Locking players in their seat will not affect whether or not the table gets chosen for consolidation. You could have a locked player at every table (players who double as full-time dealers, for example). Which table would then get chosen to be eliminated? Not only that, but locking a player from moving doesn't necessarily mean the table shouldn't be consolidated.The final table designation workaround suggested by tandemrx is your best bet. If/when a feature to specify table breakdown order is implemented, it should take care of this.
Yeah, I've since thought of that. Making 'my' table the final table seems to be the best bet as you say.
As for the auto-save, I recommend placing a button on the screen as tandemrx suggested, or using the hotkey to save (Q by default - for "Quicksave"). There's also a Quicksave option on the context-menu (right-click). I'll put down a feature request for auto-saving after a major "event".
Yes, I realise not turning on auto-save in the first place was a bad move.
The reason for this comment arising was because I asked someone to operate the laptop for me one time in this first tourney, and (being a computer illiterate) they pressed the 'power' button.
Since thinking about this, I've realised that the software didn't put up a 'Do you want to save' prompt, I think it just exited. Are you catching the Windows 'shutdown' message (I think it's WM_QUERY_SHUTDOWN or something like that) and dealing with it the same way as someone closing the software?
That's more serious IMO, as it would mean (for example) all tournament info being lost if (say) a laptop decided to shut down cause of a low battery.
I realise that auto-saving would help stop this, but the software should never exit without asking you to save if there are changes you would lose.
And finally - if you see an error, send it to me. The error dialog even has a convenient "Email to Support" button to mail the error report to me (of course, you must have an email program installed and be connected to the internet). I can't help if I don't know what happened!
Agreed. I'm a software developer myself, so I realise there's nothing worse than a user telling you 'I got an error, but I can't remember what it was'
In future I'll try to remember to at least jot down the error message and the circumstances that appeared to cause it.
As I said previously, this was my first 'big' tourney (most others have been 2 tables max) so I was a little stressed out anyway!
Cheers
Andy