Scid vs. PC 4.16

[stevenaaus]

There is a fairly rare bug in ScidvsPC-4.15 UTF PGN export, (it truncates the odd game by a few moves), so i've made a new release already.

Cheers

source http://sourceforge.net/projects/scidvsp ... z/download
win32 http://sourceforge.net/projects/scidvsp ... e/download
win64 http://sourceforge.net/projects/scidvsp ... e/download
mac http://sourceforge.net/projects/scidvsp ... g/download

Changes

New Checkmate/Stalemate general search option.
Make fics premove work properly, and with promotion.
New Switcher menus to Open Tree/Best Games/Change Icon, and negate any open base filter.
The Best Games window can now be unsorted (on ELO).
Tree window has a short-display option (default is on).
New Merida1 piece set with large sizes (from Richard).
Change the colours of switcher current-base and book/book-tuning/tree next-moves.
Update all latex export features from Chess12 to the modern Skak (author Richard Ashwell) and add Latex previews for game exports (linux only).
Some Opening-Report and Player-Report fixes, and fix the Opening-Table options window.
Show the custom flag names in the statusbar.
Player Info: Add an extra 'Filter Games' hyperlink.
Tournament finder: Change behaviour re showing tournament crosstable.
Portugese update from G. Silva. Spanish update from Benigno.
Add 50 move draw detection to Phalanx and UCI computer games.
And new fics 'smoves+' command stores move-time (%emt fields).

Bug fixes
Export PGN bugfix introduced in 4.15.
Properly handle OpenRecentAsTree, if base is already opened.
'Round' wasn't getting shown in the gameinfo if Date was unset.
Annotation: try to handle zero move games.
Work aroud for occasional Tcl issue which affects piece dragging.
Game Save dialog didn't have translations.
Remove a heap of compiler warnings.
Tournament finder was showing incorrect number of games.

[whereagles]

hmmm.. does that fix the Mac Scid version, which crashes whenever I press tilde or accent keys?

[Zenmastur]

deleted!

[Vikram]

Thanks
I have a quick question
I have a collection of games i have played
So when i replay my game
I want to see my photo in the players
So how can i do that ie how can i add my pictures in player photos

[stevenaaus]

Hmm - i'll have to document this. Ed already has. See the photo section here.
http://www.edcollins.com/chess/scidvspc ... l-tips.htm
He doesnt mention - install it into Scid vs. PC's user directory. On Linux and Macs this is "$HOME/.scidvspc", or "Scid vs PC/bin" on Windows

[Vikram]

Thanks
I will try

[stevenaaus]

Those 64 base encoded files are pretty awful.
In subversion, I have added support for custom gifs. Here's the new help page.

Custom gifs can be placed into a "photos" directory beneath the user dir. They should preferably be 100x100, with the file name being the same as the player it portrays. Eg - a photo for Magnus should be placed in '$HOME/.scidvspc/photos/Carlsen, Magnus.gif'. These photos will override any found in the .spf files.

[viriathus]

Great!

[Vikram]

Awesome

[stevenaaus]

Hmmm - the latest OS X is missing some tcl packages. ScidvsMac may fail to start,
and most piece sets fail to load

The missing TkImg package is here
https://sourceforge.net/projects/scidvs ... z/download
and you can install it into ScidvsPC app with something like

tar xzf OSX_Img1.4.tgz
mv Img1.4 /Applications/ScidvsMac.app/Contents/Frameworks/Img1.4

Can anyone see other missing packages / new OS X bugs ? Cheers.