paulg Posted February 3, 2009 Report Share Posted February 3, 2009 [Great 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.Naturally I get the complaints first and will have to wait and see what others think. One does not like the new look of it. More importantly (to me), another cannot read it at work as the bridgebase.com site is blocked by the corporate firewall (Symantec). He's never been able to play bridge at work but now cannot read my blog .... apparently a near disastrous situation :) But this is early days (hours actually). Certainly the movie aspects of handviewer are unique and this might prove to be its most useful feature. Paul Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emma Posted February 3, 2009 Report Share Posted February 3, 2009 I tried to create and display hands with handviewer but didn't succeed. I don't know what is an Iframe and how it works. Actually I understand nothing to the notice. This feature must be for people with high computer skills I guess. And I am just a basic BBO user. I give up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted February 3, 2009 Report Share Posted February 3, 2009 If you're not familiar with the details of HTML, you should probably use a web page editor that takes care of these for you. It should have menus or dialogs that allow you to create frames, where you can provide the URL pointing to handviewer as the contents of one of the panels. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G_R__E_G Posted February 3, 2009 Report Share Posted February 3, 2009 Fred/Any other brilliant people, Any suggestions as to how best to start to show one line of play and then back up a few tricks and show an alternate line of play? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fred Posted February 3, 2009 Report Share Posted February 3, 2009 Fred/Any other brilliant people, Any suggestions as to how best to start to show one line of play and then back up a few tricks and show an alternate line of play? Thanks.There is no good way to do this (yet). I will get around to implement things like this, but I might have to take a break from Handviewer development soon and start to focus on my "real work" again :) The only suggestion I can think of (not an especially good one) is to include a link, either in your own html or as html within an annotation, to load another copy of the Handviewer with different parameters. Fred GitelmanBridge Base Inc.www.bridgebase.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotShot Posted February 3, 2009 Report Share Posted February 3, 2009 Is it possible to set incomplete hands, like one would have at trick 6 and have cards played to a trick?In that case one could use an external javascript to switch back and forth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fred Posted February 3, 2009 Report Share Posted February 3, 2009 It is possible to set up incomplete hands and play out the cards, but I think you will need an auction so that the program knows who is on lead and what trump is. This is not ideal. I will add better support for incomplete hands to my list of things to do. Fred GitelmanBridge Base Inc.www.bridgebase.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G_R__E_G Posted February 3, 2009 Report Share Posted February 3, 2009 There is no good way to do this (yet). I will get around to implement things like this, but I might have to take a break from Handviewer development soon and start to focus on my "real work" again. Considering how long it took to add the functionality for annotating we'll expect this in two to three days. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xx1943 Posted February 5, 2009 Report Share Posted February 5, 2009 Hi Fred and all, The handviewer seems ideal for blogging and any web-oriented communication.I experimented a bit and found it very suitable for some purposes:Link to my blog "Al's bridgesite" I found it a problem to show the play of cards in an incomplete hand. I solved to make East declarer to give South the lead. But that is not really satisfying. Is there another way to set "who is on play" in an incomplete deal? I like the handviewer very much for posting in a blog or on my website, but I won't miss lin-files for offline teaching lessons. I like to comment bidding and play using the nt|| at||and sb|| tags.I hope BBO will provide the users with the NetBridgeVu.exe furthermore. Many thanks to Fred for providing us with all these great toys and tools. Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A2003 Posted February 9, 2009 Report Share Posted February 9, 2009 cancelled. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G_R__E_G Posted February 10, 2009 Report Share Posted February 10, 2009 I started whipping together a tool this morning that will help with building deals from scratch. Everything is done except for the play of the hand and annotations for both the bidding and play. It's in Excel, so it won't work if you don't have that program (there's macros). Anyway, it's a work in progress but I thought some might be interested in having a look. Here's a link: Hand Creator Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xx1943 Posted February 10, 2009 Report Share Posted February 10, 2009 I started whipping together a tool this morning that will help with building deals from scratch. Everything is done except for the play of the hand and annotations for both the bidding and play. It's in Excel, so it won't work if you don't have that program (there's macros). Anyway, it's a work in progress but I thought some might be interested in having a look. Here's a link: Hand Creator Hi Greg, great job, many thanks. This will be of great help. Looking forwrd to try the coming releases. Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fred Posted February 11, 2009 Report Share Posted February 11, 2009 I started whipping together a tool this morning that will help with building deals from scratch. Everything is done except for the play of the hand and annotations for both the bidding and play. It's in Excel, so it won't work if you don't have that program (there's macros). Anyway, it's a work in progress but I thought some might be interested in having a look. Here's a link: Hand CreatorNice work Greg! I was thinking that eventually I would have to make an authoring program that would export an appropriate Handviewer URL, but now maybe I won't have to do that :D Thanks also to Art for helping to spread the word about Handviewer. Handviewer development rates to be more or less on hold for the next couple of weeks as I am working hard on the implementation of Partnership Bidding (and hosting Teaching Tables) for the BBO web-client. For those of you who are curious, the development effort is going well but it is still too early to predict a release date. It looks like the web-client implementation of these things will be clearly superior to that which is available in the Windows client. Fred GitelmanBridge Base Inc.www.bridgebase.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickf Posted February 11, 2009 Report Share Posted February 11, 2009 Can any bloggers out there report any success/ failures inserting hands via iframes using: - WordPress- Blogger I'm struggling with WP, but there are known iframe/ WPress issues (although there are work-arounds I read). thanks. nickfsydney Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orlam Posted February 11, 2009 Report Share Posted February 11, 2009 So now someone needs to code a template for BBF integrating Handviewer? :)) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerardo Posted February 11, 2009 Report Share Posted February 11, 2009 Working on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulg Posted February 11, 2009 Report Share Posted February 11, 2009 Can any bloggers out there report any success/ failures inserting hands via iframes using: - WordPress- Blogger I'm struggling with WP, but there are known iframe/ WPress issues (although there are work-arounds I read). thanks. nickfsydneyWorks fine on blogger, you can see some examples in my posts this month. Note that one friend has said that he cannot use it from work as the bridgebase.com domain is blocked by the corporate firewall. p Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G_R__E_G Posted February 11, 2009 Report Share Posted February 11, 2009 I've done a quick update to my hand creator. There's now the facility to play the cards. I'm not really happy with it but it was the best I could do in 20 minutes (damn day job!!!). Same link as before: Hand Creator Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TylerE Posted February 11, 2009 Report Share Posted February 11, 2009 Any hope of giving a URL parameter that will generate T instead of 10 (Yes, this drives me nuts). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G_R__E_G Posted February 11, 2009 Report Share Posted February 11, 2009 One more update - claiming is now possible and you can annotate bids. Hand Creator Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jillybean Posted February 11, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2009 Ive just saved some lin files from myhands and uploaded them to a teaching table.Ive found the orientation is wrong, North is dealer each time when it should have been E,W,S Not sure if this is a myhands problem or user error. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickf Posted February 12, 2009 Report Share Posted February 12, 2009 Greg, annotations require a curly bracket. But apart from that - love it. nickfsydney Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G_R__E_G Posted February 12, 2009 Report Share Posted February 12, 2009 Greg, annotations require a curly bracket. But apart from that - love it. nickfsydneyI have it adding regular brackets and it's working for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G_R__E_G Posted February 12, 2009 Report Share Posted February 12, 2009 Greg, annotations require a curly bracket. But apart from that - love it. nickfsydneyOkay - I get it now. The regular brackets do the bid explanations which are working. I guess I need to find a good way to do both the explanations and the annotations. I'll figure it out eventually. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G_R__E_G Posted February 12, 2009 Report Share Posted February 12, 2009 One more update - claiming is now possible and you can annotate bids. Hand CreatorNew version - you can now annotate the play. You can enter bid explanations but not annotations. The play annotations will add the {} for you, similarly the bid explanations add the () for you. If you wish to append to your previous annotation just start your comment with a + and it will do that. A quick tip with that - always follow your + with a couple of spaces so that the spacing is correct. Next step will be to allow annotations in the bidding and then I'll work on cleaning up the rough edges. Link is same as above. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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