Author: John Merlino
Date: 13:25:05 09/07/00
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On September 07, 2000 at 14:52:57, James wrote: >Thx for responding, too bad for icc play that things are that way though. 5500 >could setup without the moves, and had no pictures with the personalities. >Starting with 6000 changing a component with a personality became unwieldy and >slow during a game as to be impractable. The additional personality pictures >made even changing personalities slower. 7000 lost the ability to size cm to l/2 >screensize or less. Manual play with side by side boards is easier. 7000 also >lost panel independence of the previous versions < ie, the eval strip could be >completely detached from the chessboard>. If possible, would like to see a >optional setup of 8000 to return the lost options, at the complete cost of the >additions < the larger the prog, the more resources it hogs, and the slower it >performs> Thx again 1) You can DEFINITELY change the size of the main window to be less than 1/2 the screen size (unless you are running in 640x480), as the minimum size of the main window is 320x280. 2) The "eval strip" (I assume you mean the "Thinking Lines" window here) is, as all other child window are, "detachable" from the main window. You can move it so it is not even within the boundary of the main window. 3) More resources does not NECESSARILY mean a slower program. It just means that it requires more memory to run. If your machine can handle all of the memory requirements without having to cache to the hard disk, then, for the most part, there will be no noticeable slowdown. The problem comes into how OFTEN these resources are needed, and that depends on what you are doing at the time. If you are just letting the engines do their thing, and not fiddling with windows or whatever, then the memory requirement is a non-issue. jm
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