Hi all,

Quick report on initial experiences with installing 0.22.

Machine is a laptop, Intel Core Duo T2540, 2GB RAM, running Windows XP (sp2).

(Kind of experienced user - since - idk - 0.11???)


Before I start I should make plain that I 'm very appreciatiative of the work the devs have put into this project.


Software installed ok. Databases recreated ok.

Bulk import kept freezing, even on relatively small files / numbers of files. Also the bulk import seems to take over fpdb. Could it not be a subprocess? Presumably many people bulk importing would like to set that going and then get back to looking at other stuff &/or getting the HUD up.

Graphs, stats etc worked well as far as I tested on the 1k or so hands I have managed to import. (Well - I don't know if they are accurate, but it all looked reasonable .)

Used the HUD configurator to set up a HUD for HMNL. I'm very pleased to see that fold to 3bet, 4bet etc are now available, although I haven't looked at the .py files yet to see if it is more reasonable creating one's own custom stats than was hitherto the case.

(I had cooked my own ft3b, 4b stats around 0.13 and again at 0.20, but it was a huge pain - the code was easy, just finding the 50 odd places scattered around to put in cases for them was frustrating.)

Playing on Ongame. Got up the HUD. Was organised as promised by the HUD configurator - pretty slick.

1 tabling: HUD took in the first hand and displayed changed outcomes, but then did nothing more discernible.

I killed fpdb by stopping the process - there didn't seem any other way of escaping. Maybe we need some user interrupts &/or try statements?

Restarting fpdb and the HUD I was pleased to see that fpdb picked up the missed hands. From then on the HUD updated every hand and the stats looked ok (total~40 hands).

I then tried opening another table. The HUD tried to bring up stats for the second table.

Unfortunately this didn't work. The focus flicks backwards and forwards between the two table windows. As they were slightly overlapping it was plain to see that they were each being bought to the fore frequently. The HUD then froze both fpdb and the poker site client (without ever showing stats on the second table). I had to kill both with the XP process manager.

I got Ongame client back up and tried again with one table. Several times I got no HUD at all. I tried combinations of starting/stopping tauto-import, closing and opening the autoimport tab, and closing and opening fpdb.

Finally got the HUD back up. But opening a second table caused exactly the same problems as above.

Let me know if you want more details - sorrow has my pm

Hi, replies inline. I only replied to part of it, i'll leave HUD-related things to someone else.
Thanks
Bulk import does take over the GUI. However, it shouldn't freeze. Did you get the little window that displays the progress (by files)? If it did freeze, could check the logs to see on which files please.
Yes that stuff is a little all over the place. However, you can at least reduce the repetition - if you submit your patches to us we can include them, and then you wont have to re-implement stats (or other features) for each new release.
One key bit would be your OS&version.

Cheers, Steffen

Thanks Stef,

Yes- the little window on the imported did freeze *repeatedly*.

I could start sending files - but HEM imports them & I'm pretty sure they aren't really corrupt - my experiences with 0.20 was that fpdb was at least as robust as HEM,

Just to try to figure out what I'm looking for - if Bulk Import can't cope with a particular (single) hh, would that cause the program to freeze, or ought it to fail to import and pass on to the next hh to try that?

OS news: somewhere in the post was buried that this is XP (sp2) - ie vanilla as can be XP Pro

Yes, right at the top you mentioned lol. My bad.
As for the files, one likely cause of the failure is that its not the files, but the parser that is corrupt. So we need to identify the file, fix the bug, and, with your permission, add a hand or file to our regression testing system.

tchaz - for the HUD issue, could you join us in IRC? http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=fpdb

bah I gave up after 3hrs of waiting for 'sudo port install pygtk' as it got stuck on building 'gcc'.

I'll have to do this again another time.

Wish there was a 'homebrew' formulae for pygtk. I don't like the idea of having more than one package manager on my OS X and I've had to install macports just for this.

GCC does take a while, it's 20-25mins for me (4*2.2GHz, Linux64) so depending on your system's compile speed that may have been realistic. Can't comment on the rest, never had a Mac, would suggest you contact the support of those pkg managers.

fresh install of macports (so /opt/local/bin was empty I imagine)
sudo port install py26-gtk has resulted in this so far (still going)


[05:57 pm] me@xxx [~/] $ ls -l /opt/local/bin | wc -l
372

The importer seems pretty unhappy with these Ongame hands and this version of the HUD seems pretty solid. Therefore, I would suggest that we sort the import Ongame import problems before diving in to the HUD.

I just installed all the dependencies yesterday, gcc and atlas will take the longest. I found that gcc will get there, you just have to be patient. Atlas seemed to freeze up on my machine after an hour or so, so I just ^C and run the port command a second time, and it picks up where it left off and finishes fairly quickly.

