PartyPlanner Beta is available for download

Mogobu The Fool · #1 01-14-2006, 04:59 PM

Using this tool, you can configure how poker tables will be automatically laid out on your computer's desktop. This handy table-management tool for Party Poker and skins is free and will remain free.

Party Planner does two basic things:

1. Position and re-size your poker tables based on a layout you choose.

2. Give you handy controls to automatically show/hide tables and lobbies.

Party Planner is especially useful for those who open many tables at once.

You can check out PartyPlanner at the Overcards.com Poker Wiki.

OC Vega · #2 01-14-2006, 05:25 PM

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Using this tool, you can configure how poker tables will be automatically laid out on your computer's desktop. This handy table-management tool for Party Poker and skins is free and will remain free.

Party Planner does two basic things:

1. Position and re-size your poker tables based on a layout you choose.

2. Give you handy controls to automatically show/hide tables and lobbies.

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It does a bit more than that - it also has these cool features:

3. Controls Party's Lobby to stay locked up or minimized if you want to keep it from slipping on and off of the screen.

4. Opens tables to the positions and sizes you design in the order that you specify.

5. Detects 'holes' in your layout that come from when you leave a table - and automatically fills those gaps with any subsequent tables that you open afterwards.

6. Allows you to swap 2 tables' positions with one another just by dragging one on top of the other - resulting in pixel perfect shifting and automatic resizing of each table if the tables were of differing sizes!!

7. Saves / Loads multiple configuration layouts.

8. Doesn't look like ass!

9. Free, free, free.

The app is still in beta, so we're interested in bug reports / feedback too. If you've any ideas to throw at us, we've got our forums up and running to listen:
Overcards.com PartyPlanner forum

-vega

send_the_msg · #3 01-14-2006, 05:31 PM

just downloaded it, looks awesome, few Q's:
how do i minimize the options bar?
how does the keep main lobby open/keep main lobby closed feature work? i tried that up/down arrow button but it didn't seem to do anything...

Mogobu The Fool · #4 01-14-2006, 05:33 PM

To minimize, right-click. Bring it back from the tool tray.

On the Lobby -- depending on which arrow is yellow, it should keep the lobby up or keep the lobby down. If you're in "lobby down" mode, it will stay down, even if you close a table (which otherwise causes the lobby to pop up.) If you're in "lobby up mode," it will keep the lobby up, even if you open a new table (which normally causes the lobby to shrink.)

Mogobu The Fool · #5 01-14-2006, 05:34 PM

Oh, and if neither arrow is yellow, it lets your lobby run naturally.

send_the_msg · #6 01-14-2006, 05:34 PM

figured out the answer to my second Q, but found a bug in the process. when you set the lobby to be always down, and then try and summon it from the start bar, it goes into this weird panic trying to keep the window down while windows wants to bring it up.

Mogobu The Fool · #7 01-14-2006, 05:39 PM

I'm not sure what you mean. When you summon it from the task bar, it pops up, and PartyPlanner knocks it right back down. This is normal. If you want to see the lobby, just use PartyPlanner's up arrow, instead.

Unles. . . do you have another application open trying to control the lobby? The two applications would fight for control.

send_the_msg · #8 01-14-2006, 05:55 PM

i don't have any other apps running. what happens is it pops up, then your app forces it back down, but then it looks like it pops up again, and then is forced back down, and in all this time the cursor is all choppy. could just be my comp...

Mogobu The Fool · #9 01-14-2006, 06:02 PM

We can't replicate your problem yet. . . if you click the up arrow, then the down, does it work normally? What I mean is, does the erratic behavior only get triggered by clicking on the lobby in the task bar, or does it just always seem to work that way on your machine?

Also, could we move this discussion over to the Bug Reports Forum? I want a record of the disucssion there, and I don't want to keep bumping other threads here.

Tyrannosaurus · #10 01-14-2006, 08:43 PM

i have dual 2001fps, and when i try to rapidly open sngs from the lobby, party usually opens one in the top left, then the rest offscreen. this program almost remedies the problem, its just when i open a bunch of tables really quickly, it doesn't slot them in the appropriate order that i designated. any thoughts?