Scid vs. PC Changelog

What's new in Scid vs. PC 4.8

• General:
• Drag and Drop file open(s) on Windows and Unix
• Custom background images (jpegs, gifs and pngs)
• Random sort pgn feature.
• Crosstable now have +/-/= subtotals
• and Player Stats format changed from +/=/- to +/-/=).
• General PGN search has ignore case option
• Board Search gets it's combobox updated when DBs are opened and closed.
• Save game before PGN Import
• Save game: enable the use of 'prev game tags' for existing games. This allows easy addition of the same tags to consecutive existing games.
• Remove the 'Scid: ' prefix from several window titles
• Update some translations
• Show Linux version/distro in the startup window.
• Add a patch to make toolbar buttons raise only (instead of toggle open/shut)
• Add a patch for Chess960 support (from Ben Hague).
• Analysis:
• UCI: properly handle UCI buttons. Previously they were invoked at every engine restart.
• Right clicking 'Add Var' button adds Engine Score comment only.
• Replace ponder on/off with hard/easy for xboard engines
• Super quick engine infos can happen before Scid's PV is inited properly. So we have to default to PV = 1
• Allow xboard engines to use lowercase 'b' for bishop promotion (eg a7b8b)
• Don't send an erroneous 'isready' (with 'uci') to quiet analysis engines
• Right clicking the widget allows to disable line wrapping
• Don't add a line to analysis history if moves are null
• Tree:
• Move ECO stats to the end of line.
• Several Mask refinements - notably Searches are much more readable and previously clicking on searched lines didn't work
• Fix up minor bugs about castling moves (OO, O-O, O-O-O)
• Computer Tournament:
• Computer Tournament Book feature
• Dont' kill tournament if engine crashes.
• Only pack the first 10 engine combos (which allows for big tournaments)
• Fix up Xboard time/move command order. Xboard engines should behave much better.
• Various other tweaks
• Gamelist:
• Show altered games in red.
• Control-wheelmouse scrolls up/down one page.
• Switcher now has text on two lines (if icons are shown).
• FICS:
• Digital clocks now (optionally) on the main board
• Better integration of FICS "examine" and "observe" features
• FICS has it's own options menu
• bind F9 to xtell instead of tell.
• Change the move.wav sound from tick-tock to a short click.
• OS X:
• Filter graph bugfix
• Material Search properly shows the little buttons
• Copy and Paste text from disabled OSX text widgets (engines, help, gameinfo)
• Buttons 2 and 3 are swapped around
• General Bugs:
• Work arounds for wish 8.5.12 and 8.5.8 issues
• Analysis logs can badly break autoscroll, so use normal frames and scrollbars.
• Handle PGN parsing of unspecified promotions (b8 becomes b8=Q , for eg).