Scid 4.6.4 vs 4.6.2

[Amstaff]

Hello to upgrade to 4.6.4 for win 32 do I just download the folder and copy over the 4.6.2 files. I don't see an installer for 4.6.4.
Also I cannot find the sort tab to sort the games in the database.
Many thanks in advance for help.
Gerald

[Norbert Raimund Leisner]

Hello Armstaff,

I cannot recognize a Windows 32-bit binary of Svid 4.6.4.
I am using Scid 4.6.4 x64 version with Windows 7 SP1 x64.

Search > using search file

cf. help menu > index (alphabetical) > sorting a database

Sorting a database

The sorting function sorts all games in a database. You can select a number of sort criteria. When two games are equal according to the the first criteria, they are sorted using the second criteria, and so on.

Sort criteria

The available sorting criteria are:

Date (oldest games first)
Year (same as date, but using the year only)
Event name
Site name
Country (last 3 letters of Site name)
Round name
White name
Rating (average of White and Black ratings, highest first)
Black name
Result (White wins, then draws, then Black wins)
Length (number of full moves in the game)
ECO (the Encyclopedia of Chess Openings code)
Sort results

When you sort a Scid database that is not read-only, the sort results are saved so the order of games in the database is permanently changed. If you want to the sort results to be temporary, make the database read-only first using the File: Read-only menu command.

When you sort a database that is read-only or is actually a PGN file, the sort results cannot be saved so the sorted order of games will be lost when the file is closed.

Note that sorting a database resets the search filter to contain all games.

Important note about sorting databases:

When a database is sorted, the index file is altered but the game file is not changed. This means sorting a database will leave the game file records in a scrambled order relative to the index file. This can really slow down tree, position and material/pattern searches, so you should reorder the game file by compacting it after sorting the database to maintain good search performance.

(Updated: Scid 2.5, June 2001)

By the way: ChessDB 3.6.19 beta 1 and Scid vs.PC 4.16
contain this feature too.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/chessdb/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/scidvspc/


For further questions, you can contact directly their authors
via SourceForge after a free registration.

https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users is another option.

Best wishes,
Norbert

[Norbert Raimund Leisner]

Thanks,
the file was indeed missing, I have uploaded it again:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/scid/fi ... p/download

I should also thank you for making me notice that the help is obsolete.
Sorting has been improved (there are now no performance drawbacks) and it is very simple: in the "Game List" window just double click on the column header.
The online wiki is probably the best source for help:
https://sourceforge.net/p/scid/wiki/search/?q=sort

Regards,
Fulvio Benini

[Norbert Raimund Leisner]

Well previous Scid versions for Windows had missing files too - but I copied these applications just from ChessDB http://chessdb.sourceforge.net/ with ChessDBlet
This task can be easily accomplished:

You can view two different devices simultaneously with Free Commander 2016 XE in contrast to Windows Explorer-

http://www.computerbild.de/download/Fre ... -8206.html

Chip is a computer magazine (online) in Germany.

Norbert

[Norbert Raimund Leisner]

other download-link of Free Commander XE 2016
http://www.chip.de/downloads/freeComman ... 14841.html