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Help Me / Re: Vertical Seating Chart Layout?

« on: July 26, 2007, 08:55:43 PM »

Right-click on the Seating Chart page and select Seating Chart Properties.  You can also press the "Other Properties" button on the Layout tab and select "Seating Chart Page".

On the bottom-half of the properties, on the left-hand side, Diagram Format should be selected.  Underneath it you can select the number of columns.  Enter 1.

Note that this is part of your Layout, so this setting will be saved with your layout template.

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Beta Testing / Re: Version 2.3 is available

« on: July 24, 2007, 10:00:01 AM »

... from the guys speaking 'Jive' in the movie Airplane.

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Suggestions / Re: Players unique identifier

« on: July 24, 2007, 09:58:35 AM »

I'll put it on the to-do list.

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Beta Testing / Re: Version 2.3 is available

« on: July 23, 2007, 10:20:58 AM »

S'mo fo butter layin' to the bone. Jackin' me up.

Cutty say he can't hang.

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Help Me / Re: version 2.3.4&5 lock up after doing stats

« on: July 23, 2007, 10:12:50 AM »

This isn't actually a "lock-up".  If you select the option to continue (allow the script to continue running), everything will work fine.

This is due to a Microsoft Internet Explorer script "feature".  It is designed to prevent a web page from locking IE up by entering into an infinite loop.

When you visit a web page that contains Javascript (and a vast majority now do), that script code doesn't typically run "all the time".  Meaning, it will run just after the page completes loading, when you exit the page, or when you click on something on the page, or even when you just hover the mouse cursor over an item on the page.  Something triggers the code to be run, Internet Explorer runs the code, and when it is done control is handed by to IE.  While the code runs, your browser is typically unresponsive, but that's OK because usually the code runs for just an instant.

If the code were to go into an infinite loop (and thus never stop running), then IE would "lock up"; it would remain in that unresponsive state.  To prevent this, Microsoft added a "feature" that simply limits how many instructions that code is allowed to perform at any given time.  If it exceeds this (arbitrary) threshold, IE intervenes, putting the code on hold, and asking you if you want to allow the code to continue.  This is the dialog message you see in the Tournament Director.  This "feature" should be disabled for HTML applications (which the TD is), but for whatever reason this appears to have been overlooked.

On the TD Stats page, a lot of code is being executed in order to compute stats.  (This is, of course, dependent on how many tournaments you have.)  Obviously, the threshold is being reached.  All you need to do is allow the code to continue.

Luckily, Microsoft provided a way to get rid of this entirely.  Well, sort of.  The default threshold is 5,000,000 (meaning 5 millions instructions are allowed to execute before IE intervenes).  You can increase this threshold if you want and effectively do away with the warning.  Follow the instructions in this Microsoft Knowledge Base article if you want to do this:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;175500

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Help Me / Re: Vista File Location

« on: July 23, 2007, 09:57:08 AM »

Like I said, I haven't yet experienced this so I cannot unfortunately give any help.  I'll do some research and see what I can find out.

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Help Me / Re: Vista File Location

« on: July 21, 2007, 06:59:05 PM »

Apparently, on some copies of Vista the operating system intervenes and even though the TD thinks it is saving files to the same place the software is installed ("C:\Program Files\The Tournament Director 2" by default), it actually saves somewhere else.  Try looking in:

C:\Users\<your login name>\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\TournamentDirector

Might not be exactly that, but that gives you somewhere to start.

Not sure why it does this, or on which versions of Vista (there are so many versions...).  It doesn't do it on my copy, so I don't have any first-hand experience with this.

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Help Me / Re: Modifying Values after Tournament Closed (Rake)

« on: July 20, 2007, 06:10:17 PM »

Edit the player on the Players tab.  You can then edit any of the actions in the Tournament History section.

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Templates, Layouts and Sounds / Re: Layout keeps changing every other round

« on: July 20, 2007, 11:16:09 AM »

No need to post this in 2 places.  See http://thetournamentdirector.net/forums/index.php?topic=801.0.

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Help Me / Re: Layout changing odd / even rounds

« on: July 20, 2007, 11:15:28 AM »

Property Groups in cells have 3 Property Sets: Odd Rounds, Even Rounds, and Breaks.  This was originally designed to allow changing of colors (and whatever else you want) of cells for odd and even rounds, signifying the need to change the deck of cards each round.  A Property Set for breaks allows a further color change to make it obvious the tournament is currently in a break period.

