HH Converter test thread...

[de-coder]

The converter only supports pokerstars and full tilt right now.

[Talking Poker]

One thing I just noticed.... this may be kind of a pain in the ass, but you're clever enough to come up with a good way to fix the issue:

Right now, the outputted HH only looks pretty when posted here, in this forum (because of how you are using the shortcuts to point to the suit images). It would be nice if people could use the converter to post hands at other forums too - this could indirectly get new posters here, which would be really nice. To do this, I think you'd have to link to the actual image locations instead of the shortcuts to them, I think.

Thoughts?

[PShabi]

[Talking Poker]

I've been back and forth with this myself. Maybe we should post a poll and see what people think. I'm kind of leaning your way though, as it's easy enough to add two or three numbers if you do need to determine the pot at any given moment in the hand.

[Talking Poker]

OK, I've thought about this some more - let's go with pshabi's suggestion of only including the pot size at the beginning of each street (Before Preflop, Flop, Turn, and River) and see how that looks.

[de-coder]

Here's a sample of what it would be like without the running pot tally.

PokerStars Tournament game, buy-in $4.00+0.40, Level IV $50/$100 No Limit, 8 players
Hand History Converted by

SB: T$1925
BB: T$5680
MP2: T$2355
MP3: T$3720
CO: T$5850
Button: T$2705
UTG: T$6340
HERO (MP1): T$3710

SB posts Small Blind T$50
BB posts Big Blind T$100

Pre-flop: 7 5 (T$150)
UTG folds
HERO folds
MP2 calls T$100
MP3 folds
CO folds
Button raises to T$200
SB folds
BB calls T$100
MP2 calls T$100

Flop: K 2 5 ($650)
BB checks
MP2 bets T$100
Button calls T$100
BB folds

Turn: K 2 5 J (T$850)
MP2 bets T$100
Button calls T$100

River: K 2 5 J 6 (T$1050)
MP2 checks
Button checks

MP2 shows 9 2
Button shows K 7
Button wins T$1050 with a pair of Kings

[Robbie Robb]

I have to agree with Shabi on this one - it looks MUCH cleaner without the running total.

You've done an awesome job here De-coder!

[de-coder]

I use the short form of the image that the editor uses. I don't actually build a link to image itself. This site uses : d : for diamonds (without the spaces), c for clubs and so on. Other sites do similar things - I notice that 2+2 uses the full word.

On this site use of direct html code within a post is prohibited so I can't link to the images directly even if I wanted to. That's a pretty common standard, so building a single conversion file that would work on multiple sites might not be possible.

What I've seen from other conversion tools is the ability to create a conversion for different forums, but I'm not sure I'm interested in the amount of work involved in all that. Each forum has it's own way of changing colours, making things bold, linking to images, etc.

What I could do is to make the converter more extensible so you could add sites by modifying the xslt and saving it under a different name (a different xslt file per forum). A list of check boxes could be generated, from the list of xslt files, and then the user could choose which forums to convert for. It should be possible to convert for multiple forums at once. Someone else would have to agree to take on the management of the xslt (I don't actually participate in other forums) - further any changes to the converted format would have to be duplicated for each forum, so it wouldn't be something you'd want to do until all the kinks are worked out of the format.

I think that's the best I'd be able to do for you.

[Talking Poker]

I think I understand. Hmmmm.... What if we had two options:
1. Convert to post on Talking Poker
2. Convert to post elsewhere.

Option 1 is what we have now. Option 2 would simple change the ": c" tags (which I defined, FYI) to an image tag pointing to the full URL of the image, which is

This might not work EVERYWHERE (like here), but I'm guessing it would work most places. I'm not really sure though.

Alternatively, and a much easier solution, would be to do exactly what I just described but instead of pointing to the image file, just do it the text way, ie: As, 2c, 3h, 4d. That should definitely work.

[de-coder]

Most forums don't allow html tags or linking to images within posts - the second way would work for sure, but not be as pretty.

[Talking Poker]

Yeah, but it's better than nothing and should be VERY east to do, right?

[bunny]

Was a PokerStars SNG.

[de-coder]

The first line of the file should start with PokerStars Game otherwise the converter can't tell what kind of file it is. Send it to me if it doesn't work and I'll have a look.