DunnoItAll wrote:
Habsburg is the set that ICC used to create their "Smooth" set in the newest Blitzin. Extremely similar to Merida, but a few key differences.
never realised that the color is so easy on the eyes
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The color light blue for the dark squares is a GREAT choice. It IS very easy on the eyes. I have a total of four light blue choices for my board themes:
I can barely keep up with you!
I don't play on ChessCube. That's a good looking font! I was beginning to wonder if there were any decent fonts left, that are easy on the eyes, that one can play an actual game with. This one fits the bill, easily.
Eventually we might test the limits of how many fonts the program can handle. I did delete Magnetic, but other than that I think I have every other one installed... 16 now in all.
I have a ton more I could do :)
Well, everyone that you put together I'm making available on my Scid vs. PC tribute page. Years from now someone somewhere will still be downloading them, I'm sure.
hello, I've got Scid vs Mac, the OS X version. I've been in a dozen menus and googled around but I can't find the answer to the question:
how do you turn on algebraic coordinates on the side of the board?
If anyone in the thread can help me out I'd really appreciate it, thanks.
I assume it's the same as in Scid vc PC:
Options -> Game information -> Toggle coords
ah that's it, thanks!
It looks like the sound problem in 4.9 can be fixed by downloading snack2.2-win32.zip from the Support Files directory of the Files section of sourceforge and then copying the entire snack2.2 directory *as* as directory into /lib.
Restart Scid vs. PC and the sound works.
Oliver
OliverMcKenny wrote:
It looks like the sound problem in 4.9 can be fixed by...
Good work. Later this week I should be able to find time to give that a try.
I have downloaded and installed Ed's textures. But it seems like the color schemes override the textures. If I pick the first wood-grain texture, and then click on a green color scheme, the wood texture goes away.
How do the two fit together?
Oliver
They don't. They are separate. You either pick a color or a texture.
I modified the Habsburg set to give each piece a white outline and a gray "shadow" just like the Burnett set that comes with SCIDvsPC. Habsburg is one of my top two choices, and I like playing with the set in the normal flat mode and this raised and outlined format both from time to time. I call it HabsburgOS (OS=outlined and shadowed).
https://www.dropbox.com/s/16b7pny6jwipnoa/scid-HabsburgOS.txt
(incidentally, my other favorite choice is the USCF set, and I will probably make an OS version of that, too, at some point.)
Good work.
I now have 18 fonts installed. I believe I only removed one of them. (Spatial, since I didn't care for it and knew I would never use it.) So far the program hasn't had a problem loading or displaying any of them.
At some point I should rearrange them in the file, and either list them alphabetically or by my personal preference.
Berlin or Magnetic are easily my two least favorite fonts. The next two to go will probably be those two.
My three favorites are probably USCF, Fritz, and maybe Habsburg.
Yay! I discovered a really new trick today!
If you've been following along and have been installing these great fonts that DunnoItAll has been providing, then your scid.gui file, like mine, has been getting larger and larger.
And because it's so much larger, it's now harder to manage. For example, I wanted to rearrange my fonts in the scid.gui file so they would appear in alphabetical order in the "ChessBoard/Pieces" window, and I quickly realized what a chore that was!
Also, if I wanted to delete and remove a font, I would have to first search for it in the scid.gui file and then very carefully delete the data for just that font.
All of these problems can be avoided with a simple and elegant solution!
I don't know how to program in TCL at ALL... but I do have some knowledge of other programming languages. In other languages, when coding, it's possible to specify a source file and the compiler will then look at the statements (code) in that source file, and compile it as if it were in the actual code itself.
I wondered if TCL could do the same thing and I did some experimenting and by golly it most certainly can. So here's what I did.
(1) I created a new folder, from the bin folder, called piecefonts. I then carefully created an ascii text file of each of the different available fonts. Again, these are the base-64 encoded strings that make up the font. You can find the ones that come with the program in the scid.gui text file and the new ones in the links DunnoItAll has provided.
(2) I then deleted all of this font data from the scid.gui file. That's right, I deleted it completely.
(3) I then replaced the font data I deleted with the 18 "source" statements below, found inbetween the ######################:
To the program, it's the exact same thing. When the program first loads, Instead of reading the font data from the scid.gui file, it now reads the same font data from the indivdual text files in my piecefonts folder. Thats what "source piecefonts/filename.txt" does.
The advantages should be obvious. For example, let's say in the future I decide I don't want to include the magnetic font anymore. Now I can just comment out that one line statemtn from the scid.gui file as shown below:
### let's not use this one: source piecefonts/magnetic.txt ###
This reduced the size of my scid.gui file from 13,000KB to less than 4,000 KB. It neatly keeps all the fonts in order, in their own folder.
It works great. And listing them in above order lists them in alphabetical order on the screen!
it's a PGN containing 33 games.
oops after i correctly found the error, i've just realized that the error is from the PGN its self.
"SCID vs PC is a great software to learn chess.." - Fransisca .P
Lol