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Help Me / Re: Two layout token questions
« on: January 02, 2012, 09:16:32 PM »
We troubleshat (heh) the issue via emails on 11/9 and 11/10.  At one point the software was working as advertised though in the interim it has gone back to the behavior listed at the top of this thread. :(  Since I had already coded in my workaround (manually creating Property Sets for each and every level), I wasn't motivated to help track down an intermittent issue.

If I can be of help, I'm totally willing.  But I'm not volunteering to drive the buggy.

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Wanna display live sports scores in your layout?
This isn't actually how I accomplished putting sports scores in one of my earlier layouts, but here is a very simple way to accomplish it.
Create a cell that will span the width of the screen then copy/paste this HTML inside the cell

<iframe src="http://espn.go.com/bottomline/espnewsbottomlinebasic.html" height="64" width="90%" style="zoom:200%"></iframe>

Your TD must be hooked to the internet for this to work. You can choose which sport(s) you wish to display, however every time the TD screen must refresh the sports scores (and any preferences you set) also reset.

Jody
www.jodystacey.com

It looks like you're supposed to use a height of 44 pixels (from the FAQ):
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1. Can I put the BottomLine on my own web site?
Yes. You are welcome to place the BottomLine on your own site with the understanding that should ESPN ask you to remove it for any reason, you must comply. Possible reasons for removal requests include displaying the BottomLine on sites containing adult/explicit material, modification or otherwise improper display of the ESPN branding, or any other reason ESPN feels is appropriate to demand removal.

To put the BottomLine on your site, simply create a frameset with the bottom frame being exactly 44 pixels tall and point it to this address: http://espn.go.com/bottomline/espnewsbottomlinebasic.html . You must follow these directions exactly and point to this exact address for your implementation to be acceptable to ESPN. We change our BottomLine code quite frequently as improvements are made and pointing to this address ensures you are always getting the most current code.
http://espn.go.com/bottomline/faq.html

Thanks for the suggestion.  I have a convoluted path from my iTunes playlist putting the current selection into an XML file, which then gets automagically uploaded to a FTP server on a free web-hosted website which I then convert into a bit of marquee html which I then iframe back into my TD layout.  No longer does my home crowd debate the artist, title, or year of release for the currently playing selection. :D

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Help Me / Re: 2 Questions (text color & separate prizes)
« on: December 25, 2011, 03:17:23 PM »
Thanks guys for the replies and help. Much appreciated.

Meal: I really like that layout. Nicely put together. I might have to steal a couple ideas from it. lol
Sure thing!  And stealing ideas is fully appropriate — I swiped nearly the whole thing from someone else who posted something very similar. :D

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Help Me / Re: 2 Questions (text color & separate prizes)
« on: December 23, 2011, 11:48:17 AM »
Stuart answered your first question, but the answer to question #2 is similar.  You can break your prize list entries into separate cells and then display them wherever you'd like (separate columns or rows are certainly possible) in your layout.  I have done so in the lower-right of this layout: https://sites.google.com/site/feltclubpoker/Home/tournamentdirectorbackground

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Help Me / Re: Prizes
« on: December 12, 2011, 06:17:19 PM »
Is there a way to display a single prize amount without the text?  For example, if first place gets $500, I would like to display '$500' instead of '1st Place: $500'  which is what the <prize> token gives you.

In the lower-right of my layout ( https://sites.google.com/site/feltclubpoker/Home/tournamentdirectorbackground ) I accomplish this with tags that look like:

<prize index="1" showName="false" showAmount="true" roundOff="true" showRecipient="true"> (though in the example image that last property has not come to fruition).

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Templates, Layouts and Sounds / Re: My Layout - For Sale?
« on: December 12, 2011, 07:22:48 AM »
Congrats on the layout!  I saw that Excalibur was using a modified version of this (they had the pie-chart countdown along with the current level's clock) when I was in Vegas last week.

If people want to attempt to create it themselves than I have no problem with that, like I say it took me a very long time to finish it and get it to display correctly in the right resolutions.

