Sorry all. So new to creating events from scratch. The conditions formula shown in this thread are over my head.
I want my break sound to fire with 10 seconds left in level #3. Rather than showing me the formula, could you let me know what values to put into each box when you click on the "+" button (test conditions), that way I can get the gist of it and be able to use that for future events?
Every time the
trigger occurs, the event will be considered for firing. The
conditions then determine whether or not the event will fire. If there are no conditions defined, the event will always fire when the trigger occurs. So, essentially, the conditions are narrowing down the possibility that the event fires.
All of the various input boxes below the conditions input area allow you to specify the various variables that are supplied to the conditions formula. During the tournament, when the trigger occurs, all of those variables are filled in automatically by the application from the current tournament state. As an example, the
addOnsAllowed variable (I chose this example because it's the first variable alphabetically) will have a value of 1 if add-ons are allowed
at this time, or 0 if add-ons are not allowed. So when the conditions formula is evaluated, the variable
addOnsAllowed will automatically be set to 1 or 0, depending on the tournament state. On the
Edit Event dialog, you can set this variable (and all of the others) to whatever value you want to simulate a specific tournament state, and then test your conditions formula.
So, as an example, I edit the event "The Countdown ends", which is included in the SampleEvents.tst template that comes with the software. The Conditions for that event are:
(state = 1) and (secondsLeft = 0)The help for the
state variable states:
A number indicating the state, or stage, of the tournament: 0 indicates the tournament has not started; 1 indicates a pre-tournament countdown; 2 indicates the tournament is currently in progress; 3 indicates the tournament has ended.The help for the
secondsLeft variable states:
The number of seconds remaining on the tournament clock.You can see help by hovering over a variable, or by pressing the
Cheat Sheet button.
The above conditions formula basically says: "when a countdown is in progress and there are 0 seconds left on the tournament clock"
I can test this formula, to see its outcome, by changing the values in the
state and
secondsLeft inputs in the
Test Conditions section. For example, if I enter the value "2" (without the quotes) into the
state input and then press the
Test button, the
state variable will be given a value of
2 and the conditions formula will be evaluated. The results will appear in the
Results field. A value of TRUE means the event would fire, FALSE means it would not. In this case, we'd see a value of FALSE since the formula is only going to evaluate to TRUE if state is 1, and we've set it to 2. During a tournament, state will only have a value of 1 during a countdown, so we can be sure our event will only fire during a countdown. The second variable,
secondsLeft works the same way. Together, the
and operator means that both sides must be true for the whole thing to evaluate to true.
I'm not sure what the difference is between roundNum and level as I thought they were the same thing and I have no idea what isRound means
thanks!
Each entry in the blinds schedule is a
level. A level may be either a
Round or a
Break. If the schedule is composed of 3 rounds, followed by a break, followed by 3 more rounds, followed by a break, followed by 3 more rounds, then you have a total of 11 levels: 9 rounds and 2 breaks. The first round is also the first level. The second round is the second level and the third round is the third level. But the 4th level is the first break. Next is the 4th round, which is the 5th level. And so on.
