A few new developments
Rejoice--things are getting easier all the time
Hi, bridge pals.
I have some new deal generator features to share with you. I keep writing that I’m going to de-emphasize development of the generator, and focus on publishing deal recipes. I really, really am going to do that, but as you know, when I find my own tool difficult or even just inconvenient to use, I must do something about it.
The first new feature was not caused by a deficiency of the generator. What happened was I played in only my second tournament. After the session, I went to the ACBL results page, expecting to find a link that would let me download the boards in a PBN file that I could then load into my generator for fun and frolic (aka train wreck analysis—it was not a good session for team Chris). But, unlike my weekly club sessions, the tournament sessions didn’t offer a PBN file! You’re probably all shaking your heads in pity because you probably already know about this problem, as well as the solution. But just in case you don’t know, here’s a tutorial on ways to get deals into a file if a file is not already provided.
Say, have you ever found yourself with a pile of recipe fragments and wished that you could easily merge them into one fresh, new recipe? And then mix and match those same fragments, plus others, into completely different (yet also fresh and new) recipes?Well now you can! See the tutorial on the Merge Recipe button of the Deal Recipe panel.
I hear you saying, “That’s all well and good for combining recipes from multiple recipe files, Chris Jones, but what if I am mid-recipe and I realize that I’m manually keying the same settings over and over in a multiple-shaper-tab recipe? And I don’t have a suitable fragment in another file but I just want to reuse settings from another tab within this very recipe over which I am slaving? When will this agony end?” It. Ends. Now. Check out this tutorial on the new Copy and Merge buttons high atop (and leftward) on each shaper tab.
Happy dealing!