Scid 4.4 released

[Marek Soszynski]

http://scid.sourceforge.net/download.html

[march 2013 ]
scid-4.4
==========

- New features:
* Added two buttons (prev/next) to navigate the history of viewed games
* Gamelist can sort games; thanks to "SortCache" by Gerd Lorscheid
* New "Best games window" with:
- show all the games matching the current position
- can sort results using up to 9 sort criteria; thanks to "SortCache" by Gerd Lorscheid
- "Find Bar" that can be hidden
- automatically computed "game rating"
- customizable layout
* Tree Window can show statistics for filtered games
* New option "Include arrow with move highlight", thanks to Mike Curtis

- Language updates:
* swedish translation (thanks to Hans Eriksson)
* german translation
* finnish translation (thanks to Timo Pirinen)

- Fixes :
* Fix: screentip fixes thanks to Mike Curtis
* Fix: base_open_failure
* Fix: wrong braces. Thanks to ASM
* Fix: Debian Bug #661091: unable to resign in xfcc.
* Fix: Do not reset the FICS password if we log in as guest
* Fix: filter was always reset by a new search (bug#661836)
* Fix: F11 to switch fullscreen in docking mode (moved open::book to F6)
* Fix: Problems with strings containing " in Index::FetchInfo
* Fix: Add icon for linux systems
* Fix typoes (Thanks to Nicky Chorley)
* Fix: "Board search" -> "Search in reference database" -> no filter set in the database switcher (thanks to Gerd Lorscheid)
* Roll-back of sc_pos analyze code, that was accidentally removed just prior to the 4.3 release.
* Fix: Filter init (thanks to Gerd Lorscheid)
* Fix: fix of ttk::bindMouseWheel in gamelist.tcl for tk < 8.5.9
* Fix: in game.cpp delete tags before NumTags = 0 (avoided memory leaks)
* Fix: sc_sort_store bug
* Fix: seg fault when filter == 0
* Fix: avoid unnecessary board flip (thanks to Larry Isaacs)
* Fix: crash caused by ::windows::switcher::Open
* Fix: "OUT OF ORDER" issue in greek translation
* Fix: Pgn window recursion
* Fix: Added greek language to script in tcl/lang
* Fix: Game::GetPartialMoveList returns moves from the actual game position
* Fix: sc_base_open open databases in fast mode by default
* Fix: ::file::openBaseAsTree unbusyCursor in case of error
* Fix: ::file::openBaseAsTree switch back to current base as soon as possible
* Fix: the logic of updateBoard is changed to improve responsiveness
* Fix: in autoscrollframe scrollbars are created on time 0, otherwise they are not hidden
* Fix: the uci command "isready" is used to improve responsiveness
* Fix: dialog box values for "finishGame" are saved in options.dat
* Fix: prevent verbose uci engines to create excessive fileevent and stuck scid
* Fix: progress bar in tree window is displayed only when necessary (to maximize speed)
* Fix: ::gbrowser::size is stored in options.dat
* Fix: createToplevel raise the window if it already exists

[menniepals]

This version rocks!

[Gusev]

Marek,

I have installed scid 4.4 (Windows 64-bit) and configured Firenzina 2.2.2 xTreme (compile #1, 03/05/2013, from http://dgusev.cs.edinboro.edu/GameDev/C ... nzina.html), and they seem to work okay together. From GitHub, you grabbed the code of a development version of the future 2.3, not yet refined/released, work in progress.

Dmitri

[menniepals]

Any package for ubuntu based systems. I tried compiling it but it failed to run.

[Marek Soszynski]

Marek,

I have installed scid 4.4 (Windows 64-bit) and configured Firenzina 2.2.2 xTreme (compile #1, 03/05/2013, from http://dgusev.cs.edinboro.edu/GameDev/C ... nzina.html), and they seem to work okay together. From GitHub, you grabbed the code of a development version of the future 2.3, not yet refined/released, work in progress.

Dmitri

Thanks Dimitri, but I'm using Linux. I'll try to wait for the refinements.

[Max]

Short feedback: Scid 4.4 compiles and run fine on my ARM based Linux system (Toshiba AC100).

Thanks,
-Max

[Alex_Schmidt]

Hi Marek,

The new "Best games window" sounds very intersting. How can I access it? I'm running the German localized Windows version of Scid 4.4 64 Bit but haven't found it yet.

Another remark: I can store the configuration in options.dat only if I run Scid as an admin. Is there a way to avoid this by using Scid as a "non-admin"?

Thanks for your support!

Alex.

[Marek Soszynski]

The new "Best games window" sounds very intersting. How can I access it? I'm running the German localized Windows version of Scid 4.4 64 Bit but haven't found it yet.

File -> Open base as tree...

(Use a base with many games.)

At the bottom left of the pane is an icon with the tooltip:
Show the best tree games list

When clicked that will show the Best Tree Games pane, whose games can be ordered.

See the Help file entry, Tree window.

What's new in 4.4 is the facility to order the games.

[menniepals]

Finally compiled. No problems.

[Ponti]

Is there a Mac .dmg file to install it ?