I use a modified version as well (taught myself a bunch in the process — including a screen that displays the currently playing song!).
https://sites.google.com/site/feltclubpoker/Home/tournamentdirectorbackground

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Help Me / Re: Non-standard prize pool
« on: November 21, 2011, 02:16:47 PM »
That's actually an item already on the to-do list.  There isn't a way for the software to do it automatically (at present).  You'd have to get busy with your own calculator.
Alright, thanks for the confirmation.  "Keeping the calculator put away," is code for not drinking so many bottles of suds. :)

Good luck with everything and thanks for all you do.

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Help Me / Re: Non-standard prize pool
« on: November 21, 2011, 10:59:18 AM »
Thanks for the response, Corey.

That would work if I wanted the prize pool to be 100% distributed by chip allocation.  However, I want to ensure that each player receives their buy-in back, then distribute the remaining prize pool by chip standings.  Am I missing a simple way to incorporate that?  (Heck, am I missing a complicated way?  I'm willing to get dirty to try to make this work.  I've already got a custom xml file for Suggesting my "standard" prize distributions each time I set up a new tournament, so would be capable of modifying a configuration file if it would be required.)


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Help Me / Non-standard prize pool
« on: November 21, 2011, 12:31:15 AM »
Background: We generally have one table of participants of widely-varying experience in our monthly weekend home game, and as such I tend to run two tournaments, one as a "warm up" designed to last roughly half the amount of time of the evening's main event.

I'm thinking of changing this warm-up tournament to something else entirely.

Something Else Entirely: Let n represent the total number of players who bought into the tournament.  When the tournament is down to n/2 remaining players (in the case of an even n) or (n+1)/2 (in the case of an odd n), the tournament ends.  Each remaining player then receives prize money consisting of a) the amount of one tournament buy-in, and b) the remaining prize pool distributed by outstanding chip percentage.

By way of example: Say 10 players each buy in for $10 a piece gaining T500 chips apiece.  There are no rebuys.  At the moment the sixth place player is determined the tournament would stop, each of the remaining 5 players would get $10 (one buy-in amount) + $50 x their percentage of total chips in play.  If one player had T2000 chips, one with T1200, one with T800, and two with T500, then the total payments would come to $30, $22, $18, $15, and $15.

My question: How to set this prize distribution up in TD3?

I see the new chop rules can incorporate prize distribution based on remaining chips, but I failed at taking advantage of that when I was monkeying around with trying to set something up.  I'm guessing that I'd have to take advantage of the points system (then manually convert points into dollars, which I'm fine with).  My real motivation is to avoid having to pull out a calculator (or spreadsheet software) to generate the prize pool.

Has anyone done anything like this?  Has anyone considered this then rejected it?

Thanks in advance,
~Neal

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Help Me / Re: Formula Help
« on: November 13, 2011, 10:05:45 PM »
I can see rewarding "Final" hitmen in that they tend to occur after the rebuy period is over.  Also, knowing that by not rebuying you're giving a specific opponent points may alter the decision to go ahead with that rebuy (and therefore juice up the prize pool).

I can see the incentive for the new designation.

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Suggestions / Re: Reentry Tournaments
« on: November 13, 2011, 10:03:15 PM »
Rebuys typically don't get reseated.  Rebuys typically get 100% full stacks.  Reentries may have been in the process of getting blinded down.

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Help Me / Re: Tournament Prize Payout Calculator - Corey Please Read
« on: November 08, 2011, 01:34:51 PM »
Unfortunately the =RATE command uses iteration to find a solution: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/rate-HP005209232.aspx
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Returns the interest rate per period of an annuity. RATE is calculated by iteration and can have zero or more solutions. If the successive results of RATE do not converge to within 0.0000001 after 20 iterations, RATE returns the #NUM! error value.
I don't believe you'd be able to mimic that within The Tournament Director (though I'm not clear on what the goal is for this exercise).

=RATE finds the solution to this formula (found in the =PV help page: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/pv-HP005209225.aspx?CTT=5&origin=HP005200181 ):


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Help Me / Re: Two layout token questions
« on: November 08, 2011, 11:37:18 AM »
As for the offset attribute not working, I can't explain it.  I loaded in the default layout and added the offset attribute with success, but when using my heavily modified layout it's completely ineffective.  I didn't do anything wild and/or crazy with self-generated tokens or anything I thought would be out-of-the-norm.  Odd behavior.
This is totally false!  With any of my tournaments (I have a handfull of empty "shell tournaments" of various sorts, set up with my rebuy/add-on/rounds/etc. preloaded, but without any player information or prizes set) the offset property is not working no matter which layout file I apply.  I opened one of my shell tournaments and had the software suggest new rounds to see if that would affect things, but it did not change the offset tag behavior.

