SCID vs PC

How do these look?  One is the hammer and the other is scales (for trial).

ScidvsPC 4.21 releases/candidates are up http://scidvspc.sourceforge.net/#toc3

Hello, @stevenaaus. First, thank you for developing/maintaining the SCID program. I love using it!

Second, I have a SCIDvsMAC question for you, if you have time. After upgrading to Catalina and downloading the most up-to-date SCIDvsMAC dmg, the "sounds" are not working for me. When I click Options > Sounds, I see the message "SCID could not find the Snack audio package at startup. Sound is disabled." Do you know how I can fix this?

Try going to the menu: Options → Sounds, and direct it to the folder: Scid vs PC-4.20\bin\sounds

Thanks @JogoReal. Unfortunately changing the path/location of the Sounds folder doesn't resolve the issue. I still receive the message: "Scid could not find the Snack audio package at startup. Sound is disabled." 

For additional context, I'm using Scid vs. Mac version 4.21.

Using on Mojave and version4.21 I'm not having this issue.  So wondering if it's only Catalina related or how it was installed.  

Also when you go to Options>Sounds does it find the 31 files, or do you get that error immediately?

You may try to delete and reinstall.

Hmm - there's no 64 bit snack package. I cant find or compile one off-hand at the moment. Tcl sound is kindof broken anyway afaics but ill see if i can find a package,

Archlinux AUR provides patches for snack, and apparently it can be compiled for x64 architecture.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/snack/

I was able to build and install it from AUR for an existing Manjaro desktop in less than 2 minutes. The whole procedure was trivial, using an AUR helper script. Can you look at the provided patches?

Ok, cheers. That deprecated functions patch did the trick.

Suprisingly, it seems to work quite well for me on El Capitan - only drops the first sound on some occasions - which is better than i ever had it on linux.

EDIT hmm - no - it's kindof broken still. I wonder if it's some internal snack buffering issue. Sorry, but i'm never looking at fixing it.

There are short instructions in the tarball.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/scidvspc/files/support%20files/snack2.2.10.macos.x64.tgz/download

Well... Last version of snack is more than ten years old. Its remarkable that it sort of works, in the first place

That did the trick! Thanks very much for your help, stevenaaus and pfren.

scidvspc-4.21 on debian (buster).

No longer able to right-click in the engine analysis window to wrap lines.  Works in version 4.20, but not the latest.  Anyone know how to wrap analysis lines in 4.21?

Lines are so extense... Too extense for the use we give to them. If you wrap them you will get fewer lines... Or, I am not understanding it correctly?

It is now middle button.

Right button interferes with text copy context menu on windows.

Bugs with Scidvspc 4.21, Windows 10

Control B - opens the book, not the set up board.

Control V - fails to paste FEN.

Request :

In Custom Flag in maintainance window : only 8 letters can be typed, Because of which Words will be incomplete. Can it be modified.

Thanks.  

And thank you for the great program.

The control key bindings are case specific. V = v + shift

OK.

Got it.

Thank you

I guess you could do a general search on the player's name and also on the ECO code for a King's Gambit (I think it's C30 to C39), according to ScidvsPC.