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Subject: Re: Chester1 renamed to Chesty and one feature added

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 08:47:57 04/17/02

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On April 17, 2002 at 11:30:20, Allen Lake wrote:

>On April 17, 2002 at 10:05:01, Roy Eassa wrote:
>
>
>>I have not abandoned re-doing it in Tcl/Tk.  The DLL problems people are
>>apparently having now raises the priority of doing it in SOMETHING that does not
>>require any special DLLs (DLLs are the bane of my existence; Microsoft even
>>started using them in their Mac apps, where DLLs previously did not exist!).
>>
>
>When you decide to go ahead with the TCL version, take a good look at the
>analysis.tcl file for Shane Hudson's Scid database program.  The engine analysis
>functionality for Scid seems very similar to what you are trying to do with
>Chest -- spawn a separate application, feed it data, and capture and display the
>output from the program.



Thank you for that EXTREMELY useful input!



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