Drawing tools?

jj181 · Post by **jj181** » Fri Nov 22, 2013 10:01 am

Hello everyone

Another newbie question.

I can't find any drawing tools (arrows and highlights etc) to use for analysis and explanations in HIARCS? Is it available?

If not, is there another mac client I can use on top of HIARCS?

Thanks and regards,
JJ

Post by **Mark Uniacke** » Wed Dec 11, 2013 1:21 am

Good news is coming your way in version 1.7 shortly...

quagly · Post by **quagly** » Tue Dec 24, 2013 12:08 am

I copy the screen and paste into preview then use preview's edit feature to add arrows and highlighting. Preview will not do much more that this, but it is all I need.

Post by **Mark Uniacke** » Tue Dec 24, 2013 1:23 am

The upcoming 1.7 version allows drawing of arrows and highlighting squares within HCE - this is useful for presentations and explaining games. The prototype was used at the London Chess Classic by GMs very successfully to present the games.

Post by **Mark Uniacke** » Wed Jan 15, 2014 3:10 am

The drawing tools are now in HIARCS Chess Explorer v1.7 which is available for download.

Ton · Post by **Ton** » Wed Jan 15, 2014 11:01 pm

Found the arrows, even found the way to remove them

(Just do like you draw another arrow in the same color)

But am I correct that there's no way for highlights or arrows to appear on print?

Regards,
Ton

jobing · Post by **jobing** » Sat Jan 18, 2014 3:47 am

Bonjour (Please excuse my poor English)

I tried the arrows feature. Works well... but CRTL-ALT combination give a GREEN arrow and not a YELLOW one.
I'm on Mac.
Is this a bug ?

All the best,
Gilles

Ton · Post by **Ton** » Sat Jan 18, 2014 9:46 am

When on windows Ctrl is used, you should use Cmd on the Mac.

So Cmd-Alt will give Yellow.

Post by **Mark Uniacke** » Sat Jan 18, 2014 10:09 am

That is correct.

Unfortunately when I did the manual Ctrl was put in the Mac version. Will update the online version soon and the next update will have the correction.

byedidia · Post by **byedidia** » Sat Jan 25, 2014 10:29 pm

Where are the instructions for the drawing tools?

Ton · Post by **Ton** » Sat Jan 25, 2014 10:34 pm

byedidia wrote:Where are the instructions for the drawing tools?

Online help. On the Mac on page 18.

byedidia · Post by **byedidia** » Sat Jan 25, 2014 10:37 pm

Thanks! How do you make the arrows and highlighted squares go away if they are not the last thing you changed? (so ctrl-z is out)

Ton · Post by **Ton** » Sat Jan 25, 2014 10:40 pm

byedidia wrote:Thanks! How do you make the arrows and highlighted squares go away if they are not the last thing you changed? (so ctrl-z is out)

Repeat the action.

Alt-click on e4 turns the square green.
Alt-click e4 again removes the color

byedidia · Post by **byedidia** » Sat Jan 25, 2014 10:43 pm

Brilliant! This is a great feature.

byedidia · Post by **byedidia** » Tue Feb 25, 2014 5:57 pm

Is it possible to change the colors achieved by a given key combination?

Thanks,
Barak

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