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Main => Templates, Layouts and Sounds => Topic started by: beaker on March 26, 2011, 07:03:01 AM
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Hi fellas!
Here are a couple links to quick videos I made of my home poker setup. My video making abilities are not the best, but it will give you the basic idea. I have taken screen layouts, backgrounds and audio from several of you guys, much appreciated for sharing!
I'm still in the process of ironing out some issues, but i didn't want to wait a few more months following my next tournament to make the video. The vid was made a couple days after my last tourney, using the TD beta version. So the clean up / tear down effort has already begun in my poker room, but you'll still get a good feel for the setup.
poker room & registration -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btbcT3NxsSk
bust-out -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcI_BxEieKw
Comments are welcome!
Thanks.
Brian
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Excellent set up Beaker.
Loved the screens. . What happens if a player busts out on a bad beat and walks out with out scanning the card?
How do you get the boxes to overlap. ie the blinds(text sign) over the actual blinds (current blinds) box etc.
Would you upload your layout so i could have a look.
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Hi Mahound,
I'm not able to currently guard against the rare occasion when somebody leaves without busting themselves out... maybe I could incorporate the bar codes on the membership cards with a lock system on the exit door :)
Anyways, it works pretty well with my particular tournaments because it is basically the same 45 players invited to each tourney. Everyone knows that proper table balancing is dependent on players busting out within the system. If somebody does take off without busting out the remaining players always tell me and I just bust them out manually.
I'm not sure that I 100% understand your question regarding box overlapping. TD layout design has always been my weakness and I haven't been able to explore all the enhancements in the Beta version yet. Most of my screens / layouts have been simply borrowed from other TD forum users, my screens were taken from Hally I believe.
Anyway, I've attached my layout save file from the Beta TD version; hopefully this is what you need. If not, just let me know and I'll attach anything you'd like.
Beaker
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Nice Set-up, how do you manage to by-pass the print dialogue?
Stu
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Hi Stu,
I'm not actually by-passing the dialogue, once the scanner data is received it invokes an event to automate navigation through the various TD prompts.
The scanner transmits the barcode number which is associated with each "player ID" in TD. The code is captured by a program called T-wedge and passed to TD as keystrokes. In addition to passing the barcode number, I can use T-wedge to add whatever else I need to perform the registration and bust-out tasks. T-wedge includes Java Script capabilities, so basically I can instruct the application to pass specific TD hotkeys to enter buy-in or bust out dialogues, I can pass "tab", "space" and "enter" keystrokes to navigate around the dialogues, and I can enter delays to wait for IE print tasks, etc. I can also transmit characters to the scanner to achieve various tasks, like disabling the scanner temporarily if I have an extended TD event which needs to complete.
Hope this helps
Beaker
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I think I see, so if you enter a player manually T-wedge does not intervene and enter the keystrokes for you? I presume it is all based on the input from the scanner, which then prompts T-wedge into action?
Stu
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Exactly
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kewl, glad it works well for you. Still looking for that print dialogue suppressant, far too much code and tech knowledge required looking at the posts on the internet though for me to understand.
All my entries are carried out manually with a receipt printer but the print dialogue pops up on the extended display which is a total pain in the arse, looks poor and slows down registration waiting for the print dialogue during each entry - not handy!
Stu
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YES!!!! That print dialog on the extended display drives me nuts too!! If I ever come across a way to fix that I'll let you know for sure...
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bust-out -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcI_BxEieKw
How and where do you change that the Player Movement screen is shown on screen (automatically) when a player busts out and one (or more) players will move table?
Thanks!
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On the Player Movement Suggestion dialogue which pops up after you have busted player(s) you will note the check box at the bottom which says "Display player movement screen when player movement suggestion accepted" check this box if you want the movement screen to come up automatically.
Regards
Stu
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Thanks! One more, do you know how to disable the scroll bra on Player Movement screen?
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you can only disable it each time it displays by right clicking on the screen when displayed then 'auto-scroll' (or something similar)
The only other thing I can suggest is to reduce the font size in order that more information is displayed at once, reducing the need for scrolling.
