jillybean Posted January 26, 2009 Report Share Posted January 26, 2009 Hi,How do we invoke the new program? 'Myhands' hasnt changed, I am using http://online.bridgebase.com/myhands/index.php?offset=0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeavyDluxe Posted January 26, 2009 Report Share Posted January 26, 2009 http://online.bridgebase.com/myhands/index.php Think is the same link... But search for some of your hands, and click the MOVIE link next to the hand record. The new viewer pops up 'automagically', I think. Maybe if you have the Win client installed it defaults to that. I can't test that now, since I'm on my linux box. (ed. By the way, big thanks to Fred and company!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquiry Posted January 26, 2009 Report Share Posted January 26, 2009 empty your browser cache. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G_R__E_G Posted January 26, 2009 Report Share Posted January 26, 2009 Your "myhands" will not change. What changes is what happens when you watch a movie from it - it now should be via your web browser. Very cool Fred!!! Having all of the hand info in the link will make editing hands a breeze. I've had a look and figured most of it out - now you'll just need to teach me how to add comments. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fred Posted January 26, 2009 Report Share Posted January 26, 2009 Very cool Fred!!! Having all of the hand info in the link will make editing hands a breeze. I've had a look and figured most of it out - now you'll just need to teach me how to add comments.Thanks Greg - I am glad you like it :D I suggest you don't get too involved in figuring out how it works just yet. Within the next few days we will hopefully be able to release some documentation that will describe some easier ways to create various types of presentations (easier than manually editing a lin file I mean). At this point in time the Handviewer does not support annotations, but it is likely that I will implement something along those lines before too long. The whole thing is still very much a work in progress. By the way, it seems to work fairly well on the iPhone and will probably work on just about any mobile device that can run a web browser. You can send your friends text messages that contain links to movies and they will be able to view the movies on their phones :) Fred GitelmanBridge Base Inc.www.bridgebase.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trumpace Posted January 26, 2009 Report Share Posted January 26, 2009 Sorry for using this thread for asking this question. Is there a way we can download the files for later use etc? (Not necessarily my own hands, which I can find on my hard drive). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquiry Posted January 26, 2009 Report Share Posted January 26, 2009 I was wondering how I could save a hand now to my computer? I save a lot of hands from myhands site. Some for posting in the forum (thanks to lincoverter.exe), some for putting into nice display using Bridge Composer, others for my own purposes. However, the right click and save as generates an error message, rather than opening the hand. I am using a work-around, in which I open the hand in a new browser (BTW, seems you can only open one at a time, is this true - opening in new window or new tab generates error messages)? and copy the entire address line into a text file. When you do that, you get something like this..... http://www.bridgebase.com/tools/handviewer.html?lin=pn|South player,West Player,North Player, East Player|st||md|2S35H237JD4KC23589,S6QH4TKAD257AC46K,S78KAH56QD68TQC7T,|rh||ah|Board%208|sv|o|mb|1N|mb|p|mb|2H!|an|tr|mb|p|mb|2S|mb|p|mb|3N|mb|p|mb|p|mb|p|pc|D6|pc|D3|pc|DK|pc|DA|pc|SQ|pc|SA|pc|S2|pc|S3|pc|DQ|pc|D9|pc|D4|pc|D2|pc|D8|pc|DJ|pc|H2|pc|D5|pc|SJ|pc|S5|pc|S6|pc|S7|pc|ST|pc|C2|pc|H4|pc|SK|pc|DT|pc|S4|pc|H3|pc|D7|pc|H5|pc|H9|pc|HJ|pc|HA|pc|HK|pc|H6|pc|H8|pc|H7|pc|C4|pc|C7|pc|CJ|pc|C3|pc|S9|pc|C5|pc|HT|pc|S8|mc|9| Just delete the first bunch of characters up to and including the equal sign. Copy multiple hands and put into a single file and you can use find and replace to remove all the http:// stuff at once. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquiry Posted January 26, 2009 Report Share Posted January 26, 2009 ok... silly me I should have figured this out quicker, but i found a way to open more than one hand.. just click on however amny you want, then use ALT-LEFT or ALT-Right arrow key in place of teh missing forward and back button on the browser, you can go through all of them that way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fred Posted January 26, 2009 Report Share Posted January 26, 2009 Sorry for using this thread for asking this question. Is there a way we can download the files for later use etc? (Not necessarily my own hands, which I can find on my hard drive). I suppose there is no completely trivial way to do this anymore (but see Inquiry's good suggestion for a workaround). If the Handviewer program is sufficient for whatever you might want to do with these files in the future, another alternative is to just save the link itself. If more people ask for this then I suspect we will produce a more convenient way of saving the actual lin files before too long. In the mean time, sorry about the inconvenience. Fred GitelmanBridge Base Inc.www.bridgebase.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jillybean Posted January 26, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2009 Will we get Double Dummy analysis in the new movies? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fred Posted January 27, 2009 Report Share Posted January 27, 2009 Will we get Double Dummy analysis in the new movies? Not currently, but maybe one day. Fred GitelmanBridge Base Inc.www.bridgebase.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orlam Posted January 27, 2009 Report Share Posted January 27, 2009 Is this just javascript? Coooooool! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomi2 Posted January 27, 2009 Report Share Posted January 27, 2009 i would strongly like a way to have links to the old myhands page because i liked to save the files and watch them on my pc, most important was the GIB icon, because i wanted to check, if there is a double dummy way available to play better! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquiry Posted January 27, 2009 Report Share Posted January 27, 2009 Three small gotcha's and one huge OH NO to my copy the address bar thing.... here is what I do... First small gotcha, to get rid of the I paste it into excel, and then convert text to column, using the = (equal sign) as the thing that defines new columns. This gives you the hand in the "b" column. Second small gotcha is that spaces are replaced with percent sign, so i do a global find and replace, and change % to a space. This changes things like Board%1 to Board 1. That is the good news. Now for the bad news. The |pg|| command that normally separates the end of the bidding and the opening lead, and at the end of each round of play are all missing. So the hand jumps immediately to the end of play. So the the third gotch is that each auction ends with |p|p|p| so you might write a macro to put a |pg|| after every p|p|p| but that causes a funny pg after first three passes. So a better solution is to globally replace mb|p|pc| with mb|p|pg||pc Now for the huge OH NO. There is no page command between the play. Basically what we need to do is find pc|??|pc|??|pc|??|pc|??| where ?? are wildcards, then delete that, then paste right back there the cut text plus pg||. Find, Replace with find what text plus pg||. (fiind each trick, and put new page command after each page). All this needs to managed by macros, and it would be helpful to also add QX|o1|, qx|02|, etc to each hand you paste into excel. I have a macro that does all of that EXCEPT the find and replace play issue. Of course you could find each pc| and replace it with pg||pc| but then each card is played individually rather than one trick at a time. That is how I have it working right now, as I am not good at wildcards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdr_fm Posted January 27, 2009 Report Share Posted January 27, 2009 Hi The new format looks great ... but ... I think you will find alot of users including myself like/want to be able to save the hands in .lin format to use gib on them, or do whatever else. Other than that very nice. Should be possible to add a small save button ? :> One other tiny issue is also long auctions, you cant see the lot and need to scroll up/down. Minor Overall thumbs up Karel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jillybean Posted January 28, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2009 Hi The new format looks great ... but ... I think you will find alot of users including myself like/want to be able to save the hands in .lin format to use gib on them, or do whatever else. Other than that very nice. Should be possible to add a small save button ? :> One other tiny issue is also long auctions, you cant see the lot and need to scroll up/down. Minor Overall thumbs up Karel Ditto - I had not realized the save function had disappeared until now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infidel Posted January 28, 2009 Report Share Posted January 28, 2009 I HATE it I HATE it I HATE it...I don't use the browser-based access because I prefer the older format, and wish I could keep it for hand review also. I did find that if I "open a bridge movie" from the desktop icon, it still comes up the old way, but that eliminates some other features. I hope I'm not simply resisting anything because it's new, but the newer format just feels wrong to me, and I'm uncomfortable with it. I'd really appreciate being able to continue pulling up the older format. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fred Posted January 28, 2009 Report Share Posted January 28, 2009 There is now a second link ("lin") in the movie column. If you click on one of these links you will be able to save the appropriate .lin file (or open it using the Windows BBO client). If you do not see these links try refreshing the page. If that doesn't work, close your browser, open a new one, clear the cache, and try again. Fred GitelmanBridge Base Inc.www.bridgebase.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emma Posted January 28, 2009 Report Share Posted January 28, 2009 I don't like it. I hate the web BBO client too. I just feel very uncomfortable. Thanks for the lin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y66 Posted January 29, 2009 Report Share Posted January 29, 2009 I like it! Very handy. Sorry. :huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeavyDluxe Posted January 29, 2009 Report Share Posted January 29, 2009 The more I fiddle with this little gadget, the more I like it. My only suggestion (and this holds for the rawkin' flash client as well): It'd be for learners like me to be able to focus on one hand and 'blank' out the others, a la the 'kibitz N' command in the Win client. Thanks Fred and team for the great site and the great toys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bb79 Posted January 30, 2009 Report Share Posted January 30, 2009 I like the handviewer especially when I use a computer without a windows bbo client installed. I have one suggestion, is it possible to put an option to remove played cards (instead of changing their color to light gray) because the played cards distract me when analyzing end positions. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emma Posted February 3, 2009 Report Share Posted February 3, 2009 The instructions contain something new: details for how to add annotations to your bridge movies. This makes it possible to use the Handviewer to display presentations similar to those that appeared for many years in "The Deal of the Week". I don't understand how to add annotations to my movies.There is no place where I can write.I am not an expert with computers and I can't figure out how this works. I also tried the handviewer on BBOflash but it didn't work.A message says: couldn't load.lin file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulg Posted February 3, 2009 Report Share Posted February 3, 2009 I'm using Handviewer to display hands on my blog (example). My only complaint is that I prefer to see X and XX in the auctions, as the D and R are less noticeable as the are similar to the P. I can use 'x' or 'd' in the description but D is always the result. Paul Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fred Posted February 3, 2009 Report Share Posted February 3, 2009 I'm using Handviewer to display hands on my blog (example). My only complaint is that I prefer to see X and XX in the auctions, as the D and R are less noticeable as the are similar to the P. I can use 'x' or 'd' in the description but D is always the result. PaulGreat to see, Paul! This is exactly the sort of thing that we were hoping for when we created this program. I hope the readers of your blog like the presentation. Thanks for the suggestion regarding X and XX. Someone else mentioned this and I actually meant to change it for the most recent release, but forgot to do so. I will make sure to get this right for the next release. Fred GitelmanBridge Base Inc.www.bridgebase.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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