Looking for some ideas, perhaps a programmer

[emm]

I'm trying to make a program for myself that can handle some of the simple math in certain poker situations, displaying some figures on the screen for me, percentages, odds, etc.

To start, I need the program to know what cards I have and what cards are on the board. Then the program does the math and makes the output (for instance, I have AhKh, the board is xh xh xd...program then tells me that I have xx.x% chance to hit the flush on turn)

If that makes sense to you, and you have a clue about programming, could you please answer the following questions:

Should this program screen scrape to recognize the cards, or dig into the incoming stream of data, wherever that is, to pick up the known cards?

What programming language do you think is most appropriate for functions like this?

[BillsChips]

I wrote something along those lines to be used with AP. Unfortunately, you can't get the info you need from the history until after the next hand begins. The odds calculator part of my program displays a small window. You type in the number of outs you have and it displays the minimum pot size required to call both big and small bets. This is easy to do and can be done with any programming language. I used Visual Basic. My program also functions as a heads-up display, showing VPIP/PF Raise %/ Total Aggression/ and number of hands played. It recalculates after each hand and displays the final board and all calling hands. It also can guide your preflop action based on the suggestions in SSHE. (No this is not for sale)

None of this is rocket science and you should be able to do it with any language. Screen-scraping is a horse of another color.

Bill

[freecard4all]

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What programming language do you think is most appropriate for functions like this?

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frankly forget that you will start today with Hello World and finish next week with reading cards.
Reading cards directly is a hard job that have to be done for every site. Then they change something and you are done.

Maybe the screen scraping seems to be much easier way (no overlapping tables of course).
In case you find something pre-made I'm also interested. These additional calculations would sometimes help a lot!.