Stu
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you can only disable it each time it displays by right clicking on the screen when displayed then 'auto-scroll' (or something similar)
The only other thing I can suggest is to reduce the font size in order that more information is displayed at once, reducing the need for scrolling.
Stu
Yes I've done all that. But even though I don't have ANYTHING on the screen, the scroll bar is visible and "out-greyed"
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Thanks! One more, do you know how to disable the scroll bra on Player Movement screen?
The scroll bar is always going to be there, only Corey can get rid of it ....lol
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There's an option to turn them off in the next beta.
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Great (then I just have to wait for Beta 5 ;D)
Regarding Player Movement screen as discussed earlier, I would also prefer an option to set how long the Player Movement screen would be shown on screen and then automatically go back to Main Screen. Is that possible?
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The option to display the Player Movement screen after accepting a player movement suggestion simply switches to the Player Movement screen, as if you had done it by pressing F5. Here's how you can make it display for a specified amount of time automatically using the next beta: http://www.thetournamentdirector.net/forums/index.php?topic=2710.0
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kewl, glad it works well for you. Still looking for that print dialogue suppressant, far too much code and tech knowledge required looking at the posts on the internet though for me to understand.
All my entries are carried out manually with a receipt printer but the print dialogue pops up on the extended display which is a total pain in the arse, looks poor and slows down registration waiting for the print dialogue during each entry - not handy!
Stu
I still haven't figured out a way to get that to open in a pre-determined spot. But I did add a feature today that tells the TD to try to push that "Print" button on the print dialog automatically. Seems to work pretty well on my system. So the dialog will still open, but it goes away instantly as the TD "sees" the window open and sends the keystroke to tell it to proceed with printing. Not the optimal solution but hopefully will help.
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I think that will be enough Corey, thanks very much for helping with it! I realise looking at posts about IE print dialogue suppressants that it is a security issue to send direct to a printer, so I think TD keystroking the enter on print dialogue is a good step forward, especially with the difficulties with different printers and drivers etc. It would obviously be easy if it was a system like cardroom magic as they put the same system and same printer set-up in every casino, so no variance to account for.
Can't wait to try it out - Will it only keystroke receipts or will it keystroke all print dialogues from TD? My next big event (using a receipt printer) is 16th April so will be great if Beta 5 is out by then for that tourney with about 150 players.
Cheers
Stu
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Can't wait to try it out - Will it only keystroke receipts or will it keystroke all print dialogues from TD?
All print dialogs (except for printing the user manual). But if necessary this could be changed. I haven't gone through every scenario to see if there are any that should omit this behavior.
My next big event (using a receipt printer) is 16th April so will be great if Beta 5 is out by then for that tourney with about 150 players.
Trying my best! I'm really down to just a very few items.
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kewl,
It would be handy if it was receipts only that were keystroked, with anything else that is exported to the printer still being dialogued so it can go to a full-size printer if used.
Otherwise though, it would be simple enough to change to default printer once reg is closed so that everything else is printed onto an A4/Letter size printer
Stu
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I agree. I will probably add a preference to specify where the "auto print" feature will be effective.
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beaker very good video and good job, sorry for my english but i'm french lol.
i use usb ticket printer and usb scan for code barre.
I downloded twedge for doing the same thing you but for scanning card i use usb port and i don't know how to use twedge for this because only serial, tcp or bluetooth. in Help it said use for USB an virtual serial driver but i didn't know wich soft used.
can you help me and is it possible for you to share your configuration of twedge for working with tournament director ?
thanks a lot for your help
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Hi Winch,
I am using a serial scanner, so unfortunately I have not experienced the same challenge interfacing my scanner that you are encountering.
You may just need to search the internet for solutions. Perhaps you can find a Virtual USB to Serial driver - I believe you would just need to find a driver or application that will route the USB data from your scanner through a virtual serial port so that Twedge has a connection point.
I often use USB to Serial adaptors as my laptop does not have a serial port. Maybe you can find a serial to USB adaptor??
Beaker
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I bought a serial scanner and i found a solution to print receipt on termich printer know i'll need help with Twedge for synchronisation betwen barrecode and ID player in TD to buy-in the good player. thanks for help