Author: Allen Lake
Date: 08:38:30 08/03/02
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On August 02, 2002 at 22:42:50, William Penn wrote: >On August 02, 2002 at 21:17:08, Allen Lake wrote: > >>On August 02, 2002 at 13:51:57, William Penn wrote: >> >>>(I'm running W98se/IE6.) >>> >>>--------------------------- >>>Scid problem with PGN files >>>--------------------------- >>> >>>Scid (version 3.3) used to work OK in its operations with PGN files. However now >>>it apparently thinks PGN files are all "read only". It will not create a PGN >>>file, nor perform manipulations which change the contents of a PGN file. Here is >>>the error message I get if I try to copy games from a Scid database "mygames" >>>into an ordinary PGN file "game.pgn"... >>> >>>Cannot copy games >>>"mygames" -> "game.pgn:" >>>the target database (game.pgn) is read-only. >>> >>>However viewing the properties of the "game.pgn" file shows that it does NOT >>>have the read-only attribute set! I tried setting then removing the read-only >>>attribute for the PGN file, but it has no effect. Also I tried reinstalling >>>Scid, and that doesn't help. >>> >>>The only thing I can think of is that I installed Chessbase 7.0 recently, and >>>PGN files on my system are now listed as "Chessbase 7.0" type files. I tried >>>changing the association of PGN files from Chessbase 7.0 to another program, >>>such as Notepad (a text editor), but that doesn't help. Also, if Chessbase 7.0 >>>is the cause of the problem, then I may be stuck up the proverbial creek. >>>Chessbase 7.0 is not listed in Control Panel under Add/Remove Programs, so I >>>have no way to remove it cleanly. >>> >>>What to do?! >>>H9 >> >> >>Are you using the "Export current game" or Export all filter games" menu items >>under the Tools menu? Each of those items has an "Export to PGN" option. >> >>Scid has always loaded PGN files as read-only and you cannot add comments, >>analyses, or annotations to games contained in a PGN file. If you want to >>manipulate the games in a PGN file, you'll need to create a new database (under >>the File menu), then import the PGN games into the new database (under the Tools >>menu). After you do what you want to the games in the new database, you can >>then export the games back to a PGN file. > > >Thanks a lot! You may have solved my problem...(?!) > >I was doing neither... I was trying to drag a Scid database icon into a PGN >database icon on the Database Switcher Window, thereby hopefully converting a >Scid database into PGN format. That's how it works in Chessbase. Why not in >Scid? > >But I always got the error message that it can't be done, because the PGN file >is "read only". There were no further explanations, therefore I naturally >assumed that something was seriously wrong with my file type properties >(attributes & associations), software installation(s), op system, or computer. >But after reading your comments, it sounds like that may just be normal fare for >Scid -- but I'm still not absolutely sure. Please verify that... Thanks! > >Later, I happened to come across the export operation by "accident" and it does >indeed export games from a Scid database into a PGN file. So that is at least a >work-around method, although more difficult than a graphic drag & drop method. > >WP The "Export" operation is the only way I know to convert games in a Scid database into a PGN file. Shane Hudson (the author of Scid) occasionally reads this forum, so maybe he'll see this thread and add the definitive answer to your question. The biggest reason that most operations are a little more difficult in Scid than they are in the commercial database products is that Scid isn't really a native Windows application. Scid is written in Tcl/Tk and is interpreted by a Windows Tcl/Tk interpreter. Therefore, if Tcl/Tk doesn't provide a facility that other Windows applications use, Scid won't be able to do it. The price of being a cross-platform application...
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