Universal Poker Table Organizer (UPTO) is a program for a comfortable multi-tabling in online poker.
Let’s examine the second page of program - AutoPlace.
AutoPlace enables you to place tables for any poker rooms and modes.
When you open a new poker table, it is automatically placed on a monitor in a place which was earlier defined by you, and with a size you have determined (these data are stored in your program, hereinafter - a config). In principle, it is possible to determine the location of any Windows, such as poker clients, HoldemManager, PokerTracker. You can create different configs and easily switch between them during the game. Each config can contain one or several groups of identical windows.
Each group is defined by two parameters: the window class (all windows of the certain poker room have the same class) and the window title. To determine which windows you want to choose for a group, set:- in the field ‘Window class’ - the window class of your poker room; - in the field ‘Window title’ - the phrase which is unique for your windows (eg ‘Double’ for DoNs, ‘90 Players’ for PokerStars 90-max, a special character '*' for all the windows of the certain poker room). For more details about ‘Window Title’ see ‘How to use Advanced Window Title’.
For convenience, in the field ‘Windows type’ you can set a predefined type of windows for the most popular poker rooms. If your poker room is not listed, then use the button 'Grabber' to find out and copy the title and the class of the necessary window.
Once you have determined which windows will be in a group, you must specify the location of these windows. To do this, set the slots for the group. Usually, a slot is defined by four digits: the first two (Location) are the coordinates of the upper-left corner of the window, the second two (Size) set the size of the window. In UPTO the idea of two sets of coordinates for each slot is implemented for the first time: one set of coordinates for a normal window state (Normal Size Slot), the other one for the activated state of the window (Activate Size Slot). When the window transforms into activated state (as you move the mouse over it, or it is your turn to action), it increases in size from Normal Size to Activate Size. Setting different coordinates for slots and manipulating the check-boxes 'Auto Activate' and 'Activate Size', you can create different effects of the windows’ behavior.
How to enter the coordinates of slots? Firstly, the easiest way is set ‘Tile’ or ‘Cascade’ the windows. For example for ‘Tile’ windows: Set the one size of windows for your poker room in the field ‘Normal Size’ (or choose from drop-down list or use Grabber to specify the necessary size), set the another size in the field ‘Activate Size’. If you want that windows don’t change size when auto-activated, then set the same size in ‘Normal Size’ and ‘Activate Size’. In the 'Tile' group select the monitor number and the number of windows in a horizontal and in a vertical (eg 3x3) and click 'Create Tile Slots'. UPTO will automatically calculate the coordinates for 9 slots. Save the config (‘Save Config’) and execute it (‘Start Config’).
Another way to enter the coordinates of slots (it is used if you want to save your favorite arrangement of windows in the UPTO) – with help of Grabber go through your windows and click 'Create Normal Size Slot' and 'Create Activate Size Slot' in Grabber to copy the coordinates of windows in the slots.
Lastly, you can manually add the slots ('Add Slot'), enter the necessary coordinates and use the 'Calculate Activate Slot' button to calculate the coordinates for the Activate Size Slot.
When the number of windows you have opened is bigger than the pre-defined number of slots, all the “excess” windows will be placed in the last slot, i.e. the last slot always behaves as a stack. If you want to play stacked, then create a group with one slot.
Each group can have its own unique settings:
- Auto Place - When it is turned off, windows’ location and size are ignored (you can drag windows anywhere).
- Auto Size - When it is turned off, size of windows is ignored (it is recommended to switch it off for Ongame due to the incorrect change of window sizes);
- Mouse-Activate – brings the window under cursor to the foreground. If at the same time ‘Activate Size’ is enabled, then window takes size of Activate Size;
-Auto Activate –enables auto-activation of window(UPTO defines when it’s your turn and transforms window from Normal Size Slot to Activate Size Slot) ;
-Auto Shift - the auto-shift of windows (after closing the window the following ones shift to its position). When this option is disabled, the windows remain on their places, and new window will be located in the first empty slot;
-Auto Sort - auto-sort of tables based on the level of blinds (at the moment this function is implemented for PokerStars, Ongame, IPoker);
-Activate Size. If the setting is enabled, then, when creating Activate Size Slot, Activate Size is accepted, if not - Normal Size is accepted. If it is switched off during running config, then Activate Size Slot is ignored.