I then created a new tournament from scratch, loading only my chipset template, my modified prize distribution file, and using players already in my database.  I had the software suggest rounds again.  The behavior repeated: the offset tag did not work in any layout.

I'd be happy to provide any files which would be useful to track this down (though you'd have to use small words to ensure I didn't screw anything up).

[edit to add:]
Possibly unrelated, but when I go to open one of my empty generic setups, I get this error:
Code: [Select]
'undefined' is null or not an object (GameTab, TournamentPage: 1069)
 at TournamentPage.displayCell(String, Boolean, GameState, Map)
 at TournamentPage.update(Boolean)
 at TournamentPage.notifListener(Array)
 at NotifServer.send(Array)
 at Dashboard.scrollIn()
 at Dashboard.checkDashboardStatus()
 at Dashboard.notifListener(Array)
 at NotifSubscriber.notifListener(Array)

Browser: Microsoft Internet Explorer
Browser Beta: false
Browser Client Info Version: 7.0
Browser Code Name: Mozilla
Browser Decided Version: 8.0
Browser Detected Version: 8.0
Browser Language: en-us
Browser Minor Version: 0
Browser Version: 4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; BRI/2)
Cookies Enabled: true
CPU Class: x86
Data Folder: C:\Documents and Settings\Neal\My Documents\The Tournament Director 2
Date: 1:53:44 pm 11/08/2011
DB File: C:\Documents and Settings\Neal\My Documents\The Tournament Director 2\Data\db\td.db
DB Folder: C:\Documents and Settings\Neal\My Documents\The Tournament Director 2\Data\db
Install Folder: C:\Program Files\The Tournament Director 3
Install Info: b1debf33773b8a1667a5263e28fa9475
JScript Build: 23141
JScript Version: 5.8
License Info: iGSz81BHmRxtpTpcBSnsOZuhR3WmzsJoJapnceewbEPdxqF+6QhMNT4+hxiWnR7h
Media Player Version: 11.0.5721.5280
Online: true
Platform: Win32
Preferences File: C:\Documents and Settings\Neal\My Documents\The Tournament Director 2\prefs.sav
Repo Config File: C:\Documents and Settings\Neal\My Documents\The Tournament Director 2\repo.sav
Repo Folder: C:\Documents and Settings\Neal\My Documents\The Tournament Director 2\Data
System Language: en-us
TD Patch Level: 1
TD Version: 3.0
User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; BRI/2)
User Language: en-us

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Help Me / Re: Two layout token questions
« on: November 08, 2011, 12:18:52 AM »
Thanks for the level vs. round explanation.  I had noodled that into my head as well, but it's nice to have it confirmed.

As for the offset attribute not working, I can't explain it.  I loaded in the default layout and added the offset attribute with success, but when using my heavily modified layout it's completely ineffective.  I didn't do anything wild and/or crazy with self-generated tokens or anything I thought would be out-of-the-norm.  Odd behavior.

Glad that my work-around was going to end up being necessary in the end anyway.  Would have been a bit of a shame if you'd have posted an 8 character text code that'd fixed all my troubles.  Hope you had a nice vacation...

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Help Me / Re: Two layout token questions
« on: November 07, 2011, 03:46:05 PM »
My workaround for both issues is gross, but lacking any assistance here and with a time-sensitive issue, I went forward with the workaround:
In each "Next Round" cell  I generated a separate Property Set for every round of the tournament, then filled in the Content text manually with Round+1 for each Condition.  Also, I created separate layouts for my tournaments with changing blind durations and then used the same separate Property Set for each segment of the tournament with appropriate durations (hard coded times to look as if in MM:SS format).

I'm still interested in what may have been going on with the offset property tag.  I verified that I had not created any hard-coded "round" or "level" tokens (though I could get the raw values to change if I did create numeric text entries for those manual tags, the offset="+1" property tag never did function as intended). 

Strange things afoot...

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