On Thursday, October 20, 2016 at 3:31:09 AM UTC-7, BlueDice wrote:
For any one who might be interested, after much fumbling, here is my VBA snippet for firing up gnubg with a position loaded, via an excel spreadsheet. VB would be similar for other front end apps:
Dim f as string, MyTask as double
f = "C:\Program Files (x86)\gnubg\gnubg.exe -c MyPosition.txt"
MyTask = Shell(f, 1)
MyPosition.txt is a file containing the "set gnubgid" gnu command, for example:
"set gnubgid bdsGMADYvQMjAA:cAkOAAAAAAAE"
I am building a spreadsheet based 'quiz' containing positions I find interesting or difficult. A double click on the gnubgID cell fires up gnu with the position loaded. Alongside a form appears with a pick list of the top 10 moves (hidden equities).
The equity losses are saved and used to weight the appearance of quiz questions. This is purely a self educational tool.
It would be interesting to know if XG can be fired up in a similar way with position loaded from an xgid text string?
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BD
thank you for this post BlueDice. Why such a simple solution eluded me for years I will never know. A GreedyGammon update that works with Windows 10 will be uploaded within 48 hours
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