I know that the event trigger is a level starts but am completely confused on how the formulas work. can you please give me examples of the correct formulas and what exactly I have to input in the conditions box. all the stuff below the conditions box is confusing to me, do i need to input information in there also. This is just a home game but I am trying to have it as professional as possible.
All of the stuff below the Conditions input box are strictly for
testing the Conditions, nothing else. Let's say you're setting up an event to announce the blinds before round 2. You would use "A level starts" as the Trigger, and for the Conditions you'd use something like:
isRound and roundNum = 2When you press the
Test button, it will probably say
FALSE. That's actually OK, because the results didn't say
Error. That means that while you didn't get the results you expected, you do know that your Conditions are syntactically correct. In other words, it's a valid formula using valid variables.
During a tournament, the variables
isRound and
roundNum would be assigned automatically by the TD when the TD evaluates your Conditions. In other words, every time a round starts your event would be triggered (since it has the Trigger "A level starts"), and the conditions would be evaluated. The TD would have given
isRound a value of
1 and
roundNum the value of the current round number. Then the conditions would be evaluated, and if it was round 2, then the results would be
TRUE.
In the Event dialog, if you want to test your conditions you have to assign values to those variables yourself. This allows you to test the Conditions in different scenarios that you get to decide on. To test your Conditions formula, you would need to find the inputs (below the Conditions input) for the variables
isRound and
roundNum and enter values in them. Then press the
Test button. This simulates what would happen in the tournament, and allows you to make sure you've configured the Conditions correctly.