Author: William Penn
Date: 20:59:35 09/30/03
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On September 30, 2003 at 09:07:27, William Penn wrote: >On September 30, 2003 at 06:59:38, Miho King wrote: > >>On September 29, 2003 at 21:44:47, William Penn wrote: >> >>>On September 29, 2003 at 12:56:46, Miho King wrote: >>> >>>>Try to delete shredder.plr from engines directory instead of reinstalling. >>> >>>Thanks for the suggestion. >>>Do you know what is the function of that file? >>>And why would deleting it help? >>>WP >> >> >>This is learning file. This is the only diference between newly installed >>shredder and shredder which played some games (or analyzed positions). So it >>should help you. You have to delete this file while chess program is down. > >Thanks. I tried it and see that the file is recreated. I saved the original just >in case, but the replacement seems to work OK. > >However that doesn't fix some of the bugs that I'm continuing to see with the >Shredder 7 GUI. For example, a bug in the Notation pane... > >If I am running an Infinite Analysis with the Scoresheet tab selected, then I >click on the Notation tab, the GUI may spontaneously reset the clock to zero >(0:00:00), and the analysis begins again at the start (0:00:00). This doesn't >always happen, just sometimes, but it can ruin a long analysis of many hours >which I didn't wish to terminate!? I have seen this bug in most of my >installations of this GUI, but not in all installations. Unfortunately it is >present in my latest installation. > >This suggests that the installation program from the CD makes a slightly >different installation each time, based on some unknown factors. I have always >used the "Typical" setup. Maybe I should try the "Custom" setup instead. I know >that sometimes installers work better that way, but haven't tried it with this >one. > >Or perhaps my anti-virus software (Norton) or firewall (Kerio) are interfering. >I haven't tried disabling the Norton software before the installation, but I >should. I will try that next, now... > >And because the Shredder 7 GUI has an internet/server connection possibility, my >Kerio Personal Firewall could be interfering. For example if I close the main >program it returns to the dialog box where I can select either Play Shredder or >Playchess.com. If I then click on Playchess.com, my firewall may ask whether I >really want to allow this to happen. But again, this doesn't always happen, only >sometimes. Thus I am continuing to see erratic, unpredictable behaviour when >using this GUI. It's a mystery. >WP The bug in the notation pane may be because I had opened an "Extra Book Pane". That removes the Openings Book tab in the Notation Pane. That may be buggy. I've refrained from opening an "Extra Book Pane" in my last installation of Shredder 7, and so far I haven't seen the bug mentioned above. That's probably it because the Fritz GUI has always been buggy when making various changes in the chessboard window. For example it wouldn't retain "plain color" (custom defined) chessboards/pieces until the very last update on March 5 2003. There are other longstanding bugs still remaining in the Fritz/Shredder/Hiarcs GUI. I guess they just don't test their software very thoroughly!? WP
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