Author: Mike S.
Date: 15:22:33 05/26/02
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On May 26, 2002 at 17:59:54, F. Huber wrote: >(...) and in the same folder C:\Windows\Anwendungsdaten\ >ChessBase\ChessProgram7 (replace "Anwendungdaten" with "CustomerData" or >"UserData" or whatever, I don´t know the correct name in English Windows >version). ..\Windows\Application Data\.. >So how should these config files keep track of which GUI they are belonging >to? I only have Fritz7 but I´ve heard exactly of those problems I mentioned >in some postings in other fora. It's mentioned about 3 times daily by different people, since Shredder 6 (the second program using that GUI exe) was released. IMO it's basically a "ChessBase user newbies" problem. For long-time users of those program series, the situation was similar with the previous GUI versions already. Fritz, Junior, Nimzo, Hiarcs etc. all came with the same GUI program. So we are familiar with that. The best trick probably is to use only *one* installation directory (it shouldn't matter what it's called, i.e. Fritz 7, ChProg_7), and if someone buys and second and third program which has the same GUI, uninstall the previous one, install the new one, install the latest update from the web. (Probably it's a good idea to backup the engines before, although I don't think they are uninstalled... I'm not sure.) But it's obvious that new users are not aware of that, because it's more common to see a complete package as "one program" in total. But OTOH, the GUI/engine concept is widely known, so I think at least some people will also have done it like described above, anyway. I expect this will sooner or later be improved further. The neutral naming of the GUI executeable, and the option to choose what it should identify as in the options, already are such improvements (compared to the older versions). Regards, M.Scheidl
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