The Toolbar

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The toolbar is located right under the main menu. You can entirely switch it off with Options arrow Appearance arrow Main Window arrow View, Tool bar.

It consists of the following elements:

New, open file, save file, Infinite level on/off, Level +/-, flip board, set-up position , appearance, in/decrease chessboard, Load next/previous PGN game, start/ quit ICS mode, start/ quit DGT mode, the memory display, the EPD +/- buttons, the Arena version number display.

In addition you can add navigation arrows (see navigation-bar ) to the tool bar.

New

Creates a new, empty game, normal chess. If you click with the right mouse button, create a new Fischer-chess game. If you click with the middle mouse button, create a new Shuffle- Chess game.

Infinite level on/off

With the turned "8" (the mathematical "infinite" sign) you can switch off or on the infinite mode. The engine will then search for ever or not. With a click on the right mouse button you can select the level mode (fixed search depth, time per move, blitz, mate search, Infinite, tournament, nodes).

Level +/-

With a click on the left mouse button you can increase (clicking on the '+' button) or decrease (clicking on the '-' button) the level. In tournament mode you can change the minutes with the left mouse button and the moves with the right mouse button. In blitz mode you can increase or decrease the base time in minutes with the left mouse button and increase or decrease the bonus time in seconds with the right mouse button.

Flip board

The display direction of the chessboard can be switched here.

Set-up a position

You start the dialog to manually set up a position.

Appearance

Here you start the appearance dialog for changing almost all display settings.

Inarrowdecrease the chessboard

While increasing or decreasing the chessboard, all other elements of the Arena GUI change accordingly.

Load next/previous PGN game

With the left mouse button you can load the next or previous game in the currently loaded PGN file. With the right mouse button you can jump to a game from 10 to 10,000 games forward or backward. If a jump would be too far, Arena will jump to the end or the beginning of the list. Please take into account that the current sorting order is in effect here. So if you sorted the PGN list according to player names, all games of a player are one after the other.

Load next/previous EPD position

You can go to the next or previous position of the currently loaded EPD file here. Useful if you switched off the display of the EPD list in the Main menu under 'EPD'.

Start/quit ICS mode (currently disabled)

You start the ICS mode here, the display changes and you can select an ICS profile. If you are already in this mode, you can leave it with this button (like with Ctrl+I).

Start/quit DGT mode

With a click on the left mouse button you can start or quit the DGT mode with the parameters you set. If you want to change these parameters, click with right mouse button or use Options/ Configure DGT chessboard.

The memory display

Arena shows the available memory on your computer system here. You can always watch whether you gave an engine too much hash table memory. If you click on the display it switches from MB to kB and vice versa. If you have less then 10% free memory on your computer, the font colour changes to red. The value is rounded, please note that 1MB=1024 kB.

If you switched off the tool bar, the same info is shown in the status bar.

The Arena version number display

It serves not only to inform you about the current version number, but also you can call this hehelp file with the left mouse button and show the About box with the right mouse button.


Toolbar Configuration:

Under Options /Tool bar or in the pop-up menu of the tool bar you reach this dialogue.

You can switch on or off all elements of the tool bar here. Moving of certain elements is now possible.

A description of the elements of the tool bar you find here.

Additionally you can switch on small navigation buttons in the tool bar.