exporting a bridge movie from BBO

[Braden]

June 29

Help please. I try daily to analyze hands from BBO, either ones we have played or ones from Vugraph. I would like to "export" the bridge movie from BBO [to an e-mail or an MS Word file] so I can share my thoughts with my partner without recopying the hand. Gavin [Wolpert] does this effortlessly from BBO to his new Web Site. But I do not know how it is done. I have tried with both the "old" and the "new" versions of BBO, but I am doing something wrong or something not right. Can anyone help me? I asked the BBO Support people but they sent me here.

Many thanks

Bob Bambrick [braden]

[inquiry]

Here are three easy way. There are others....

 

The first is the easiest. If you have the windows program (netbridgevu.exe) that is used to play online. Simply open the lin file you have and from the vugraph display (showing up to first 16 boards) click the printer icon in hte lower right hand corner of the screen (don't go to the hands, do this from the vugraph screen when you open the file). It will create a text file (best viewed with courier font or any equal space per letter font) named MATCH.TXT. You find this file in the c:/bridge base online/ directory and it contains all the bidding and play of all hands in the lin file. If you don't have netbridgevu.exe, you can get a copy from the following link. http://online.bridgebase.com/intro/install...ide_for_bbo.php

 

A second way is to use a program written by bbo yellow "cascade" (Wayne Burrows). This program is callned lincoverter and can be downloaded from this site... http://www.ebridgenz.com/download.html. There is some added benefit of this program, as it can help you post hands on this forum and it is heavily used by forum regulars (I think).

 

The third is a conversion program written by bridge expert "Richard Pavlicek". You and read about it here, http://www.rpbridge.net/t/bfc.txt and downlooad it from Mr. Pavlicek's webage. To use this one requires a little bit of computer knowledge as it is a dos program and uses "switches" etc. It is very nice if you feel comfortable with DOS type commands.

 

There are other ways too, but one of those should help you.

[Braden]

Thank you VERY much for trying. I have worked for the past four hours since your welcome message but I have gotten nowhere. I guess I am just a hopeless non-techie who had better stick to manual transcription of hands to e-mails, etc. I assume I have “netbridgevu.exe” since I have downloaded BBO and I play daily. But, I am sorry, stupid me, I do not know what “simply open the lin file you have and from the vugraph display click the printer icon in the lower right hand of the screen “ means. [if I click the print icon, it wants to print]. What I do daily is from the BBO menu, click “useful links and information”, select “review hands played”, input “1 day and my name braden” and “get hands” and a list comes up.” I click on the lin for each hand and save it to a directory I have in “my documents” for that date. Then I print those hands and analyze them. Interesting ones I transcribe for partner or friends. I was just hoping there was some easy [that I could follow] route to perhaps click, cut and paste a movie to a word program or an e-mail. As I say, I greatly appreciate your prompt attempt to help. But I guess I’m beyond the “help” stage.

[bb79]

see this tutorial : http://www.bridgebase.com/tools/hvdoc.html

There is a section : "Embedding the Handviewer program in a web page". Basically you need a link for the deal. After you find the link, use that in iframe tag.

 

You need to use the web (flash) version to get the links. (www.bridgebase.com)

 

if you're kibitzing/playing in a table, there is a result section on the right part of the screen. Click the deal you want to publish. In the bottom right, click "options -> export deal -> handviewer link". It will give you a tinyurl.com link. Paste that address in a browser and hit enter, your link will be expanded in the address bar. that's the link you want to use it in Iframe.

 

if you want to create a new hand, click "my bbo" in the top menu, choose "Hands and results", then "hand editor". After you deal, click "export deal -> handviewer link".

 

I hope this helps, let us know if you need more help.

[Braden]

Thank you so much for not giving up on me, lol. I will try that solution and report back. You folks are the greatest