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raccrompton / BookBuilder

An automatic Chess opening repertoire Builder
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Windows requires escapes "\" #5

Closed FirstNormalForm closed 2 years ago

FirstNormalForm commented 2 years ago

Hello,

Thank you very much for building this. I've built a Windows executable, but I see you've already found a source.

Here are a couple things I noticed while using this on Windows10. When inputting engine path, I needed to use double "\" to escape, such as:

ENGINEPATH: "D:\\MyDocuments\\Games\\Chess\\Engines\\stockfish\\stockfish15\\stockfish.exe"

I also found the 'r' character part confusing, and messed it up once. I had an idea of what you meant, so I was able to input my path more carefully. But someone less coding-literate might have trouble. Could the code handle this?

#the filepath where the engine is stored on your computer, so it can be accessed. Keep the 'r' character

raccrompton commented 2 years ago

Hmm that's very strange. I think the 'r' part is not necessary on the latest version, so hopefully that issue is solved.

But I will test with double '\' or single '\' and get back to you. Thanks so much for your help.

FirstNormalForm commented 2 years ago

I downloaded a new version. I was successful with single "\", like:

ENGINEPATH: 'D:\MyDocuments\Games\Chess\Engines\stockfish\stockfish15\stockfish.exe'

I was using double quotes instead of single quotes before; maybe that was my problem. Thank you again for building this.

raccrompton commented 2 years ago

Nice, glad that worked. I’m not sure why only single quotes are accepted. Have added single quotes advice to config comments to help for now.