Software to Read the Party Poker Board

MolonLabe · #1 09-23-2005, 08:27 AM

Isn't the hand history file only for games that I am playing in? I want to data mine from many different tables.

Zapp · #2 09-23-2005, 08:34 AM

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Isn't the hand history file only for games that I am playing in? I want to data mine from many different tables.

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.HHF files are written for all observed games. Games you play in are in a directory with the same name as your screen name with .TXT extentions. Observed games are in the program directory with .HHF extentions.

MolonLabe · #3 09-23-2005, 08:56 AM

Dam... you just made my job simpler by about a million times. Bless you. Bless you. Bless you.

One question though. Do you have any idea why Poker Office keeps my text window open in party and won't allow me to go "totally silent"? That's why I figured reading the text window was the way to go.

Thanks a million again.

Zapp · #4 09-23-2005, 08:58 AM

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Do you have any idea why Poker Office keeps my text window open in party and won't allow me to go "totally silent"?

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No.

swarthybear · #5 02-17-2006, 01:41 AM

I don't know how you program. I fell asleep in C++ class. But God bless you. You will seriously cash in if you learn how to extract hand info from the text box in party poker, and filter it to a database.

MolonLabe · #6 02-16-2006, 04:36 PM

Reading the .HHF worked fantastically well for the last 4 months but unfortunately Party Poker discontinued this nice little feature. So I ask again.

What is the technique used to read the game action live (that some of the software out there uses?) What is the software and programming code and is any of it out there as freeware?

Thanks for the help

Terry · #7 02-17-2006, 01:38 AM

You're looking for AutoHotkey to do screen scraping. Look at it's PixelGetColor, PixelSearch, and ImageSearch functions used in conjunction with WindowSpy. You won't be able to get mucked hands in observed games, only the cards that get exposed.

There have been several posts in this forum in the past couple weeks with some great AHK scripts to use the keyboard as a mouse and some other really cool stuff. Looking over those scripts will give you a big head start toward working with Party windows and controls.

Please post your bot script or PM me a copy when it's done. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]