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Scid vs. PC Changelog

What's new in Scid vs. PC 4.10

Nov 28, 2013
  • When sorting databases, don't reset filter and remember current game/gamestate
  • Game history menu
  • Implement (and bugfix) SCID's more comprehensive NAG framework
  • Change a couple of field orders in the gamelist, remember field widths, and remove the icon context menus from the switcher (middle click now toggles show/hide the database icons)
  • FICS: Allow use of alternative URLs (used during FICS outage) and other minor tweaks
  • Window focus improvements (mainly for MS Windows and OS X)
  • Computer Tournament: add 'Engine Scores as comments' option, and make some minor global/:: var changes
  • Add Book Tuning to dockable windows
  • Automatically flip board (if applicable) in game browser and analysis miniboards
  • When diffing twin games, ignore newlines in the comments, which make diffing impossible
  • Add undo points for user generated addNag events
  • Bookmarks: add a few key bindings (delete/up/down), and shuffle the gamelist bookmark button up one row
  • Drag and drop hardening
  • Windows 7 bugfix: PGN export and Progress bars weren't working in undocked mode
  • Translation framework updates. Overhaul Dutch translation, and remove (broken) Russian one
  • Convert braces '{', '}' to '(',')' when exporting PGN comments (against PGN standard). Also tweak various PGN help topics

New in Scid vs. PC 4.9 (Apr 30, 2013)

  • Window Docking feature - Different windows are docked/restored than Scid. Five layout slots with three custom layouts. Bug-fixes. F11 for fullscreen. Tcl-8.6.0 may have issues. Selectable Ttk themes (also for Gamelist).
  • General:
  • Move search feature (eg 'h6 Bxh6')
  • UCI: replace 'position fen ...' with 'position startpos moves ...' for general analysis
  • Better Twin Games Checker - highlights missing comments and variations in duplicate games
  • Windows has a MSVC makefile (Makefile.vc) and includes Stockfish 2.31 (JA legacy build)
  • Fix windows stack problem (hopefully).
  • Text Find widgets in help, crosstable, engine logs
  • Game Save dialog remembers any custom tags you add to a game, making them easy to recall
  • Restore drawing arrows and marks from the main board (also used by FICS premove)
  • Arrow length/widths configurable via comment editor
  • PGN Figurines now display in bold, and a different font, if applicable (from Gregor)
  • Some new board textures (from Ed Collins)
  • Automatically save "bitmaps" directory when exporting to HTML
  • Player info window shows Photos in a scrollable canvas insead of stuck in top right corner
  • Delete key deletes moves in game/variation after the current move
  • Score Graphs are now bargraphs instead of lines
  • Bind statusbar->middle button to 'switch base'
  • FICS context menu, game offers now show more information, and premove
  • FICS: deiconify/raise window when game starts (nodock mode only)
  • FICS: stop clock when we make a move (even though we may not have acknowledgemnt from FICS about move)
  • FICS: 'upload' command for uploading local games to FICS examine mode
  • Allow the Name editor to glob '*' for Site, Event and Round fields (but not for 'All Games', too dangerous when used by mistake)
  • The material board can display *all* taken pieces
  • Gamelist button rows can be hidden by right-clicking the list, and it has a game save icon
  • Right click V+ button adds the second variation
  • Windows analysis engines no longer run at low priority
  • When annotating the score on blunders, show the main score first, var second (eg: +1.00 / +2.50)
  • Add programmers reference to the help contents/online doc
  • Bind space-bar to engine start/stop
  • Update twic2scid.py script
  • Remember if .board is flipped for each open base
  • Bugfixes:
  • Make the database switcher icons/frames get smaller if they are cramped (so we can see them all)
  • Half fix UCI game (sergame.tcl) time issues
  • Corrospondence Chess now works
  • Tree Mask bugfix: Checks couldnt be added to mask
  • Fix Tree 'Fill cache with game/base' feature
  • Try to handle shortened FENs with Paste FEN
  • Crosstable: 'Set Filter' now includes deleted games if +deleted
  • Crosstable: handle games with a year-only date differently for crosstable purposes (Instead of +/-3 months, match any other games in the calender year
  • FICS: Stop clocks after a takeback request from opponent
  • FICS: Games with move lengths greater than 1:00:00 would break parse
  • Add missing FICSLogin translation.
  • New windows Phalanx build. It works better under win7, but has analysis polling issues
  • OS X: pad out flag buttons in Header search
  • base_open_failure was erroneously closing wrong base
  • Windows Preview HTML for Reports is fixed