Using the -d or -v switch to the port command will give you more output when installing from macports, so you can actually tell that it is doing something.

Hello....So, I've installed all the dependenies but am still using sqllite and I cant get graphs to work...all I see is a blank screen

Windows xp, python 2.6

Are you still tracking my git repo tchaz?

FYI - I fixed a major issue with OnGame only yesterday that isn't currently in any release.

If bulk import is hanging, then one of the files you are importing is almost certainly crashing - can oyu forward any problem files too me please?
See comment above on OnGame fix. The more aggro the game is, the more likely you will see accounting errors.
The process is still largely the same, but a bit cleaner now. You still need to get things right in multiple places though.
When you posted this, my repo was broken for HUD with similar symptoms to the above. Are you still tracking my repo?

From memory OnGame renames all files on startup, so you need to clean out the directory for 'correct' behavior.

It depends on the failure. The parser is becoming more and more robust and should just skip over most issues, but even now i'm finding some odd corner cases that cause crashes. eg. In 0.21/0.22 If an a player sat out after posting an ante in a cash game this would crash, i've only seen this on FTP blind games.

Sorrow

sqlite shouldn't be the issue - have you installed matplotlib?

hi,

how do i change the stat's color? hucolor doesn't work, stat_hicolor doesn't work?

Should work - hith = high threshold, loth = low threshold.

Yes....still no go....thinking of trying it on a different comp....

which fpdb version are you using?
have you installed numpy?
might be worth installing the exe package and seeing if that works (backup your config and db first thou)
if still not working can you check fpdb.log and fpdb-error.log files for any unusual messages

i have a prob.maybe its in here but i can't find it.

i opened maximised the pokerstars window and put the stats in their place and saved.
then i moved the win to the upper right corner and reduced its size. the stats are not moving along.
since then, i cannot get the stats to show in the right upper corner, they keep appearing where they were first saved. i tried reposition stats but nothing works.

what can i do ?

My understanding of the stats is that they move with the table, mine do, but NOT if you resize the table. When you fullsized it, and saved your stats, that's where they are going to appear when you shrink it down. Set the size you want to play with, then set the stats and save. They will move with the table... assuming you are using .22 version. But, if you decide to resize your table you will need to relocate the stats where you want them to be.

Dog

im not taling about one session. i just changed my mind and permanently i want the table smaller and up in the corner, but i cant get the stats there. if i put them there and save next time i open the table they go back to the original point with the maximized table.

I just downloaded this and then registered just to post thanks to all involved in the production of this. A really great free alternative, it may not look very pretty, but it gets the job done and then some. Thanks again!

umm its fixed, i copied the <layout> tags from ftp to pokerstars in the hud config.xml, cause the window size was wrong.

Hello everyone,
The new fpdb release 0.24 is now available for download as source or as packages/installers for Debian, Gentoo, Ubuntu and Windows.
This version brings many improvements and bugfixes. A quick word on our version naming: We have decided to stop using the usual alpha/beta/rc release system as it doesn't suit fpdb's development style and resources. From now on all releases are created equal (ie. considered "testing"). If they proof themselves we declare them "stable" and make them the default download on sourceforge. If you wish to be notified of new releases or stabilisation please subscribe to the fpdb-announe mailing list (see Links further down).

So... what is FPDB?
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FPDB (Free Poker Database) is a free/open source suite of steadily growing tools to track and analyse your online poker game. FPDB is able to import the hand histories that poker sites write to your computer and to store additional data from each hand in a database for use in later analysis.

FPDB is ambitious, intending to support all games. Currently we support flop based games (Hold’em, Omaha, Omaha Hi/Lo), stud games (7 Card Stud, 7 Card Stud Hi/Lo, and Razz) and draw games (Triple Draw Lowball, 5 Card Draw) on most major poker sites.

FPDB provides a Heads Up Display (HUD), Profit Grapher and Stats viewers with a list of features that is growing.

