What?

Jacoto helps managing collections of SGF-records. It displays their properties in a table and allows manipulating it in several ways. To get an impression - have a look at some screenshots.

The current version is 1.2.15.

Jacoto is , i.e. GPL'ed!

If you have questions regarding Jacoto, please feel free to contact the author or visit Jacoto's help-page in the author's wiki.

The features of Jacoto include

• Loading one sgf-file or a whole directory at once (also recursively)
• Handling SGF-collections, i.e. more than one SGF-property in one file.
  [There is also a more comfortable way to handle collections: split them!]
  [JText2Sgfs is a tool which stores every SGF-file of a collection into a separate file.]
• Correct sorting of the resulting table in several ways ( ranks, names etc. ).
  Filenames starting with numbers (as generated by the GoTeachingLadder) get sorted correctly.
• Start a viewer with a file.
• Run statistics ( best player, overall by color, statistics for a selected player etc. ).
• Export the table as txt- (or xml-)file.
• Load your favorite collection of records automatically on every startup.
• Marking viewed files/records.
• Retrieving information on GoTeachingLadder -reviewers over the internet.
• Adding (multiline-) comments to entries.
• Via View->ShownInfos the informations that get displayed in the columns of the table are selectable.

Requirements

• You must have JAVA with Swing installed (or run Windows, see below) on the system on which this program should run.
  If this is not the case you can get JAVA on either one of the following sites:
  • Sun and IBM for Windows
  • Blackdown for Linux
  • Apple for Macintosh
  If you do not want to program in Java yourself you'll have just to download the JRE.
• Furthermore you have to agree to the terms of the GNU General Public License under which this program is distributed.
  This implies that it is free software ( not like free beer but free speech ) and that it comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.

This program should run under every standart OS for which a JavaVirtualMachine/JRE is available.

Download

Choose between one of the following

• JavaWebStart-version (ca. 300KByte) (help on JavaWebStart)
• executable jar-file as zip (ca. 300KByte)

MacOSX

This version is branched from version 1.2.6 of Jacoto^{[screenshots]}.

• Jacoto.app.sit zipped with dropZip (ca. 192KByte)
  (Jacoto-OSX-Readme)

Source

• the latest source-code via CVS from sourceforge.net

Getting started

(for the experienced user)

Starting from commandline

Having installed Java you would have to type one of these commands:

• java -jar Jacoto.jar
• java -cp Jacoto.jar Jacoto
• java -classpath Jacoto.jar Jacoto
• wjview /cp:p Jacoto.jar Jacoto to use the Microsoft\Windows runtime

on the command-line in order to start Jacoto.

(You will have to check the directories. The best way if you have a path set to JAVA is to change into the directory in which "Jacoto.jar" is located and type one of the commands above afterwards.)

Other ways to start Jacoto

I know that it also works by double-clicking Jacoto.jar in Windows Explorer. I don't know if it is the same using Linux or something else.

Some hints

• Under "Edit->Settings" you can specify the directory in which the viewer is located and the directory in which your sgf-files are.
• There's a trick about Swing: in order to select a directory you have to be in it's mother-dir, select it and press "Open". Don't change into that directory and press "Open" afterwards!
• You can load all the sgf-files in the specified Records-Dir by "Edit"->"Add all in RecordsDirectory".
• To have a nice view of the exported text-file you should use a fixed-pitch font. With me "Courier" or "Terminal" worked fine.
• If you want to use Collections you should be sure that in no SGF-file you want to add variations are used. It won't work then. (This will get fixed later.)

• Setting preferences

  Start Jacoto as usual. Set ShownInfos, Sorting, RecordsDirectory, the Viewer-settings and useCollections to the value you prefer. After this use "Settings"->"save settings" to store these preferences. Now each time Jacoto starts it reads in these preferences.

Screenshots

current version

Jacoto's main window v1.2.3

MacOSX-verion

with 'goban' in background v1.2.6	with open comment-dialog v1.2.6	with 'goban' in background v1.1.0	same as before in higher resolution
several dialogs open v1.1.0	same as before in higher resolution	with about-dialog open v1.1.0

older verions

Jacoto's main window v1.1.0

Jacoto's new SplasScreen v1.1.0

Jacoto's main window ~v1.0.4

Jacoto's main window quite old

Links

I've collected some links to collections of game-records.