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<<Concerning the addtionnal features, i want to be clear: PTS is not and will never be a software that can monitor and scan all the tables of the lobby while you are playing. There is a simple reason for that : for example, in PartyPoker, for the player list to be displayed AND updated in the lobby, the table has to be selected in the table window, and the poker lobby window has to be active. So you cannot play and scan at the same time, because the poker lobby window would come in the foreground every 2 seconds...>>


Were the data gathering from the Party lobby performed in a different user desktop than the one where the data is displayed this would not be a problem.

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True.
In fact i tried yesterday to launch the PTS automatic scan while i was playing 2 tables, and if you minimize both PTS and the Party Lobby, it's ok, because the party lobby window doesn't come up every 2 seconds. PTS needs to activate it, so it is activated, but it stays minimized, so it doesn't bother you while you are playing...
mmm, maybe i could work something out to be able to launch a kind of "background - low priority - automatic scan" that could try to keep the stats of the tables updated...

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Alternatively collect all the info from the Party lobby screen first and only then go about the slow(er) business of database querying filling in the results as they are available.