Author: Victor Zakharov
Date: 13:07:52 08/28/01
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>>On August 28, 2001 at 12:04:09, Slater Wold wrote: >> >>>Also, whenever using a UCI engine, I cannot kibitz the eval to ICC. I am unsure >>>if you are aware of this either. Ok, I am notified. >Could you please encourage your beta-testers to test this ICC interface when >playing with an engine before you make a new path. There is more bug's in there >but I have not time to give a full bug report. I tried to use it 'as it is' but >had to switch back to Winboard after a few games. Beside for the missing inline >comment there also was a 'hang' in one game (the program and ICC connection was >not hanging) when I tried to change som hello message. The time control came up >with wrong times on the next game an nothing else happend. Try to be more concrete. What was the engine when you faced with the problem? And could you reproduce one of them. Surely it is better to send e-mail to me with detailes. This forum is not for technical problems discussing. CA6 is very complex system and even ten beta testers are unable to test all modes with all options. Don't forget that any changes demand repeitive testing. Possibly Microsoft with it's resources is able to provide scientific testing, but not a chess software company. And when a thousand of users receives the program every has a chance to catch a problem. And every user has his point of view what is the main thing in the program. And it is very dificult to provide equal glance for everyone in a moment. I am only sure that all principal modes are tested and proven. The latest problem was connected that UCI engines were not stable on ICC. All was Ok on developer computers. But every user computer has some peculiarities and we were due to consider UCI code once more and provide it with more stability. >Also this Web export future has some strange look. >In DHTML export no matter if you set the chess symbols to not CA-font, it is >coming up as CA font (cryptical letter) in comments. >It is not easy eiter to get a nice look if you have both comments and variations >in the game. >If you have variations in the game and turn this of in print option, it still >shows this in between characters ([ ; ] etc.). This is known and easy to fix. >Another question > >Since your frequently use of this CA-fonts in WEB export, it's also used on the >Convekta's site. Is it allowed to have this font as download or is the web >output only supposed to be viewed by CA users? I don't see a problem if CA user will provide fonts for downloading from his/her Web page created by Chess Assistant. Surely fonts are not allowed to distribute with commercial products without Convekta permission. >Please take your time with the next patch so you could get rid of this bug's, >but not so long as the CA 5.2 is taking (Isn't it 15 month since it was first >annonced). We will make all possbile to satisfy all the users with our product. Beleive me it is not simple, but inspiration from satisfied users is much more valuable. With best regards, Victor
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