New in Scid vs. PC 4.7 (Feb 15, 2012)

  • Tree: Add coloured bargraphs representing win/draw/loss (and remove the old tree graph)
  • Tablebases: Make best tablebase moves clickable.
  • Tablebases: tidy up config , main window and help items.
  • FICs: Can now play and watch (observe) multiple games at the same time.
  • FICS: Support loading old/interupted games for analysis (using 'smoves' command)
  • FICs: Add an Abort button. Other minor fixes.
  • Serious Game overhaul (though still has minor issues) Add pause, resume features and mate, game drawn dialogs.
  • Computer Tournament: Add 'first engine only' feature for testing a single engine against others.
  • Enable material difference display for game browser and fics observerd games
  • Analysis: View engine logs from within Scid, and can also disable logging.
  • Analysis no longer word wraps, and uses fixed font.
  • Analysis: add a xboard/uci protocol column to the engine list.
  • Include updates to SCID's spellchk.c, improving the ELO add-ratings feature.
  • Update spelling.ssp file to Jan 2012, and include with windows
  • Player info: clicking FIDE ID opens relevant url.
  • New feature: 'Search-Filter to Last Move'. All filter games will load at the last move (end of game).
  • Refine the Calculation of Variation (Stoyko Exercise) feature and Help.
  • Toolbar has a 'book window' icon.
  • Tweak PGN context menu: reorder the Strip/Delete move items.
  • Gamelist: replace the Negate button with a Select button.
  • Tree: Include a patch for embedding the Best Games into the Tree window.
  • Analysis: Revert Lock engine changes. Previously, lock engine would also start Trial Mode
  • Bugfixes:
  • Importing PGN, check that Promotion Moves are long enough (otherwise can segfault).
  • Document CCRL pgn round name problem, and handle errors better when Name limits hit.
  • FICS: remove non-ascii chars from commands if using timeseal.
  • Gamelist: To display unusual characters, convert to unicode before displaying games.
  • Sync html bitmaps with SCID.
  • Book: Only do the second book move lookup if we have too. (slight performance boost)
  • EPD: Quick fix for epd analysis annotation bug..
  • Hungarian, Swedish and Potugese Spanish were broken if Piece translation enabled (which was default). Fixed.
  • Fix up Tacgame score-isn't-updated bug

New in Scid vs. PC 4.5 (Aug 9, 2011)

  • The main new features are Chess Figurines in the PGN window and an updated computer tournament with per-game time control, clocks, and adjudication buttons.
  • Otherwise, the Mac OS X package has been significantly improved, and there are bugfixes and a few little touches like typing "OO" for castling.
  • The Game List remembers its view when switching between bases.

New in Scid vs. PC 4.3 (Feb 28, 2011)

  • Clickable Variation arrows
  • Paste Variation feature
  • Database Switcher has been moved to the Gamelist Widget (and has some new icons)
  • Gamelist can now perform logical ANDs in the search widget using "+", and include the date
  • Gamelist now has remove-above and remove-below buttons.
  • FICs improvements, including a ping feature to indicate network health (*nix only), and player communications are saved as PGN comments.
  • FICs bug-fix: don't automatically accept rematches
  • FICs "Opponent Info" button
  • New Toolbar buttons: "Load First Game" , "Load Last Game"
  • Bookmark Widget has been overhauled
  • Analysis Engine's move history doesn't get spammed by "Mate in 1" (for eg) messages
  • An engine can now be run in the Statusbar
  • Allow engines to be reordered
  • Simplify the Bestgames Widget : Remove the PGN pane, nice-ify the widget, and enable graph and best widgets to remember size.
  • Several interface speed-ups from Fulvio
  • Other SCID C++ changes from Gerd and Fulvio, including "Don't decode games when copying games"
  • Some Tree Search optimisations from SCID
  • Sort by number of Variations and Comments from Gerd
  • Help Widget has a search entrybox
  • Help Widget font size (and Pgn Window) can be easily increased by control+wheelmouse
  • When pasting FEN directly, do a castling sanity check.
  • Bugfix: When user starts scidvspc for the first time, clipbase is left closed
  • Browser widget has a nicer button bar, and windows wheel-mouse bindings
  • Overhaul the Edit Menus
  • Numerous GUI fixes
  • Revert PlayerInfo to old format, but add a "Won Drawn Lost" header.
  • Tweak crosstable knock-out format

