Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 09:02:50 04/05/02
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Dan, you'll get no argument from me. If you want to analyze several positions or do other advanced things, the CLI or Batch approach is probably most efficient. The instance I was referring to was very specific (but I suspect very common): the user is running Windows (IE/Netscape/Opera...) and reading a web page and sees an EPD of a mate puzzle. He wants to quickly and easily give that position to Chest. It's that simple. I imagine a tool whereby the user copies the EPD string to the clipboard, pastes it into that tool, and hits a button or key. Quick and easy for the user AND probably not very difficult for a programmer to create. So I asked whether such a thing existed. If yes, I wish to use it. If no, perhaps I will create it -- would people be interested? I was surprised by the responses that seemed to say that wishing for such a tool is dumb or silly or crazy. Yet I sincerely believe it would allow more people to use Chest who otherwise would not use it, and it wouldn't be too hard to create. (Well, maybe it would be difficult for a bonehead like me, but I know there are very talented programmers who read this forum...) On April 05, 2002 at 10:45:31, Dan Andersson wrote: >The problem is that you are mixing a few different kinds of computing paradigms >here. Due to the natures of the OS and the program. The GUI, the CLI, Batch >processing and REPL. What you want is a GUI that interfaces to a CLI. And >emulates a REPL on a Batch processor. It's quite a stretch and thats the source >of the percieved inefficiencies. And as for efficiency. If you want to analyze a >heap of positions the CLI will be just as fast as the GUI version. AFAIK, it >has been shown that a keyboard based command inteface is usually faster than a >GUI one. But the GUI will be percieved as being faster. YMMV. > >GUI = graphical user interface >CLI = command line interface >REPL = read eval print loop >Batch = batch processing > >MvH Dan Andersson
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