interpreting_titletext
Most casinos show very valuable info in the titlebar, for example
Tournament 12345678 Table 5 - No Limit Hold'em - Blinds $600/$1200 Ante $75
Valuable informations in the example above (PokerStars) are:
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the game-type: tournament (and no-limit)
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the size of the blinds: $600 / $1200
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the ante: $75
Besides of valuable info the titlestring comes with some technical benefits:
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it is usually very reliable
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it can be accessed easily with the Windows API (GetWindowText) and does not require any scraping.
Therefore OpenHoldem provides a way to interpret the titletext:
In the example above
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“^*” followed by the constant string “- “ recognized and discards everything until it finds “- “ in the titlestring. This means the title-parser will skip “OpenHoldem Poker - ” because this data does not provide any useful info for us.
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Again there follows a dummy that needs to be skipped. “^* - blinds ” will ignore everything until it finds “ - blinds ”.
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Now comes the first interesting piece of data. “^s” expects a numerical value, here “5” that will be interpreted as the size of the small blind.
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“/” is a constant string that will be ignored. In our exaple it separates small-blind from big blind.
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Finally “^b” works similar like “^s”: it expects a numerical value too and interprets it as the size of the big-blind.