New in Scid vs. PC 4.1 (Oct 11, 2010)

  • Quite a few FICs tweaks, including new help pages and D.O.S. attack fixes
  • Numerous Gamelist improvements (see below)
  • Tree widget improvements: next move is highlighted, main filter is now independant of Tree filter, wheel mouse bindings.
  • Tactics feature fixed up: Renamed "Puzzle" , and Problem Solutions can now be browsed in-game
  • Analysis window "add variation" now *appends* variations if at var end
  • Comment Editor has undo and redo bindings
  • Main board grid colour can be changed
  • Setup board can rotate and flip the board
  • Clicking on moves in the gameinfo area shows Comment Editor
  • Better window raising/focusing
  • Kill analysis window after batch annotations
  • New marble tile theme and colour themes
  • Some menu re-ordering
  • Recent Files menu is basename only
  • Remove Control+V game paste binding .... too dangerous
  • Further refinements of Switcher widget and Icons
  • ttk comboboxes are no longer grey
  • Analysis widget scrolling will pause to allow backwards review
  • Splash widget changes, and remove pop-up for missing Bases and Book directories
  • Rewritten Help items
  • Gamelist improvements:
  • Field order rearranged
  • Columns now sort in both directions, with arrow depicting direction
  • Deleting items works better
  • Can be sorted by ELO
  • Draws sorted alongside no-result
  • Delete and Compact buttons disable better
  • Bugfixes -
  • Twinchecker PGN text diff-ing was sometimes broken
  • Phalanx observes tournament feature time control
  • Fix "Show Suggested Move" feature
  • Fix occasionaly issue with erroneously selecting squares, then being unable to reselect them
  • Ignore crafty's resignations which caused X-window flash events
  • No context menu if dragging a piece
  • RobboLito (and others ?) had uppercase piece promotion which occasionally broke
  • "Show Suggested Move" was broken
  • Gamelist sometimes left off the last or first item
  • Widget tidies -
  • Analysis engine config widget
  • Maintenance tweaks
  • Game save widget made better
  • Parent Date widget
  • Delete twins
  • Database Switcher changes, including new icons
  • Finder now has three columns (and other changes)
  • Player finder + Tournament Finder sub-widgets alligned
  • Statistics window restructured

New in Scid vs. PC 4.0 (Jul 3, 2010)

  • Computer Chess tournament feature
  • The Gamelist widget has been rewritten to work with huge databases. Other new features include a case insensitive search, deleted items are greyed out, and there's a "Compact" button to empty trash with.
  • Add a background colour option that applies to many text widgets, including gameinfo, pgn window and help window
  • Restructured the analysis widgets, putting toolbar on top, tiny board at bottom, tweaking toolbar icons and reparenting analysis died error dialog
  • Update the book and book-tuning windows (untested, from SCID)
  • Add a new logo, and some wm title tweaks
  • Board Screenshot feature (Control+F12)
  • Bind mouse wheel to move progression (and widget resize) for the little browser windows
  • Change all comboboxes to ttk::combobox
  • Allow xboard lowercase promotion moves (eg while g7g8Q always worked, g7g8q previously failed)
  • Enable hovering over toolbar help pop-ups
  • Fix up analysis widget "lock to position" feature
  • All analysis windows can now use annotation, and autoplay feature
  • Bind F4 to start another analysis window
  • Various C fixes from SCID
  • Sync the tools::connect-hardware feature with SCID (untested)
  • When using the setup board widget, do a sanity check about the FEN's castling field
  • Some minor version fixes anticipating tcl8.6
  • Small bugfix: variation pop-up could previously throw errors if moving through movs fast
  • F1 *toggles* help window
  • Remove space-only lines from project - they mess up vim's paragraph traversal feature
  • Fics "withdraws offer" fix
  • Toolbar icons tweak
  • Allow databses to have "." in their name
  • Tactical Game stores game result
  • Set Game Info widget includes Site field
  • Small "update idletasks" in main.tcl improves main board responsiveness
  • Fix up the history limit of combobox-es (especially the setup board FEN combo)
  • UCI kludges for Prodeo and Rybka from SCID (untested)
  • Turn off craftys egtb (end game tablebook) for the analysis widget
  • Comment editor bugfix - unbind left/right from main board
  • Fix for matsig.cpp overflow (unapplied? , untested)
  • Key binding for first/last game is now Control+Home/End instead of Control+Shift+Up/Down
  • Perform a db refresh after importing PGN file(s)

