Great news. Are you sure about the deep tables? I haven't seen a HH for those.

Yes, I noticed this myself the other day. I only had a partial HH to work with before. Will be fixed in next release candidate.

Yes. I have not included the MySQL driver yet. I will see if I can get it in the next release candidate.

Certainly. The GUI was ported from GTK to Qt. I made a few changes along the way. Is there anything specific that I messed up/you want changed?

Thanks for the detailed report!

dl-ing for the first time on mac, what do i do to get this? i dl-ed fpdb-mac and when i try to open it just says it closed down unexpectedly. what else do i dl for it to work?

Are you on OSX 10.8 or lower? The binary doesn't work there unfortunately - a quirk of the packaging software I use.

If not, check out ~/.fpdb/logs and see if there's an information there.

^ yup i was, thanks

is there a starter manual somewhere? like how to save the layout and my preferences etc?

Ok guys had a little look and I like what I see, just wondered, is there anyway to add HIVE poker network? I play at Yachtingpoker and its actually becoming a good traffic site, just had their 1st 100K euro tourny 215 buy in and prizepool went up to over 150K so making numbers and also looks to be around 4th/5th in the pokerscout listings for traffic!

ANYWAY I have found thatsimply changing the .txt text from Hive Poker to Pokerstars will import as pokerstars hands so might be a very easy addition or is there a way to edit this myself?

thanks in advance for the help and happy holidays

****EDIT****Also I have now got something weird happening, i open fpdb.exe and it opens and instantly closes

Assuming Windows 7+, have a look in
%appdata%\fpdb\log
to see if there are file s
fpdb-errors.txt
fpdb-log.txt

Look for recent entries to see if they suggest a clue.

Note that hidden files and folders need to be turned on, and you need to have admin privileges.

Also, you need to run fpdb as an admin if you aren't already.

--D

@ phil_r

You're right about deep tables: the import of every hand fails. I can send you some hhs.

I can send you also some "No Rake Microstakes" hhs.

Is the email address given by ChazDazzle in the post #7128 (support at pokeit dot co) the right one for sending you the handhistories?


About the GUI (with fpdb v0.41.0-rc4, Windows 8, SQLite), I noticed the following:

- In the tabs the Xs (close tab) disappeared, so you can't close the tabs.

- in "Cash/Ring Player Stats" (and "Cash/Graphs") the left panels are larger than before (they waste space) and the interlinea of the right panel is bigger than before (other wasted space, with fewer rows visible).

- In the menus now are added underscore chars instead of underlined chars for menu shortcuts (i.e. _Help).

- Log Messages window sometimes appears under the main window.

- Refresh (calculate) buttons (i.e. Ring Player Stats) often don't work (blank result) at the opening of the tab, but work if you change the "From year" from 1970 to 1971 or more. With "From year"=1970 if you click many times the Refresh button in the Cash Graph tab, the right panel shrinks and then disappears.

Thank you for your work.

This is an overview of the config file. It's probably not very user friendly, just something I knocked up in a hurry. There are other old guides on the wikidot page that might help you, but be aware they are old.

If you have specific questions don't hesitate to ask here.

Yes, sounds like it should be easy to add. Send me a hand history if you like: philip.roberts@gmail.com

No, I am not Chaz or affiliated with his pokeit project.
As above, my email is philip.roberts@gmail.com - however I have installed swc and discovered you don't need to sit at a table to get hand histories, just observe. So I got some myself.


Yeah, I did that on purpose cos I thought they looked crappy in Qt (on mac). Do you care a lot about this?

Now that you mention it, the windows and linux versions both seem to have this problem with the left panels where mac doesn't so much. I think it's something with button sizes. I'll look into it. The row spacing thing is present on all platforms, I just didn't notice it before. I'll look at that too.

Yeah, I know. GTK annotates those shortcuts with an underscore. Qt does it with an ampersand. The problem is we have all these language translations that depend on exact strings, so changing all those underscores is a pretty huge (and ****ing boring, and error-prone) job. I'm leaning strongly towards just removing them, but I've been putting it off because while it looks crappy, it doesn't break anything.

I've never had this happen. I'll go as far as saying it shouldn't happen, so I've obviously made a mistake somewhere there. If I can reproduce it I'll try to track it down.

There are two bugs here. I found and fixed the first one (the date thing) yesterday. I've known about the second one for a while but haven't got around to fixing it yet since it doesn't hurt anything when the graph is being drawn correctly. It's on my todo list.

