My gift to the community – a much better cutechessGUI

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Re: My gift to the community – a much better cutechessGUI

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Re: My gift to the community – a much better cutechessGUI

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Gabor Szots wrote: Wed Mar 04, 2026 10:59 am Improved and bugfixed release! :D

https://github.com/Yoshie2000/cutechess ... ag/qol-1.1
Yes, here are the improvements:

New features:
Customisable font size


Bugfixes:

Correctly track button states when loading tournaments
Popup windows better fit on the screen with windows display scaling enabled
Improved layout saving on Windows 10
Tablebases now work correctly after loading a tournament
Side swapping now works correctly after loading a tournament (tablebase adjudication by GUI now works after resuming a tournament)
Numeric UCI options are restored correctly after loading a tournament
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Re: My gift to the community – a much better cutechessGUI

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pohl4711 wrote: Wed Mar 04, 2026 4:07 pm
Gabor Szots wrote: Wed Mar 04, 2026 10:59 am Improved and bugfixed release! :D

https://github.com/Yoshie2000/cutechess ... ag/qol-1.1
Yes, here are the improvements:

New features:
Customisable font size


Bugfixes:

Correctly track button states when loading tournaments
Popup windows better fit on the screen with windows display scaling enabled
Improved layout saving on Windows 10
Tablebases now work correctly after loading a tournament
Side swapping now works correctly after loading a tournament (tablebase adjudication by GUI now works after resuming a tournament)
Numeric UCI options are restored correctly after loading a tournament
I am just running a tournament. Interrupting and resuming seems OK. Buttons visible without having to change screen scaling. I am happy.

What I could not do is set default location for the engine json file. However I try it does not change the default which, on my PC, is
e:\Sakk\Cute Chess\cutechess-config\cutechess\. I may miss something but it is a minor issue anyway.
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Re: My gift to the community – a much better cutechessGUI

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Boo for not committing my patch https://github.com/Yoshie2000/cutechess/pull/1 :-P
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Re: My gift to the community – a much better cutechessGUI

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The provided binaries wont work under Debian 13 (and related distros) - the updated sourcecode however, after removing:

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	if (s.value("ui/colorTheme").toString() == "Dark")
		QGuiApplication::styleHints()->setColorScheme(Qt::ColorScheme::Dark);
	else if (s.value("ui/colorTheme").toString() == "Light")
		QGuiApplication::styleHints()->setColorScheme(Qt::ColorScheme::Light);
Line 99-102 in projects/gui/src/cutechessapp.cpp compiles just fine and produces working programs.

Thanks.
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Re: My gift to the community – a much better cutechessGUI

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cpeters wrote: Wed Mar 04, 2026 7:47 pm The provided binaries wont work under Debian 13 (and related distros) - the updated sourcecode however, after removing:

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	if (s.value("ui/colorTheme").toString() == "Dark")
		QGuiApplication::styleHints()->setColorScheme(Qt::ColorScheme::Dark);
	else if (s.value("ui/colorTheme").toString() == "Light")
		QGuiApplication::styleHints()->setColorScheme(Qt::ColorScheme::Light);
Line 99-102 in projects/gui/src/cutechessapp.cpp compiles just fine and produces working programs.

Thanks.
Instructions for 'Building from Source' in the readme seemed not sufficient; after installing

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qt6-5compat-dev  qt6-base-dev  qt6-base-dev-tools  qt6-svg-dev
additionally (and let apt apt care for the dependencies) no fiddeling with the source was necessary anymore.
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Re: My gift to the community – a much better cutechessGUI

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Yesterday evening I interrupted a gauntlet and resumed it this morning. However, it did not play the engine that was next in the queue but restarted from the first engine.
I'm going to investigate further.
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Re: My gift to the community – a much better cutechessGUI

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I have two questions and one request. Is it possible to add a Swiss tournament and how can I remove the text below so that it does not appear?

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Re: My gift to the community – a much better cutechessGUI

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Dark background doesn't work in windows 10.
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Re: My gift to the community – a much better cutechessGUI

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The Dark theme looks fantastic. It is a great new look, very well done.

I'm not using this new version currently because I don't like the Decision Time (DT) in the pgn. Stefan says I can probably replace the cutechess-cli.exe file with the previous version, but I haven't tried that yet. As the saying goes, you can't keep everyone happy all of the time.

Thanks again Stefan for this gift to the community.