Author: William Penn
Date: 05:26:33 01/15/05
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On January 14, 2005 at 12:00:10, William Penn wrote: >On January 14, 2005 at 00:26:46, William Penn wrote: > >>The prior version worked OK with font selection. At least it accepted whatever >>fonts you selected, no problems in that regard. However this new one from >>January 2005 is screwed up. If you select one font, and you may get a different >>one than you selected. Looks like the font associations are scrambled somehow. >>And some fonts won't work at all! I'm mainly talking about selecting the font in >>the engines pane, or in the book pane. The font is also different in the dialog >>box that comes up when you replace a game, and I don't see any way to change it. >>WP > >Sorry, my mistake, the prior version of the GUI did NOT work OK with font >selection!!! > >I've now done quite a bit of testing, including several repairs and >reinstallations of the 3 different release versions of the gui8 (original Dec'03 >version on the CD, Apr'04 update, Jan'05 update) and reinstallation of some of >the special fonts, while testing font selections in the gui. It's clear that >only the original GUI from Dec'03 works correctly with font selections. The >"updates" introduce a bug with font selection. > >To be more specific, the bug is related to selection of three fonts in the >"extra book pane": FigurineCB AriesSP, FigurineCB LetterSP, FigurineCB TimeSP. >The default with the original Dec'03 gui8 is FigurineCB AriesSP, and it can be >changed to something different, then be changed back to FigurineCB AriesSP OK in >that gui version. Not so with the two "update" gui versions... If you try to >change to something else, then change back to FigurineCB AriesSP, you get Arial >instead! Similarly if you try to select FigurineCB LetterSP, you get Courier New >instead! And if you try to switch to FigurineCB TimeSP, you end up with Times >New Roman! You can NOT change to the Figurine CB fonts with the two gui8 >updates. Other font selections work OK, but not those in the "extra book pane". > >The last gui8 version from Jan'05 is somewhat more screwed up fontwise than the >prior two versions. Fonts do not display exactly right, in general. It's >definitely different from the prior versions, and there seems to be no way to >fix it by selecting fonts. It does what it wants to do! This applies >particularly to the dialog box that appears when you replace a game in a >database (Ctrl-R). The font used therein is different. There's also some kind of >font difference in the engine pane, especially the little boxlet that displays >the running time. The bug seems related to "pitch" of the fonts, and the letters >are spaced too far apart. > >These bugs are not really "serious", just cosmetics... > >...but I happened to notice them because I customize my gui highly with >different font sizes and selections. For example I've never found anything >better than the special Chessmaster6000 font for certain things such as the game >score in the Notation pane. I've kept that font for a long time and use it in a >lot of my applications, because it's a very nice bold & easily legible font. > >I'm not noticing much else different in the Jan'05 gui8 update, only slight >changes here and there. If it fixes any bugs, I'm unaware of it. It certainly >introduces some new ones related to fonts. >WP Investigation shows that some of the fonts aren't properly registered, nor are some of the basic extensions used by the Chessbase operations. This is probably an bug/goof in the installer, which is an oversight by the programmers. Also why are they still including a very old eco.cod file which is many years out of date, which causes at least 10-15% incorrect eco classifications? In addition I'm getting some strange behaviour occasionally in other areas, such as when I try to resave a file. It may ask me to "adjudicate" the game, however I was not playing a game, only running an infinite analysis. I'm still testing the Jan'05 gui, but I may well revert to the prior less-buggy version! WP
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