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Thanks and my apologies to mme. I was not aware that he was involved with this project. If this is specifically related to FPBD then why is it not posted in that thread instead of a new one?
As mme stated, this is his own thing. He was interested specifically in coding an open source implementation that could potentially be used by many project not just FPDB.
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Originally Posted by APerfect10
From my perspective, I see a new thread titled "How does PokerTracker Get Data..." -- I'm not sure how I was supposed to correlate that this was related to FPBD when it was never referenced. That is why I asked the questions.
I've been told that PT is doing something different to other HUDs, as it seems to be able to reliably update users while the table window is obscured.
From what i've been told PT is the only HUD able to do this at the moment, hence the thread title.
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Right now we have a major competitive advantage as no one knows how we support ZOOM (other than some on the PokerStars development team). Why would we voluntarily share that information and allow our competitors to catch up? There is a reason that we were able to have a working ZOOM HUD available the exact day ZOOM was released whereas other competitors either took weeks or still do not have support at all.
It strikes me as very odd that Stars would provide a competitive advantage to anyone in this area.
The options (at least superficially) would appear to be:
a) There is an open, but hidden API provided by the Stars client that all projects could potentially use
b) PT is doing something clever that we haven't thought of yet
c) PT is doing something that actually violates the ToS of Stars
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d) Stars is actually providing a competitive advantage to a commercial product they haven no affiliation with.
If it is a) or b) then it would be nice to come up with a solution. If c) or d) no-one should be happy with the current status-quo.
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just as an addendum ..i will not continue this thread because:
a) all questions i had on the subject where answered, thanks stars
b) fpdb settled on aiming for cross platform / universal theme support for HUDs
thanks as well to derek. be on your toes when a scare card hits when playing him ;-)
Please do continue mme!
You are aware of gimicks work in the area, and its limitations at the moment. I think a combination of your efforts and his are most likely to produce the result we are looking for.
Sorrow