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Help Me / Re: How to display the previous round's blinds?
« on: May 10, 2007, 11:01:29 PM »
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Help Me / Re: Last Stable Version
« on: May 10, 2007, 10:59:02 PM »
There's no difference in the versions with regards to this type of issue (you didn't describe anything more than just not being able to start the software). It's not a problem with the software, it is a configuration issue on the PC. Going back to a previous version won't help.
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Help Me / Re: Chop a saved tournament?
« on: May 10, 2007, 11:49:17 AM »
Easy to fix, but if you want everything to be "perfect", it will take a little bit of work.
I'm assuming that when you chopped, you actually busted your buddy out (in the TD), ending the tournament. So:
- Load your tournament
- Undo the bust out of your buddy (press 'S'). This will restart the tournament, since now you and he are back in
- Press CTRL+C to initiate a chop. Configure the chop, press OK and the tournament will end
The only "problem" with this is that your bust-out times and the tournament end time will be skewed (off by a week, based on your description). You can adjust these, if you really care, by using the Adjust Rankings dialog on the Players tab. But I'd only do this if you *really* care, because it's a bit of a pain.
I'm assuming that when you chopped, you actually busted your buddy out (in the TD), ending the tournament. So:
- Load your tournament
- Undo the bust out of your buddy (press 'S'). This will restart the tournament, since now you and he are back in
- Press CTRL+C to initiate a chop. Configure the chop, press OK and the tournament will end
The only "problem" with this is that your bust-out times and the tournament end time will be skewed (off by a week, based on your description). You can adjust these, if you really care, by using the Adjust Rankings dialog on the Players tab. But I'd only do this if you *really* care, because it's a bit of a pain.
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Help Me / Re: How to display the previous round's blinds?
« on: May 10, 2007, 11:39:17 AM »
There isn't a way to do this. But it would be a pretty simple thing to add. I'll look into it.
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Help Me / Re: TD 2.2.2 Slowness
« on: May 09, 2007, 04:51:27 PM »
How is the performance of the rest of the app, in general? Does just switching from tab to tab take a much longer time, too?
What I find particularly strange is the loading of tournaments on the Stats tab. There is basically almost nothing faster than loading tournaments, and that is because the app is able to offload the work onto the internal interpreter, so it's very fast. Furthermore, if you've already "refreshed" your tournaments, the TD will simply look at the timestamp of each tournament file to see if the file has been updated since it last loaded it. Therefore, if you press Refresh Tourneys and it loads all 90 tournaments, then immediately press Refresh Tourneys again, it should fly through the list, not actually loading any of them (because they are already loaded).
I have run the software on countless different machines and have never encountered an issue like this. Not being able to replicate the problem makes it difficult to diagnose. But you're not the only one to report this problem. It would seem obvious to me that it is a configuration issue, but I won't swear to it.
Since the TD runs inside of IE, this is where I would look first. You obviously tried updating IE with no luck. How does IE perform otherwise?
The only other thing that I can think of that might directly affect performance would be something that could be auditing Javascript execution, like maybe anti-virus or anti-spyware software, although I don't know of any that I can say definitely does this. But if you have any installed, you might try disabling it and seeing what happens.
What I find particularly strange is the loading of tournaments on the Stats tab. There is basically almost nothing faster than loading tournaments, and that is because the app is able to offload the work onto the internal interpreter, so it's very fast. Furthermore, if you've already "refreshed" your tournaments, the TD will simply look at the timestamp of each tournament file to see if the file has been updated since it last loaded it. Therefore, if you press Refresh Tourneys and it loads all 90 tournaments, then immediately press Refresh Tourneys again, it should fly through the list, not actually loading any of them (because they are already loaded).
I have run the software on countless different machines and have never encountered an issue like this. Not being able to replicate the problem makes it difficult to diagnose. But you're not the only one to report this problem. It would seem obvious to me that it is a configuration issue, but I won't swear to it.
Since the TD runs inside of IE, this is where I would look first. You obviously tried updating IE with no luck. How does IE perform otherwise?
The only other thing that I can think of that might directly affect performance would be something that could be auditing Javascript execution, like maybe anti-virus or anti-spyware software, although I don't know of any that I can say definitely does this. But if you have any installed, you might try disabling it and seeing what happens.
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Help Me / Re: Tips for making slow systems run TD better?
« on: May 05, 2007, 04:06:08 PM »
You're right, sorry for the confusion.
