Author: Richard A. Fowell (fowell@netcom.com)
Date: 13:31:51 02/06/99
It's been a while since I last posted these ...
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Tip #1: Recording HIARCS PV history
Sometimes, you'd like to see what HIARCS "thought" about a position
at various search depths. The HIARCS screen display only
shows the PV for the current search depth, but the PV history can be
recorded as an animated GIF using the screen recorder utility
"Gif-gIf-giF", which is available for
- Windows 3.1,
- Windows 95,
- Windows NT
- Macintosh.
Even the freely downloadable Gif-gIf-giF demo will do this.
The demo is available at
<http://www.peda.com/>
The resulting animated GIF can be viewed by many utilities and
Web browsers, including the downloadable demo of "A Smaller GIF",
available at the same Web site as Gif-gIf-giF.
Tip #2: Saving the HIARCS PV as text to the Clipboard [Macintosh only]
The freeware Macintosh utility Text Capture will capture the HIARCS PV
and save it to the Clipboard as text. This is a good way to save HIARCS
analysis. This utility can be downloaded from
<http://users.aol.com/jwwalker/>
< http://users.aol.com/jwwalker/pages/tc.html>
The formal name is Text_Capture_FKEY2.4. Installation is easy, and does
not require rebooting. After downloading, drag a copy of the
"Text Capture FKEY suitcase" file onto the System Folder. The system
will ask if you want it in the Fonts folder (you do). After that,
pressing the CMD-SHIFT-6 three-key combination will convert the cursor
to a crosshairs. Drag a rectangle around the PV, and when you release
the mouse button, the PV will be copied as text to the Clipboard.
You can then copy it into a text editor, email program, etc.
Note: even though Text Capture is a fairly old utility, it still
works under System 8.5.
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