Version 0.44 beta released
Fixed bugs:
* Stored tournaments may have not enough independent information to create correctly new games for the next rounds
* Bugs when playing opening book moves for Winboard engines in normal (not tournament) games
Some small improvements/adjustments
New features:
* Playing tournaments won’t be affected if users change parameters in the Tournament creation dialog box
* Recent tournaments (replaced for ongoing tournaments) (Fig. 1)
* Some new docking styles (change in Settings) thus users have more choices to organize their docking windows as well as using space more efficient for more information (Fig. 2)
The code of tournament managing is reviewed and rewritten thus now tournament files can keep more information to continue creating correctly new games (e.g., for new rounds) regardless of the current parameters. Whenever a new tournament is created, the previous one will be automatically stored in the “Recent tournaments” list (however if it will be ignored if it has not any played game, just to avoid creating too many empty items). At any time users can look at the list to find the previous ones, remove what they don’t like, add or edit names/comments to them to easily remember, and of course to load them back to study and/or resume tournaments.
If the number of tournaments on the list exceeds the limit (its value is changeable) the older ones will be deleted. Users can increase the limit (say, 10 thousand) to guarantee to keep all tournaments. If they don’t want this feature they can turn it off by setting zero to that number. They can also tick to “keep” field of a tournament to avoid it being deleted accidentally. The being kept ones won’t be counted to the limit number. Of course, they can “un-keep” anyone to remove later.
Like a typical function “Recent files”, the new tournament managing can work automatically, with or without human attention. However, it’s more than a convenient function but it’s actually an auto backup system that may help users from losing accidentally their precious tournaments.
As usual, any change may come potentially with bugs, larger change may create more serious bugs. Please help us to test and verify thoroughly all changes/new features. For this version as well as any newer ones in the coming times, you may always keep older versions until you satisfy with new ones, just to avoid your work being postponed because of new bugs. Thanks.
Fig. 1 New features: Recent tournament dialog box. The function works as an automatic backup system for tournaments
Fig. 2 New features: 4 docking styles. The bottom docking window (Move list) may not take the whole bottom space but take partly