There are many tokens that display time values, such as <currenttime>, <elapsedtime>, <nextbreak>, etc (probably a dozen or so). Each of these share many of the same attributes, such as "format" and "showSeconds". For example, you could have <currenttime showSeconds="false">.
The <clock> token is different, mostly for historical reasons. The <clock> token has attributes "format" and "alwaysShowHours". It does not have the "showSeconds" attribute.
However, there are also tokens <hours>, <minutes>, and <seconds>. These show the respective parts of the main clock. So, to display the main clock without seconds, use this HTML:
There are many tokens that display time values, such as <currenttime>, <elapsedtime>, <nextbreak>, etc (probably a dozen or so). Each of these share many of the same attributes, such as "format" and "showSeconds". For example, you could have <currenttime showSeconds="false">.
The <clock> token is different, mostly for historical reasons. The <clock> token has attributes "format" and "alwaysShowHours". It does not have the "showSeconds" attribute.
However, there are also tokens <hours>, <minutes>, and <seconds>. These show the respective parts of the main clock. So, to display the main clock without seconds, use this HTML:
Code: [Select]
<hours>:<minutes>
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Help Me / Re: My trial period was less than 24 hours?! -- need help for tonight
« on: May 05, 2007, 04:01:27 PM »
Right-click on the Tournament Director shortcut installed on your desktop and select "Run as administrator". If you do not see this option, you will need to log out of Windows and login using an account with administrator access, then run the Tournament Director.
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Beta Testing / Re: Version 2.3 Beta 1
« on: May 05, 2007, 10:25:49 AM »
- You don't have to right-click each player to buy them in. You can press the Buy-in Players button (on the Players tab, or use the hotkey from the Tournament page) and select which players you want and buy them in all in one shot. This will also issue receipts. (It will also individually print the receipts - meaning opening the "Print" dialog - for each of the buy-ins, so be careful how many you do at once.)
- Not sure how you've come to this conclusion. The "salesperson" input on each of the dialogs is identical. So you can either select an existing person, or enter a new one on every dialog on which this input appears. Let me know if this is not working properly for you.
- The receipt has a template file, which you can completely change to suit your own needs. You can change the size, add your own logo(s), change the layout, whatever you want. There are other fields that can be added that are not necessarily included in the default template, like the event name, and more extensive information on the particular player. If you are in Track players mode (the default - meaning you are adding specific players to your tournament), the player's name is printed on the receipt. You can update the template to add additional info, like address or email address or ID, if you want. This is spelled out in the user manual.
I'll give the last suggestion a thought. I'm not sure how far I think the software ought to go with the sales and receipts just yet.
- Not sure how you've come to this conclusion. The "salesperson" input on each of the dialogs is identical. So you can either select an existing person, or enter a new one on every dialog on which this input appears. Let me know if this is not working properly for you.
- The receipt has a template file, which you can completely change to suit your own needs. You can change the size, add your own logo(s), change the layout, whatever you want. There are other fields that can be added that are not necessarily included in the default template, like the event name, and more extensive information on the particular player. If you are in Track players mode (the default - meaning you are adding specific players to your tournament), the player's name is printed on the receipt. You can update the template to add additional info, like address or email address or ID, if you want. This is spelled out in the user manual.
I'll give the last suggestion a thought. I'm not sure how far I think the software ought to go with the sales and receipts just yet.
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Beta Testing / Re: Version 2.3 Beta 1
« on: May 04, 2007, 10:12:52 AM »
When you turn on the option to Issue receipts, receipt files will be created, in the chosen folder, using the chosen template. Additionally, on each of the various buy-in, rebuy, add-on, undo buy-in, etc, dialogs, there will be a Salesperson drop-down list so you can select a salesperson. This is actually a combo-box, meaning you can add a new person to the list directly without having to go back to the Preferences tab to do it.
If you have the Print receipts option checked, each time a receipt file is created, it is also sent to the printer. The TD can't actually print, but it will pop-up the print dialog so you can print the receipt.
If you have the Print receipts option checked, each time a receipt file is created, it is also sent to the printer. The TD can't actually print, but it will pop-up the print dialog so you can print the receipt.
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Help Me / Re: Formua I use wonlt work in TD
« on: May 03, 2007, 03:34:47 PM »
Doh! I believe I meant "floor" instead of "round". To round a number up, use floor(n + .5). Of course, now that I've started thinking again, the ceil() function is exactly what you are looking for.
<bonking head on desk>
<bonking head on desk>
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Beta Testing / Re: Version 2.3 Beta 1
« on: May 03, 2007, 11:17:41 AM »
Uhm, no, it won't. There's no sorting of the sound events because.... well, I never thought about it I guess.
