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Can we remove the side to move icon (white or black)?
It will save us some real estate.
And I'd love to be able to rename the engine name in the engine list
Thanks
I agree, remove it, make it narrower, or move it somewhere like the toolbar where it won't take up room.
Please don't remove it. It's important information, and something sorely lacking in CB. Particularly given that the last move isn't highlighted on the board (so I would have otherwise no other way of instantly knowing who has the move without looking at the notation). If you make it smaller or move it somewhere, that's cool, but don't get rid of it entirely, IMO.
It's only ~20 pixels, anyway. I don't know what the big deal is.
Can we remove the side to move icon (white or black)?
It will save us some real estate.
And I'd love to be able to rename the engine name in the engine list
Thanks
I agree, remove it, make it narrower, or move it somewhere like the toolbar where it won't take up room.
Please don't remove it. It's important information, and something sorely lacking in CB. Particularly given that the last move isn't highlighted on the board (so I would have otherwise no other way of instantly knowing who has the move without looking at the notation). If you make it smaller or move it somewhere, that's cool, but don't get rid of it entirely, IMO.
It's only ~20 pixels, anyway. I don't know what the big deal is.
jb
I agree... it should be just a setting you can enable/disable via a check box like you do for coordinates
I have an idea that you might find appealing. Programmatically you can calculate the width available for the move indicator. It is just the width of the window minus the width of the board. You could make the move indicator adjust its size based on that width available minus small margins ( up to a maximum limit of course ), and to not draw at all if that width is zero or less. Then change the code to allow the user when resizing the window to be able to resize the window down to the board size (not including the move indicator) without shrinking the board. That way the user can get the indicator size he wants just by sizing his window appropriately. I have just implemented this idea for the open source program chessX although the code has yet to be placed into the repository. It is much easier for the user to control to get the move indicator size he wants. Feel free to use my idea for HIARCS.
Mark Uniacke wrote:
Icon sizing has been requested and I will add your vote for it.
The Magic Mouse and Mac Book Pro trackpad response has been improved dramatically in v1.1. We have also changed it so scrolling of moves is only possible in the Board view. The Game Notation pane will scroll the pane.
The folder in Documents can be moved, you will need to tell HCE where it is after you do that and the Recent files will not work since they will all point to the old location.
Hi Mark. I tried moving the folder from Documents, but it does not quite work. First of all, I couldn't figure out how to tell HCE where the new location of the folder is. Also, even after I moved the folder, when I play a game against HIARCS, HCE will make a new folder under Documents and make PlayedGames.pgn under the new folder. How can I properly move the folder under Documents to the new place?
JamesCoons wrote:I have an idea that you might find appealing. Programmatically you can calculate the width available for the move indicator. It is just the width of the window minus the width of the board. You could make the move indicator adjust its size based on that width available minus small margins ( up to a maximum limit of course ), and to not draw at all if that width is zero or less. Then change the code to allow the user when resizing the window to be able to resize the window down to the board size (not including the move indicator) without shrinking the board. That way the user can get the indicator size he wants just by sizing his window appropriately. I have just implemented this idea for the open source program chessX although the code has yet to be placed into the repository. It is much easier for the user to control to get the move indicator size he wants. Feel free to use my idea for HIARCS.
Actually you won't want to draw if the width available is 8 or less as that will cause flickering when resizing inward as the board will get smaller by 8 pixels at a time.
And you probably shouldn't draw the move indicator to the right of the board in the Position Setup Dialog as it is redundant.
Mark Uniacke wrote:While you can move the folder and the contents, the PlayedGames database is always saved there.
You can save and read databases from other locations but HCE expects to find the PlayedGames database in Documents/HIARCS Chess/Databases
OK. So, only way I can get away with making a folder under Documents is not to play against HIARCS... I guess I can still use HCE as a database program... Thanks for the reply anyway.
I think it would be useful if it was possible to make the first move of a particular analysis line, in the Analysis Explorer pane, by clicking on the first move or any move (not the evaluation and depth value) of that particular analysis line.
It is possible to add the move with a variation when clicking the eval/depth as you elluded to, adding just the first move might be useful in multi-pv lines. When lines = 1 the space bar will have that effect since it adds the best move considered by the engine.
Mark Uniacke wrote:It is possible to add the move with a variation when clicking the eval/depth as you elluded to, adding just the first move might be useful in multi-pv lines. When lines = 1 the space bar will have that effect since it adds the best move considered by the engine.
Yes.
My idea was to use clicking in the same way for the single-pv line and multi-pv lines cases.
In HCE for Mac the same font is used for the Game Notation pane and for printing.
I'd like to be able to set the Game Notation (screen) font to 15pt, and the printing font to 12pt. Printing at 15pt is a waste of paper, and viewing the Game Notation at 12pt is unnecessarily hard on the eyes...
I have another question regarding moving the HIARCS Chess folder from Documents. After moving the HIARCS Chess folder from Documents, when I play against computer, the computer takes a lot of time playing openings. For example, computer took 13 seconds playing 1.Nf3, which used to be played instantly before I moved the folder. When I put back the HIARCS Chess folder, the computer again starts to play the opening instantly. So, I suspect that I need to specify some folder or a file for the computer to refer to the opening when I move the HIARCS folder, but I cannot figure out how. Thanks.
