So it sounds like you got a desired pot-button, but anything with images is failing.

Some other things that cause image functions to fail: Running BetPot.AHK from an unextracted zip file, or from a location other than the extracted folder (so it can't find the "StarsPics" folder). Similar effect by starting from a shortcut without "Working Directory" specified correctly.

changed

PicDir := "StarsPics"

to

PicDir := "C:\Documents and Settings\u\Desktop\WORKING\ahk scripts\BetPot-v0.2m\StarsPics"

and now it works perfect. the ahk script is in the BetPot-v0.2m folder like it should be it must be something with my computer i guess.

dave,

will betpot work with the silver buttons from the stars theme? or only the buttons from hyper-simple and default?

I have a member who needs a button patch, but the silver ones would look best.

thx,
Bar

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EDIT: In the current BetPot download, no. A new set of images is required. The rest of this post (pre-edit) speculates on the possibility of such resulting in success.
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They may or may not. I have not tried to make an image set for "Stars Theme", so currently I do not know.

It is to do with the OCR method I use to get the numbers from the call/raise buttons...

PokerStars uses 7 font sizes for lettering on the buttons, in a similar manner to the different card sizes 0-6 that I'm sure you are familiar with.

"Hyper Simple" has a plain background for the buttons, and "PokerStars Classic" has a predominantly plain (although slightly gradient-faded) background - this means the tolerances for OCR can be set quite low.

The "Stars Theme" seems to use quite a more heavily gradient-faded button background, and this may cause issues.

It will probably work, but the tolerance may need to be increased significantly to do so. Increasing the tolerance too much leads to false positives on the numbers, which I'm sure you can imagine is a disaster.

I'll give it a try and find out for sure. Will have to wait for the double VPP promo to finish (it takes a good few hours to capture/crop the required ~77 images). The gradient is more obvious than on "PokerStars Classic" but probably not much more so that it would cause failure.

I estimate success chance at ~80%

dave.

thx dave,

With that info, i believe i can taylor a set of OCR friendly buttons to meet my needs.

I would imagine that you prefer to leave your tolerences as tight as possible.

thx again,
Bar

Are button backgrounds allowed by xthemes, or would they be overwritten on any update?

I don't think the official silver buttons will require too much lowering of the tolerance - only i haven't tried it yet, so hedging my bets

the buttons can be included in the XThemes - no prob


you'll laugh when you see the theme in questions, though. Obv betpot ain't gonna work with these

http://psthemes.com/Demo/elite.htm

Lol there's no way those are gonna work - unless you never mouseovered buttons when script-betting, in which case they might.

nice themes tho - I have my PTY buttons do similar light-up on mouseover tricks

here is a patch for the elite theme.

http://psthemes.com/forum/index.php?...mod;dl=item117

i'm not 100% sure if this will work with BetPot or not.

If not, I will need to make the buttons lighter in color.

First of all, thanks a lot for making this script Dave. I'm having problems with the script when I shrink the PokerStars table to as small as they can get. I'm using Vista with a 1600x1200 resolution and the script works fine on all the other table sizes except the smallest. The middle wheel sroll still works, but it won't work when I bet. Is there a way to fix this?

any support for absolute poker planned in the future?

I'm sure this has been covered, but this thread is a monster to read. Is there anyway to make right clicking work in FTP or will it always bring up your table options?

remove the "~" from ~RButton:: so it looks like this:
RButton::

downside is that you won't be able to right click
anywhere in windows as long as the script is running.

dave,

I've edited the script in the past with no problems. I've been playing more SNGs lately and wanted to change my right click preflop raise amount. I did, but now right click zeros out the raise amount. I try to go back in and edit the script and it won't let me. I keep getting 'system cannot find the path specified'. I've repeatedly tried deleting and reloading the script, but the zeroing error still happens and I'm still not allowed to edit the script.

Any suggestions?

How to get AHK (betpot script) to work on vista.

steps:

- make sure you have latest version of AHK installed.

- make sure your local settings has been set for english(united states) control panel, 'clock, language and region', Regional and Language options.

- install latest version of Party Poker, right click on Party Poker shortcut, properties, compatibility tab, check "Disable desktop composition" and "Run this Program as an Administrator"

- install FPHG v2.09, right click on FPHG shortcut, properties, compatibility tab, check "Run this Program as an Administrator"

- get BetPot v0.2m from overcards.com. right click on BetPot-v0.2m.ahk, click "Compile script". now right click on BetPot-v0.2m.exe, properties, Compatibility tab, check "Run this program as an administrator"

- run Party, FPHG, and BetPot-v0.2m.exe, and you should be good to go. sometimes it takes a couple of hands for FPHG to start writing hhf files before BetPot works.

ryan helped me and should get the credit.

I tried out the betpot script with UB and the only action it does is make my bet size as 0 whenever I middle click. Right click does nothing. Any suggestions to get it to work?

I'm using Vista too, but I have stars and full tilt working with betpot so I don't think that is the problem.

UB requires BetPot to be started/reloaded after the lobby is open, similar to Crypto tables - make sure this is the case.

Wheel scrolling should function all the time as long as the script is loaded after UB. The pot functions are a bit less reliable, however... the UB pot code is a tad basic - pretty much an initial test that made it in to the download due to me having to post an update for FTP. It uses similar technique to Stars, but does not account for any variation in Windows themes - one must use "Windows Classic" theme (the one that looks like Win2K).

if you enable debug mode, you should see it scanning the button areas - which would make it obvious what is going wrong.

UB support wil be much improved in upcoming 3.0 version (which should be soon, now that double VPP is over).

I'm gonna have to get me a Vista one of these days

AJackson,

"I'm still not allowed to edit the script" - I would guess this is the root of your problems.

Try d/l it again, save/extract to a different than normal location, see if that helps?

What are you trying to do with your edits? post what you want, I'll post what you need

dave.

CSKJ / Ryan, thank you very much

I think this stage is not necessaary - and may well cause trouble. Future versions will not like to be run as compiled. If this is actually required for Vista, I will have to re-think my plans for forthcoming GUI

It should be enough to do this:

Go to "C:\Program Files\Autohotkey". now right click on Autohotkey.exe, properties, Compatibility tab, check "Run this program as an administrator"

Please Vista users, report success/failure.

dave.

fyi _dave_, one thing you may want to look at is the handling of commas for decimals in the script. the reason people need to change the setting to english (united states) is that the script is not handling the commas properly (or so it seems).

Hi, I just moved back to FT yesterday and noticed the bet pot script is not working the way it used to.
1) F hotkey no longer defaults to Fold to any bet. It now defaults to check/fold. I personally liked it the previous way. Is there any way for me to change it back?
2) I can't call a persons raise or limp in the pot with the hotkey C until its my turn to act. It wasn't always this way was it?
3) Right clicking brings up the table options. I read through the thread and found out that removing the ~ from rbutton works but now I can't use right click for any other programs while this script is running. Is there a better fix now?

Thx for any help

One other thing...Check hotkey does not even exist now? For PP I just pressed C for check and call but on FT i have to press F to check. Anyone know how to fix this?

Maybe I forgot to update chk/call command on FT after theit last update - it certainly should be there...

As to fold-to-any-bet - I got a few PMs complaining because behavior on Stars/Party was NOT fold-to-any, but fold in turn, so I changed it. Will put it back as an option if you want, no trouble.

dave.

Yes, Check does not work for me. Can anyone else confirm this?
I would love if you put fold to any bet as an option. Thx for everything dave!

Dave, any news on vista-compatibility party-betpot?