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Help Me / Re: Formua I use wonlt work in TD
« on: May 03, 2007, 11:12:29 AM »
There is no "roundup" function. But as you obviously figured out, there is a "round" function, which rounds to the nearest (either up or down). If you want to always round up, just add .5: round(<whatever> + .5)
round((sqrt(((bc*n)/(r+1)))/r) + .5)+(n-r)
round((sqrt(((bc*n)/(r+1)))/r) + .5)+(n-r)
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Help Me / Re: Satellites
« on: May 03, 2007, 11:09:48 AM »
Can't think of any way to automate this. You'll probably have to do it manually...
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Help Me / Re: Bustouts Awarded Based On Knockout Place
« on: May 02, 2007, 09:29:39 AM »
The beta version is available in the "Beta Testing" forum.
You want to use the new switch() function to simplify your formula. The switch works like this: The first argument is the "switch" argument, meaning the result of the function will be chosen based on the value of that argument. The remaining arguments come in pairs. The first of each pair is the value to which to compare the switch argument, and the second of each pair is the result if the first argument and the switch argument match. You can also have a final "default" argument, which will be the result if the switch argument matches none of the comparison arguments. Sounds complicated, but it's not.
Let's say you have want to award points like this:
1st place: 50
2nd: 35
3rd: 25
4th: 20
5th: 15
6th: 13
7th: 12
8th: 11
9th: 10
10th and above: 9
Using if() functions, it would be something like:
or
Using a switch() function is much easier:
The first argument, r is the switch argument. We're "switching" on the value of r (rank). The next two arguments, 1 and 50, are the first pair. 1 is compared to the switch argument, and if it matches, the value 50 is returned. If it doesn't, it moves on to the next pair of arguments. 2 is compared to the switch argument, and if it matches, the value 35 is returned. If it doesn't, it moves on to the next pair of arguments. And so on. Notice that there are 9 pairs, and the final pair is "9, 10". Then there is an additional argument, "9". This is the default argument. If the switch argument doesn't match anything, the final default argument is returned. As you can deduce, if the rank is greater than 9, the final argument (9) will be returned. If the default argument is omitted, 0 is returned.
If it makes it easier, write it like this:
You want to use the new switch() function to simplify your formula. The switch works like this: The first argument is the "switch" argument, meaning the result of the function will be chosen based on the value of that argument. The remaining arguments come in pairs. The first of each pair is the value to which to compare the switch argument, and the second of each pair is the result if the first argument and the switch argument match. You can also have a final "default" argument, which will be the result if the switch argument matches none of the comparison arguments. Sounds complicated, but it's not.
Let's say you have want to award points like this:
1st place: 50
2nd: 35
3rd: 25
4th: 20
5th: 15
6th: 13
7th: 12
8th: 11
9th: 10
10th and above: 9
Using if() functions, it would be something like:
Code: [Select]
if(r == 1, 50, if(r == 2, 35, if(r == 3, 25, if(r == 4, 20, if(r == 5, 15, .... <etc> )))))
or
Code: [Select]
if(r == 1, 50, 0) + if(r == 2, 35, 0) + if(r == 3, 25, 0) + if(r == 4, 20, 0) + ... <etc>
Using a switch() function is much easier:
Code: [Select]
switch(r, 1, 50, 2, 35, 3, 25, 4, 20, 5, 15, 6, 13, 7, 12, 8, 11, 9, 10, 9)
The first argument, r is the switch argument. We're "switching" on the value of r (rank). The next two arguments, 1 and 50, are the first pair. 1 is compared to the switch argument, and if it matches, the value 50 is returned. If it doesn't, it moves on to the next pair of arguments. 2 is compared to the switch argument, and if it matches, the value 35 is returned. If it doesn't, it moves on to the next pair of arguments. And so on. Notice that there are 9 pairs, and the final pair is "9, 10". Then there is an additional argument, "9". This is the default argument. If the switch argument doesn't match anything, the final default argument is returned. As you can deduce, if the rank is greater than 9, the final argument (9) will be returned. If the default argument is omitted, 0 is returned.
If it makes it easier, write it like this:
Code: [Select]
switch(r,
1, 50,
2, 35,
3, 25,
4, 20,
5, 15,
6, 13,
7, 12,
8, 11,
9, 10,
9)
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Help Me / Re: Satellites
« on: May 02, 2007, 09:13:35 AM »
I don't understand what it is your are asking. Can you rephrase the question or be more specific?