There are two small but significant changes in this update to how Poker Copilot works internally: A new system for detecting new hand history files means that the HUD appears almost instantly on a new table after completing the first hand; and a new system for detecting poker room table windows we developed for SeeingStars and integrated into Poker Copilot means Poker Copilot no longer needs to “control your computer.”
Because these changes could have consequences that didn’t appear during testing, we’re not making this an “auto-update”. You’ll need to manually download this update.
What’s changed
In OS X Mavericks, Poker Copilot no longer needs permission to control your computer.
If you have an Omaha addon license, you no longer need to enable Omaha in the Preferences.
“Mucked Cards” HUD overlay presentation is improved.
After playing your first hand at a new table, the HUD should appear almost instantly.
Today, I took a look at Lock Poker’s brand new native Mac software. It is rather good. And it should be possible to integrate it with Poker Copilot. However there are very few players, so it makes me wonder whether it is worth spending the time adding support for Lock Poker to Poker Copilot.
If you use Lock Poker on the Mac, let us know at support@pokercopilot.com that you’d like to see Poker Copilot work with Lock.
It is nice software, response, quite elegant, and it feels like Mac software. Oddly, the playing cards let it down – they are squashed, and awkward to read. Hopefully that’ll be fixed soon.
I hope not. But if you did, it is Poker Copilot’s cutesy way of presenting a crash report. Expand the “Details” panel and you’ll see some incomprehensible gobbledygook:
Those details are almost as incomprehensible to programmers as they are to you. At first. But as programmers spend time supporting software, they get better at analysing the crash reports. Over time they can use it to pinpoint some problems they didn’t know could exist.
Here’s what I do with Poker Copilot crash reports when I receive them.
Is this for the latest Poker Copilot update? If not, discard it, as the problem might now be fixed, and recent changes to code will make the crash report hard to use.
So it is for the current update? Use it to find the problem immediately, on the day the report was received. Fix the problem. Add the fix to the next Poker Copilot update.
Over time this makes a product more and more solid. At first the issues are common problems. Over time the problems that are left become esoteric problems that might affect one person a month.
Please do send crash reports when they happen. They do get to me. I do use them. In fact, I use them religiously because let’s face it, we want our software to be as solid as possible.
This is great news for Mac owners. You no longer need to pay for OS X updates, starting today with Mavericks (OS X 10.9).
This is also great news for people like me, running small software companies, as customers of our software will be much more likely to keep up-to-date with the latest OS X. That means less support, and more time for improving our software.
Poker Copilot works with Mavericks, although you’ll need to agree to OS X’s ominous-sounding request to let Poker Copilot “control your computer”. This, in the context of Poker Copilot, means, “keep track of where online poker room windows are on the screen”.
Okay, I’m off to install Mavericks on my MacBook Pro.
Last year I created a prototype for a product called SeeingStars. It shows your odds of winning the current hand on any PokerStars poker table. For personal reasons I shelved the prototype at the time. Now I’m publicly committing to launching by mid-November. It is a companion product for Poker Copilot; it is also an alternative for people who are poker hobbyists and don’t care for the comprehensive statistics and HUD of Poker Copilot.
SharkScope is a web-based tool for giving online tournament players every bit of information possible about other tournament players. It currently also has a HUD for Windows but nothing for Mac. But that could change with the help of Poker Copilot.
SharkScope recently released an API (Application Programming Interface) which allows other selected software to automatically connect to and share data with SharkScope. The SharkScope team has made the API available to Poker Copilot. I spent some time in the last couple days investigating what could be possible, and so far the results are promising.