What's changed
==============
266 changesets (incl. merges) have gone in since 0.22. Some of the improvements, in no particular order, are:

- New translations, and much progress on the existing ones. Fpdb is now fully translated into Hungarian, Italian and French
- Bulk import now shows more information during import
- Various visual fixes
- Improved session handling
- Various site/parser improvements, e.g.:
Support for Partouche (in the Everleaf parser), initial support for PacificPoker
Support for Full Tilt Poker Draw tourneys, 2-7 Single Draw, RIT hands and more
Support for OnGame tourneys
Support for Pokerstars Mixed Holdem tourneys
Support for Winamax satellites
Support for CAD espacejeux.com games
Record whether someone showed their hand or not
Better support for play money, freerolls, VPP-tourneys etc. (note that play money remains a low priority for us)
- Improvements to rushaux - testing volunteers please contact gimick
- Restore postgresql support
- Fix handling of config file on Linux&Mac
- The Windows exe installer is now upgraded to Python 2.7. It warns on Vista/7 if user tries to run HUD without admin rights.
- It now runs on OSX (please join us in IRC for details)
- Various other improvements and fixes

For the full changelog or to look at ongoing development please visit http://trac-git.assembla.com/fpdb/timeline

How to download/update
======================
Please note that you will have to either recreate your database or use a new one if you're updating from 0.22 or older. Fpdb will warn you if your database is incompatible and will not work properly unless you recreate or use a new one.
Config files from 0.20 and later should work. Please report if you have problems with config files from that version or later.
You can find checksums (MD5 and SHA512) in the download folder.
To download: http://****************/projects/fpdb/files/fpdb/0.24/

Links
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To be notified by email of new versions you can subscribe to our announce mailing list here: https://lists.****************/lists/.../fpdb-announce
Link to fpdb website (wiki) http://fpdb.wiki.****************/
Features page: http://****************/apps/mediawik...title=Features
How to install&setup fpdb in 5 Minutes with the Windows installer: http://sf.net/projects/fpdb/files/fpdb/help/ Choose exe021install.avi (18mb, no sound)
Installation instructions are available from: http://****************/apps/mediawik...e=Installation
Getting Started Instructions: http://****************/apps/mediawik...etting_Started
FAQ: http://****************/apps/mediawik....php?title=FAQ
Screenshots: http://****************/apps/mediawik...le=Screenshots

How to help
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Join us in IRC (see below) and say you want to do something

How to get help
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Please also see the "Bug reports" section below to enable us to help you.
These are listed in order of usefulness - the 2+2 thread in particular is rather chaotic so if we miss your post feel free to bring it up again
1) Chat/IRC
One of the developers is usually around, but it is IRC. Dont get discouraged because we didn't answer within 10 minutes, once we do you've probably got our full attention.
This link takes you to a website where you can talk to us directly: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=fpdb
Alternatively use can use any IRC client to connect to #fpdb on freenode.net
2) Mailing List
Visit http://lists.****************/lists/listinfo/fpdb-main to subscribe to the development&support mailing list and send us an email
3) The monster 2+2 forum thread (registration required).
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/16...2009-a-273001/ Please dont let the size of the thread phase you. It is monitored and sends email notifications to some of the developers. (Note: If you play poker and don't frequent the 2+2 forums, you may want to become better acquainted. Its a bit daunting at first, but well worth the effort)

Bug reports
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When you do report issues, try to make it easier for us help you. We usually need at least the following information:
- Operating system and version (e.g. Ubuntu 10.10 or Windows XP)
- Database type (MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL)
- Install method (exe, tarball, deb, git, ebuild)
- Fpdb version
- Site name and gametype (e.g. $10 Pokerstars Razz SnG)
You can find most of these details for easy copy&paste in the Help menu under About.

Important known problems
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PKR is not working correctly
There's a problem with some Euro games on Pokerstars

Notice for Windows users
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First-time installs may need to download and install the C++ runtime executable from Microsoft.
Windows 7 and windows Vista users will need to set fpdb.exe and hud_main.exe to run as administrator (see http://****************/apps/mediawik...all_in_Windows)

Notice for Arch Linux users
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You will need to change the shebang in fpdb.pyw and HUD_main.pyw from python to python2. Join us in IRC if you have questions about this.

Contributors
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(this list isn't quite complete - if you're missing please get in touch, I'm working on a new more detailed list)
Code/translations: Worros, Donoban, Nutomatic, Steffen, Chaz Littlejohn, Scott Wolchok, tribumarchal, Erki Ferenc, Eric Blade, atinm, Mika Bostrom, Robert Wielinga, Chris Moore, Gerko de Roo, Gimick, Seppone, Wedges, José Luis Ledesma, pkpkpkdo
Special shoutout to Eleatic Stranger who has written an initial converter for Carbon poker, without ever having played on the site!
Documentation: RSOAndrew, Buggernaut, ChazDazzle
Testers and everyone answering forum questions - xaviax, Dog, uncooper etc. You know who you are.
Hand History donations: Quite a few people on this list now. Every donation for alternate sites and various corner cases is appreciated.

And a particular thanks to all the libraries, interpreters etc. that we use to create fpdb!

Oh could a mod please change the thread title to "Free/open source poker tracking software: FPDB - (stable v0.22, testing v0.24) - 15Apr" and change the testing link in the original post to the announcement I just posted? Cheers