Introduction
------------

This is a (inofficial) Fork of the PysolFC-2.0 open source project
(http://pysolfc.sourceforge.net)

Early investigations of the code showed, that it would not be
a too big effort to replace or add a new user interface (UI).

The new UI using kivy has been designed to meet requirments
of tablet and smartphone devices. Most of the functionality
of the original version has been maintained

The new UI is selected via a new commandline option '--kivy'.
Original user interfaces will continue to work. To run the
kivy version call:

$ python pysol.py --kivy


Images
------

Original images supplied by the collection are of type
gif. In kivy that image type loads very slow. Also many
cards cannot be loaded, because of decoding errors.
To prevent from these problems, the kivy version was
modified to not read any gif images.

Some cardsets have been translated to png, a format
that is processed by both the tcl and the kivy version.

Some others, for which transparency information is not
processed correctly even from png images, have been translated
to the bmp image format (while keeping their gif variant for
the tcl version). bmp format is only processed by the
kivy version.

Additional cardsets are available from the SourceForge
project. To use them with kivy, they need to be converted to
bmp format. A shell script 'cardsetsgiftobmp' has been added
to the scripts directory (needs bash and ImageMagick).

For all gif-images in directories data/images and data/tiles
a duplicate image in png format has been added too.

LB170321.