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"Window too small to track" problem

Some of you have been trying Poker Copilot 4’s “Dynamic” HUD for Rush Poker and Zoom Poker, and are always getting this message: “Window too small to track”. Until now I’ve been unable to reproduce this problem.

Today I used Parallels to create a fresh install of Mac OS X on a virtual machine. Happily, on that virtual machine I reproduced the problem. I saw “happily” because the first step to fixing a problem is being able to reproduce it. Now I have a situation in which I can add a load of diagnostic information and run Poker Copilot here in the lab to track down and fix the problem.

Sorry for anyone who is inconvenienced by this.

Poker Copilot 4 and Winamax

If you’ve used Poker Copilot 3 with Winamax successfully, and you’ve now upgraded to Poker Copilot 4, your “preferred seat” settings will have been reset. This was unavoidable, due to a subtle technical reason. (Read: I made a mistake in Poker Copilot 3). As a consequence the HUD panels will show on the wrong players.

Here’s how you can fix this:

First, in Winamax, select from the menu “Tools” -> “Options”:

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Then select “Game” -> “Options”, and make sure Preferred Seat is set to “Top”, “Right”, “Lower”, or “Left”:

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Now in Poker Copilot, open the Preferences, select the “Poker Rooms” panel, and set the Winamax Poker preferred seat to match:

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Now, you should find the HUD panels in the correct place for all Winamax tables.

 

Another Poker Copilot 4 Problem Squashed

Some long time Poker Copilot users have upgraded to Poker Copilot 4, and are getting this error message, causing a crash:

java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: 
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: 
Invalid value for casino id: 4

I believe I’ve now fixed this. You can download the fixed update here.

The problem was experienced by people who have hands from Absolute Poker or UB, two sites that have been defunct since Poker’s Black Friday.

Poker Copilot 4: Initial Problems

Thanks to everyone who has downloaded, tried, and purchased Poker Copilot. There are some initial problems that have arisen in the last couple of days now that many people are using Poker Copilot 4. Three problems dominate:

  1. When some people move the HUD panels around they keep jumping back to previous location. I believe I’ve now fixed this. You can try it out in this update.
  2. Poker Copilot 4 is crashing at startup for some people when it tries to convert their Poker Copilot 3 database to Poker Copilot 4. I hope to have a fix for this later today. (Update: Please try this update, which should fix the problem.)
  3. When using the Dynamic HUD, some people are seeing the “Window too small to track” message, no matter what size the window is. I hope to at least partially solve  this over the weekend. If a poker table window is at least 800 x 575 pixels in size it is large enough to track. This means the “Window too small to track” is being shown instead of the correct message. So the first step is to make Poker Copilot show the correct error message.

I appreciate your patience while I work feverishly on these problems.

Poker Copilot 4 Email Campaign

If you purchased Poker Copilot in the past, you most likely received one of two different emails I sent today. They both look like this:

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I have minimal design skills, but I think the emails look pretty good. That’s all thanks to MailChimp. I’m pleased with how easy it was to create an email campaign. The whole process felt much easier than it probably was. If you need to manage an email list or send out an email campaign, I’d recommend giving MailChimp a go.

This whole “launch a new major update” process is exciting, and nerve-wracking, and fun, all at the same time.

A HUD for Full Tilt Poker’s Rush Poker

Until now there has been no Head-up Display, or HUD, available on Mac OS X for Full Tilt Poker‘s Rush Poker. The forthcoming Poker Copilot 4 will introduce a HUD for Rush Poker.

You can try this out already in PCP Dallas EAP. It is still a work in progress. Make sure:

  • you have selected the “Dynamic HUD” in Poker Copilot’s HUD preferences
  • you are using the “classic” table theme
  • you have turned off “avatars”
  • your poker table window is as big as possible

Feedback is welcome.

 

Hand replayer, Retina displays, and stumbling upon a longtime bug

Poker Copilot’s hand replayer has a sleek new design in the forthcoming Poker Copilot 4. It takes full advantage of Retina displays to look crisp and detailed. 

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I made the mistake, however, of not regularly checking on a non-Retina display, so until today’s update of PCP Dallas EAP, the hand replayer looked a bit blurry on non-Retina displays. This problem is now mostly solved.

Today I’ve been running the hand replayer on two computers at once: a MacBook Pro with a Retina display, and a non-Retina iMac. When running the same hand, I was puzzled to see that the “Probability of winning” differed slightly for the same hand on the two different computers. This bug must have existed for years, and was never discovered and reported. The solution was simple: to ensure that the “Monte Carlo” simulation that calculates the probability of winning always uses the same starting parameters. The deck of cards used for the simulation was being prepared in a partly (although not really) random order.

I get an immense sense of satisfaction discovering and solving such problems.