If you changed one of the included templates, I suspect you probably changed only the Odd Rounds property set.  Therefore, on even-numbered rounds, your changes seem to "disappear".  You need to extend your modifications to the Even Round and Break Property Sets of each cell.  If you don't need for the screen to change colors, etc, on odd/even rounds, then you should simply delete the Even Round and Breaks property sets of each cell.

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Templates, Layouts and Sounds / Re: Layout tutorial

« on: July 19, 2007, 12:54:36 PM »

There is documentation on layouts, right there in the user manual included with the software.  But there is no tutorial.  Frankly, I don't know how good of a tutorial I could write.

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Templates, Layouts and Sounds / Re: Template Gallery

« on: July 18, 2007, 09:55:49 AM »

Corey,

Where do we stand on making a "Template Gallery" topic heading on the forums page?  Maybe if you put that up and explain what it is for, then maybe people will start posting their .tlo files.  I think the interest is there.....

That was actually the intention of this forum to begin with.  With the recent addition of the Layout export option, I was hoping to see layouts posted, and enough to justify a place on the main TD website to make them easily available to everyone.  But so far we although we have seen a lot of interest from those wanting layouts, I haven't seen a whole lot of layouts posted.  Or am I missing them somewhere?

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Help Me / Re: Player Seating when down to the Final Table

« on: July 18, 2007, 09:53:10 AM »

That is actually how I've tried to structure the default settings.  I got so many suggestions to "automatically randomize the final table" that I set it as the default.  Either way you do it, someone will want it the other way and won't figure out how to change it without asking.  Such is software, and such is life.

As for rounds, I'm happy to add more, but there actually are quite a few included with the software, including Poker Stars (1-table sit and go).  Don't have the WSOP structure.  Anyone?

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Help Me / Re: LAYOUT question

« on: July 16, 2007, 10:26:50 AM »

The layout displayed on the Layout tab shows the cell placement and the name of the cell.  It's not exactly a "preview" of what you will see on the Tournament page, but it's a "likeness" I suppose.

Crossed-out cell names designate that the cell will not be displayed in the presently selected "state".  If you click the "View for..." button, you can change the simulated "state" of the tournament, so that you can get an idea of how your layout will look in a different state.  The default state is set such that rebuys and add-ons are not allowed.  In the default layout, the Rebuys cell does not display if your tournament doesn't allow rebuys.  Why would you want to display the number of rebuys if your tournament doesn't allow them at all?  (Likewise for the Add-ons cell.)

There is a difference in "not allowed" and "no longer allowed".  The Rebuys cell is configured to not display if rebuys are not allowed.  What that means is if rebuys are allowed the cell will display, and will continue to display even after the rebuy period has ended.  If rebuys are not allowed in your tournament at all, the Rebuys cell will not display.

This brings up a point, though, and may explain why the Rebuys cell disappears in your tournament after your rebuy period ends.

The "Rebuy Players" dialog, when invoked by the user, will not allow rebuys if the rebuy period has ended.  However, it gives you the options to override the fact that the rebuy period has ended, and allows you to rebuy if you want to.  Recently, I changed the "Bust Players Out" dialog to give this option as well.  When you bust players out, if rebuys are allowed, it gives the option to immediately rebuy a player so they can keep their current seat.  If the rebuy period had ended, it simply skipped this step.  So I added the option to override, meaning if rebuys are allowed in your tournament, every time you bust a player out it will ask if the player wants to rebuy, even after the rebuy period has ended.  This quickly became a nuisance, so I added the option to disable rebuys directly from that "override" dialog.  I implemented this by simply turning off the "rebuys allowed" option, which essentially means rebuys aren't allowed for the tournament (doesn't matter if you've already rebought players, those rebuys still stand).  This would cause the Rebuys cell to disappear, since it displays based on the "Rebuys allowed" option.

I need to change the way this is implemented.

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Beta Testing / Re: Version 2.3 is available

« on: July 15, 2007, 10:47:14 AM »

No gimmick - you've hit upon the 1 part of the software that isn't translated.  For ordinal rankings: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc, English has a pattern that I can follow and compute the proper suffix:

If the number is between 10 and 19 (inclusive), then the suffix is "th"; as in 10th, 11th, 15th, 17th, 19th
Otherwise, if the last number is 1, the suffix is "st"; if the last number is 2, the suffix is "nd"; if the last number is 3, the suffix is "rd"; else the suffix is "th".

I'm certain this is done many different ways in other languages.  Maybe with enough information I can figure out a way to make this configurable, but for now I've just resigned myself to the fact that it's going to be in English for everyone.  Sorry.