You all have probably encountered the following problem on pokerstars:
When playing multiple tables in a stack, a table usually pops up to the front if it requires action. When acted on that table, the next in line pops to the front.
Everything works fine, unless you move a table out of the stack for an important decision or special attention. When the single table on the side requires action, the pop-to-front-when-action-needed in the stack doesn’t work any more. The tables time down somewhere in the stack and you never get to see them.
Ideally i would like to continue playing the stack while timing down on the single table on the side, thinking about a big decision.
Or play multiple stacks, ie. 9 stacks on a 30" moitor with 3 tables each.
I did write a script to do this in AHK, but the ahk’s read-pixel functions (to detect tables with required action) are so slow that it doesnt work well with 24 tables.
this is the pseudo-code of what i need..
every time the software plays the "attention reqired" sound, it needs to launch this function:
Code:
multistackpopup()
{
for i:= 1 to number_of_tables
{
if actionrequired(i)
{
for j:= 1 to number_of_tables
{
//if table without action req is OVER table with action
req then move table without action req to bottom
(so that i can see the table with action req)
if (Z_index(j) > z_index(i))
and (xcoordinates(i) = xcoordinates(j))
and (ycoordinates(i) = ycoordinates(y))
and (NOT actionrequired(j)))
{movetobottomofstack(j)}
}
}
}
as you see, it would be super-easy to implement this into the pokerstars-software and would make everyone happier. (i think everyone wants this, but most of the players dont know how to explain the issue issue and how easy a solution would be)