in <site> add bgcolor="#cc00cc" (ie. Color in html style) fgcolor="#xxxxxx" and opacity="0.5" (opacity value 0-1)

opacity only works in linux if there you are running a compositor, i think it works by default under windows.

My plan is to put the table stats in that window and actually locate it somewhere less annoying. You should be able to double click that window and then drag it somewhere out of the way. If there is a HUD_config.xml (NOT HUD_config.xml.example) in the folder where you start fpdb from, it will use that file. If not, it looks here:

Windows: c:\Documents and Settings\Clemenza\Application Data\fpdb\
(= Appdata\fpdb)
Linux: ~/.fpdb/

In that file you should see something like this:

All that stuff between "site" and "layout" might be on one long line, that doesn't hurt anything.

SAVE A COPY OF THIS FILE BEFORE YOU START EDITING!

As you might suspect to change the the colors you change the bgcolor and fgcolor attributes. In the above example they are in hex, so that "#000000" = black and "#FFFFFF" = white. You could also use "black" and "white" but that seems awfully ungeeklike. I am not sure what colors work besides black and white, but I know that "red", "green" and "blue" work. "purple" works so does "pink" If you want to use the hex codes "#FF0000" is red, "#00FF00" is green, and "#0000FF" is blue. Get the rest of the colors by mixing those.

If your config file doesn't have the color attributes, you can just add them.

Setting opacity was causing a nasty side effect in windows, so I turned it off for this release--for windows only. Eric has already found a fix for that, so opacity will be supported in the next release.

Excellent!

To change the colors, I used the HUD_config.xml file in the pyfpdb folder (where I start fpdb from) and added the background and foreground color lines. I didn't try adding opacity since I'm on Windows XP.

Thanks!

My tables are maximized (on Pokerstars) but this window is still a little too big and overlaps with a stat window (although this poses no problem). I would imagine it would be more of a problem if one used smaller tables. I had more or less assumed what Eratosthenes has stated, that it will eventually show the table statistics and is a placeholder at the moment.

If need be you can abbreviate the message that appears in this window by editing Hud.py, line 74.

I will give opacity a try (on Linux) at some point; it sounds like fun. I don’t normally run a compositor as my computer is a bit crap, but I’ll give it a shot.

I opened Hud.py (right click > pythonwin) and removed some words from the message and now the window is smaller. Problem solved!

Thanks!

i run my opacity at 0.75, it really does add to the niceness a lot more than you'd think it would.

on my current tree, all the stat windows, and the hud window now have opacity working in windows, and they can all be dragged wherever you want on the fly using left-mouse-drag. Pop-ups and menus are all on right mouse. It's up to Steffen, I guess, if that's going to be a Windows-only change to work around some GTK issues, or what.

of course, i'd love to add a nice fancy dialog to configure all your colors and other options, but at the current poitn, i don't know near enough about gtk, python, or pygtk, to start building anything of that sort.

sounds like a good program but i got lost after i downloaded it and tried installing.....i will wait for installer type program to be released.....cant wait thou

A configuration dialog is getting pretty high on my to do list. I don't want to start on that while we are still adding HUD features (or, at least, not while we are adding them so frequently), because I don't want to write it to a moving target. To that end, we should be writing down features we are planning to add in the foreseeable future. That way we can add those things to the config file and I'll have something to write a config gui to.

1. Decide features.
2. Stabilize config file.
3. Write config gui.

Did you see the instructions in the Wiki? They're pretty concise now (well, for Win2k/XP that is, Vista is a bit of a PITA).

I'd say it's probably better to have dragging on the left mouse button and menues on the right one because, well, that's how every other program does it
Any objections? If not I'll pull this later.

I added a mini-walkthrough (in sourceforge wiki) to set PostgreSQL as database engine in windows.

I've downloaded and installed the 80 meg executable package and installed, restarted comp, etc.. and downloaded and extracted the smaller one (lol sorry im not too technical)

I edited the line in HUD_config.xml to correspond with mysql password

when I run fpdb.py I get the following msg:

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 install 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 HUD_config.xml

and then the "command" window terminates, and nothing else happens...

any ideas? I don't want to try any execute any other files and risk making things worse.

Thx, look forward to trying out your software

Normally you should quote the contents of these files and one of the developers will be able to help you.

But judging by the fact that you didn’t even see the FPDB main window, the problem is probably that the database is not running. Try starting the database first and see if that does the trick.

If that don't help you, try installing postgreSQL instead of MySQL as database engine. I had problems to run the program with MySQL and that works for me.

I think it stopped working after the latest PokerStars update. Did they change their hand history format?

They did for CET - I thought this was fixed in alpha9, i'll followup in a few hours.

I'm having no problems with fpdb on PokerStars since the new update.

If you change you timezone to CET it is broken

So far there is only one mailing list fpdb-main on SourceForge. It would be nice to have low traffic fpdb-announce list. I want to follow this project, but fpdb-main is too developer oriented for me. I know there is news RSS feed, but I find announce lists more convenient. Is it possible to have such a list? Thank you.

Sounds reasonable.

I've got a patch which fixes it in my tree, http://trac-git.assembla.com/fpdboz/...8a700ebcf73ade

Only the changes to fpdb_simple.py are needed to fix.

eratosthenes or steffen should have a paper bag release out in a day or two.

How is it going with FullTilt? Want the HUD to be working for MTT ASAP

Trying to install this for the first time. Do I need to install MySQL if I plan on using PostgreSQL for the DB? I tried following the SQL DB instructions and got stuck right away.

I dont see anything resembling 'login roles' within pgadmin.

I'll try and help, i'm not much chop with Postgres - and i'm a linux user.

Basically you need to create a database (schema in postgres?) and a user that can create tables and update it. Fpdb can do the rest. Fpdb cant create the database.

You don't need to install mysql if you plan on using postgres, you do need the rest of the environment though.

ekdikeo recently got the graph running in windows. Take a look at https://****************/mailarchive/...name=fpdb-main once you get it working.

The installer hasn't had an update in some time, but the rest of the app has moved on quite a bit.