Looks like I have more to do! Thanks for taking the time to test and give such useful feedback.

For anyone using the Qt port on linux, I found an issue where the HUD likes to crash when ANY X window closes. I have identified the cause but it is far from an easy fix. Boring technical details follow:

The X HUD code uses a library called wnck to get window information. wnck is part of gtk, or gnome, or something. It imports pygtk. Importing pygtk and pyqt at the same time is a bad idea. So fixing this issue likely means replacing the wnck stuff with something else. Before wnck, fpdb used Xlib. Apparently that was not very stable either. Other options include xpyb and xcffib. An effective solution will probably require multithreading and some comparatively low-level X protocol handling. I am not excited by this.

tl;dr if you are using the HUD on linux you will probably have to restart it whenever it crashes for a while. I know why it happens but fixing it will suck.

Hi Phil, I reported every thing I noticed with the purpose the give you an useful feedback, but many thing are not important for me.

As for me, priorities are:
- MySql Driver;
- Wasted space in the left and right panels of the Stats.

Less important:
- Import of the few games still missed;
- Refresh Stats/Graphs buttons.

Not important:
- Shortcuts (I never use them);
- Xs to Close tabs;
- Graph panel shrinking.

About the Log Messages window under the main window, I'm not sure myself of the behavior. I saw it, but then I wasn't able to reproduce it. If I were to better understand this, I'll report.

OK, great. All these things should be fixed in my next release. You will be the MySQL guinea pig.

I would be glad to do.
I have a pretty good workbench to test MySql:
- MySql 5.6, one on localhost and one remote in the web;
- fpdb v0.40.5 working with both;
- lot of swc hhs, either already partially imported or totally new for the database, to test the bulk import;
- Opportunity to use the HUD/Autoimport functions on swc and Pokerstars.

Please tell me if there are issues or special things to focus on testing the MySql driver.

It's been a long time since I played online, and am now on America's Cardroom. Does fpdb work with that site?

At a quick glance I can't see any reference to ACR or WPN in the hand history converters. So probably not.

It could if someone wrote a HH converter for it. The HH converters are mostly a bunch of regular expressions, so anyone with some knowledge of those can probably copy an existing converter and adapt it to a new format.

Good news for linux users: I was slightly wrong about how awful this would be, and it's done. The wnck dependency is gone, replaced by xcffib. I installed it with pip. It may also be available via your distribution's package manager.

Patch is live on my github. Let me know if I ****ed anything up.

Does anyone use FPDB with Winamax (french poker room) ? I am trying to use it for five-handed tables but the HUD does not show up. However, I can easily import my hands, after a session, to see my stats.
I uses Windows 7 and the last version of FPDB.

Does anyone have some experience with that ? Thanks.

Is it this problem? You may need to do this and this.

If it is this problem, which FPDB did you install exactly? I thought I updated the default config in one of my recent releases.

I had this same problem when I first installed with .41.0rc3 (with Win7 and SWC). I updated to rc4 and rebooted and still had the problem. I then updated the shortcut to run the as administrator and that solved the problem.

I'm still working through the software but so far I'm impressed. Nice work guys ... so nice to have a HUD/DB again. Thank you!!!

Here's one for the database types.
I went through the database table by table, but cannot find out where the hand ranks are kept.

What I want to do is query the database to find every 5-Card Draw hand were I raised a certain hand in a certain position.

I would then use the list if hand ids returned to filter my other stats.

Is this even possible?

Cheers,
--D

AFAIK hand strength is not stored in the database - just the raw cards. Hand ranks are calculated as needed in ad hoc fashion. So yes, it's possible - but you'd be calculating it for all your hands each time.

I can't get the HH to save or HUD to work for tournaments (cash games work fine) on Sealswithclubs. Any advice?

If by 'save' you mean 'import', then sure. I have looked at this briefly. I believe the problem is SWC tournament HHs don't have a unique tourney ID so you would have to do some guesswork to work out which HHs correspond to each tournament. The import infrastructure isn't really set up for that kind of cleverness.

TL;DR seals tournament HHs are deficient. Maybe when they update their software the situation will improve.

have a couple questions...

how do i set my preferred seat on stars?
how do i configure my hud?
how do i save my settings? ( ie. every time i open software, only help screen is there and i have to reopen tabs and resize it. not that big a deal though)

thanks.