New in Scid vs. PC 3.6.26.9 (Apr 19, 2010)

  • Added a random pawns feature to tacgame
  • Added magnetic chess pieces
  • _Some_ tcl speed optimisations to the main board and material board (and htext.tcl)
  • Move the crosstable menu item from "tools" to "windows"
  • Centralise procedures called when switching between DBs
  • Crosstable: make options persistant, tweak menus, fix html export blank fields
  • Crosstable: allow spelling.ssp to match initalized christian names, include a Font button, fix parenting
  • Change the toplevel "wm title" to show "White v. Black database]"
  • Fics: Make a new Received Offers dialog which allows for proper handling of multiple challenges
  • Fics: Tweak the Make Offer dialog
  • Fics: update help files, and add a Font button
  • Fics: some fixes from SCID
  • Move the side-to-move indicator to left of main board
  • Make font dialogs resizable, add a "default" feature, a new "fixed" default, and small overhaul (hard work!)
  • (Add a "Font" button to the help and crosstable widgets)
  • Fix focus issues with the Set Game Info widget
  • Reorganise Scid start-up (includes reading font info  before  drawing splash widget, removing unused old logo and start-up checks)
  • Remove quite a few "-background white" statements from all over (to allow for custom coloured backgrounds in future)
  • Fix up padding issues with the analysis widget's small text widget
  • Player Info got a fair bit of tweaking - nicer info display (spellchk.cpp, tkscid.cpp) with full country names, and tcl widget tweaked too
  • Upgrade to toga 131
  • Remove pocket and help directories
  • Changed a heap of menus (for example) PGN::File is now PGN::PGN, to avoid confusion with the Scid::File menu
  • Player Report configuration widget reniced.
  • Menu name and key-bindings changes for PGN and FEN import
  • Swapped key bindings for "Goto Move Number" (now ctrl+g) and "Goto Game Number" (now ctrl+u)
  • Include the highlight previous move feature from SCID (and add a context menu)
  • (Promise to) fix the Gamelist widget , and add a Comp vs Comp feature for next release

New in Scid vs. PC 3.6.26.8 (Dec 20, 2009)

  • Just lots of help menu nice-ities i've added at the last minute.

New in Scid vs. PC 3.6.26.7 (Oct 26, 2009)

  • This is basically a maintenance release.
  • The fix login code works again.
  • The issue with material widget outline was removed.
  • A new Windows zip file was made.
  • There's also a few other minor changes.

New in Scid vs. PC 3.6.26.6 (Aug 25, 2009)

  • Phalanx's illegal castling is no more. Changes to the Setup board and Toolbar configuration widgets, and heaps of other stuff. Whew!
  • At the chess club... I'm not playing too badly. Mike plays a very solid, measured game, but maybe I've found his measure now. Gunnar still amazes me with his attacking chess though. Last week he was back after a two week hospital stay, but still managed a fairly effortless simultaneous against Mike and myself.

New in Scid vs. PC 3.6.26.3 (Jun 25, 2009)

  • Replaced most all of the old colour schemes and tiles.
  • New Usual and Maya pieces.
  • Rewrote (again) the option->chessboard->board_style widget. Changes are now made dynamically to the main board.
  • Tweaked the pgn save menu, included a "Save Pgn" menu item in the "File" menu, and other pgn window bindings.
  • Added a Fics autoflag option (for logging in as guest), and other Fics tweaks.
  • Don't allow null entry of "Elo" field in analysis engine customisation.