Full Tilt does this differently from Stars. You have selected "centered seating" on Full Tilt. When that is selected, FTP always displays you at the bottom of the table and the bottom right when the number of seats is even. So you need to tell the HUD that your preferred seat is 3. To get your stats to show up in the right place, open the HUD_config.xml file, find the line under Full Tilt that looks like this:
and change it to this:Most (all?) of the devs on this project are more interested in adding features, fixing bugs, increasing speed, etc., instead of making the program easier to use. There are some easy to use improvements in the works, but this will be a pretty slow process.

thanks for the clarification - perhaps then they should change the thread title to reflect the new version

well, i've been trying to add features that also made it easier to use, hence being able to move the windows around easily and such

We can fix the crash issue from the window-tracking code in Linux, but it will require some effort on the part of the guys with Linux, I've already researched how, I just don't have the ability to run Linux to actually fix it

Personally, I'm unfortunatly crippled by a total lack of knowledge of GUIs, so the HUD work that I've managed to do has totally amazed me .. and it's not looking like I'll have time anytime soon to learn the stuff i'm not able to deal with right now.. so, i'm going to be working on some windows issues...

Yes, well. I'm also pee'd off with M$ and have pretty well changed over to Ubuntu and that means running the FTP and PS clients thru Wine. However, I also need the data from programs like Hold em Manager but really don't want to go back to M$ so this program, FPDB, seemed like my answer. Some of the problems I ran into in installing FPDB were:

• Very important to remember to include that little ';' at the end of an MySQL line, otherwise what you think just happened, didn't.

• The WiKi identifies the user as 'fpdb' in one place and 'fpdbuser' in another. Might just be my imagination, but I think this might cause problems.

• When the installation is complete the documentation says 'go play poker and win etc', except I'm not sure if I need to 'run' anything to get FPDB going, or is it always going, or does it start automatically when it detects my chips going to another player.

So I took a punt and tried to run fpdb.py (whilst not being sure if it needed to run in a terminal or elsewhere) and was delighted to read a message saying that the table view was no longer needed and that I probably got this message because I had postgres installed. I don't even know how to spell postgress yet alone install it. Nonetheless, I went and played poker and FPDB failed to make an appearance. So disappointing.

My distinct impression is that a lot of work has gone into this project, but that some elements, like error processing, could do with a little refinement. Anyone want to lead me thru getting FPDB running?

Regards

@TheMinder: Have you initialized the database and have you edited the HUD_config.xml and placed it in /home/YOU/.fpdb ?

Have you considered to include EV statistics?

To be honest, I would know how to initialize the database... I just followed the guide/tutorial/wiki.

Yes, I have edited the HUD_config.xml file and it's in the /home/ME/.fpdb directory

I tried to edit my post but it appears that option is not available... so I will post a corrected version:

To be honest, I would NOT know how to initialize the database... I just followed the guide/tutorial/wiki.

Yes, I have edited the HUD_config.xml file and it's in the /home/ME/.fpdb directory

@TheMinder: when you run fpdb.py from a terminal, does the program start? (It's the middle layer window of this screenshot: http://fpdb.sourceforge.net/img/fpdbScreenshot1.png )

What is the terminal output?

What are the contents of fpdb-error-log.txt and HUD-error.txt?

@ xaivaix:

Ok, running /home/me/fpdb/pyfpdb/fpdb.py in terminal yields a pop-up window saying:
"Fatal Error - SQL Interface Library Missing
Please note that the table viewer only works with mysgl, if your use postgresSQL this error msg is expected yada yada yada."

The terminal window shows:
"Note: error output is being diverted to fpdb-error-log.txt and HUD-error.txt. Any major error will be reported there _only_."

output of fpdb-error-log.txt is:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/wayne/fpdb/pyfpdb/fpdb.py", line 464, in <module>
me = fpdb()
File "/home/wayne/fpdb/pyfpdb/fpdb.py", line 377, in __init__
self.load_profile()
File "/home/wayne/fpdb/pyfpdb/fpdb.py", line 275, in load_profile
self.settings['db-password'])
File "/home/wayne/fpdb/pyfpdb/fpdb_db.py", line 64, in connect
import MySQLdb
ImportError: No module named MySQLdb

output of HUD-error.txt is:
HUD_main starting
Using db name = fpdb
No HUD_config.xml found, using HUD_config.xml.example.
A HUD_config.xml will be written. You will probably have to edit it.Unhandled exception in thread started by <function read_stdin at 0x839f3e4>
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/wayne/fpdb/pyfpdb/HUD_main.py", line 114, in read_stdin
db_connection = Database.Database(config, db_name, 'temp')
File "/home/wayne/fpdb/pyfpdb/Database.py", line 56, in __init__
import MySQLdb
ImportError: No module named MySQLdb

Thank you for your patience.

It is asking for the mysql interface, which should have been installed by the windows installer. If you are trying to use mysql go here and download and install the mysqldb interface. You want the file that ends in py2.5.exe.

If you intend to use Postgres, then look in your HUD_config.xml file and change the mysql in this line to postgresql.

Ok, downloaded the mysql interface and attempted to install it under Wine. It complained that Python 2.5 was not on the system. Went and found Python 2.5, downloaded it and installed it under Wine... all ok. Re-installed the msql interface under Wine... all ok.

Attempted to run fpdb.py and got the same popup error msg about mysql/postgress and the following error in terminal:
"wayne@wayne-desktop:~/fpdb/pyfpdb$ python fpdb.py
Note: error output is being diverted to fpdb-error-log.txt and HUD-error.txt. Any major error will be reported there _only_.
Failed to load libs for graphing, graphing will not function. Please in
stall numpy and matplotlib if you want to use graphs.
This is of no consequence for other parts of the program, e.g. import
and HUD are NOT affected by this problem.
Reading configuration file /home/wayne/.fpdb/HUD_config.xml"

fpdb-error-log.txt and HUD-error.txt contain the same info as last time.

@TheMinder: Ignore Eratosthenes reply to you. Pay close heed to all replies from him in the future.

@Eratosthenes: TheMinder is using Ubuntu. I believe you mistakingly thought he was on windows.

@TheMinder: I'm not sure how you have installed everything. The only thing you should have installed/running with wine are Pokerstars and/or Full Tilt. You haven't used the windows .exe installer, have you? Have you installed mysql, python, mysql-python, and pygtk with the ubuntu package manager? Have you gotten to the mysql> prompt in a terminal? Have you then succesfully followed this:

Now type this:
CREATE DATABASE fpdb;

Next you need to create a user. Type this (replacing newPassword with the password you want the fpdb user to have - this can, but for security shouldn't, be the same as the root mysql password):
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON fpdb.* TO 'fpdb'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'newPassword' WITH GRANT OPTION;

We aren't entirely sure he needs to do that - he says earlier that he managed to get through the install process on the wiki.

The packages you are looking for are (from memory)
python-mysqldb
python-matplotlib
python-numpy

For good value as it looks like we will eventually use it:
python-pypoker-eval

I tried the exact same procedure on my laptop computer, also running Ubuntu. The only exception was that I installed mysql, python, and pygtk though the synaptics (sic) package manager. Synaptics could not find mysql-python. When I tried to run fpdb.py I got EXACTLY the same error popups and messages as on my main system.

Yes, I can get a mysql prompt in terminal.
Yes, I could create the database.
Yes, I could grant the privileges