Where in SCID source code is engine launched?

[Steve Brown]

I haven't been able to find the file and function or method in the source code files of SCID where the UCI chess engine is actually launched. I also looked in the source of SCID vs PC. Help would be appreciated.

[unserializable]

Piqued curiosity & downloaded from https://sourceforge.net/projects/scidvspc/ file scid_vs_pc-4.26.tgz (SHA256 checksum 386eda599c058c3da9fef64de2f5248d51204e00715b94babeb09976c36afa87).

In the unpacked archive, there is in tcl/tools folder file uci.tcl with procedure uciConfig that has execution
snippet (line 532):

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    # Try to execute the analysis program:
    if {[catch {set pipe [open "| [list $cmd] $arg" "r+"]} result]} {
      if {$oldpwd != ""} { catch {cd $oldpwd} }
      if {[winfo exists .engineEdit]} {
        set parent .engineEdit
      } else {
        set parent .
      }
      # This is broke on OS X... messageBox does not draw until user destroys .splash
      tk_messageBox -title "Error starting UCI engine" \
          -icon warning -type ok -message "Unable to start program \n$cmd $arg" -parent $parent
      return
    }

For executions then, look for any uciConfig call sites. Good luck!

[Fulvio]

I haven't been able to find the file and function or method in the source code files of SCID where the UCI chess engine is actually launched.

https://github.com/benini/scid/blob/git ... m.tcl#L161