- Shared Slots – allows you to use common slots for several groups (you can play in several poker rooms at the same time, as if you play in one room);
-TOI Style – allows to use slots like in program TOI (Table of Interest);
Detailed information about new options Shared Slot and TOI Style can be found here.
Thus, program UPTO provides a tremendous opportunities to manage windows. This is the standard placement of tile, cascade, stack ,as well as various combinations of these methods. Also, more complicated configurations are available, for example: windows are tiled, and when it’s your turn, then active window popup in the center of monitor with bigger size. With TOI Style, on the contrary - all the windows are in stack first, and when it’s your turn, they are tiled.
Here are a few words about Grabber. Use it, when you need to find out the unknown window class or copy the window coordinates and sizes in slots. In Grabber’s window click the ‘Click to Select Window’ button, and then on the interested window. You can immediately copy the obtained data in your group.
After you have created config, save it - 'Save Config' and run - 'Start Config'. If you have changed any settings in the current config - then click 'Refresh Config' to let the changes take effect. To suspend the execution of Config - press 'Stop Config'. If you selected 'Auto-run Config', then, when you start UPTO, config that you used in the previous session will automatically run. If 'Minimize on Run' is selected, then when you start config, program automatically minimizes to the taskbar.
AutoPlace enables you to place tables for any poker rooms and modes.
When you open a new poker table, it is automatically placed on a monitor in a place which was earlier defined by you, and with a size you have determined (these data are stored in your program, hereinafter - a config). In principle, it is possible to determine the location of any Windows, such as poker clients, HoldemManager, PokerTracker. You can create different configs and easily switch between them during the game. Each config can contain one or several groups of identical windows.
Each group is defined by two parameters: the window class (all windows of the certain poker room have the same class) and the window title. To determine which windows you want to choose for a group, set:- in the field ‘Window class’ - the window class of your poker room; - in the field ‘Window title’ - the phrase which is unique for your windows (eg ‘Double’ for DoNs, ‘90 Players’ for PokerStars 90-max, a special character '*' for all the windows of the certain poker room). For more details about ‘Window Title’ see ‘How to use Advanced Window Title’.
For convenience, in the field ‘Windows type’ you can set a predefined type of windows for the most popular poker rooms. If your poker room is not listed, then use the button 'Grabber' to find out and copy the title and the class of the necessary window.
Once you have determined which windows will be in a group, you must specify the location of these windows. To do this, set the slots for the group. Usually, a slot is defined by four digits: the first two (Location) are the coordinates of the upper-left corner of the window, the second two (Size) set the size of the window. In UPTO the idea of two sets of coordinates for each slot is implemented for the first time: one set of coordinates for a normal window state (Normal Size Slot), the other one for the activated state of the window (Activate Size Slot). When the window transforms into activated state (as you move the mouse over it, or it is your turn to action), it increases in size from Normal Size to Activate Size. Setting different coordinates for slots and manipulating the check-boxes 'Auto Activate' and 'Activate Size', you can create different effects of the windows’ behavior.
How to enter the coordinates of slots? Firstly, the easiest way is set ‘Tile’ or ‘Cascade’ the windows. For example for ‘Tile’ windows: Set the one size of windows for your poker room in the field ‘Normal Size’ (or choose from drop-down list or use Grabber to specify the necessary size), set the another size in the field ‘Activate Size’. If you want that windows don’t change size when auto-activated, then set the same size in ‘Normal Size’ and ‘Activate Size’. In the 'Tile' group select the monitor number and the number of windows in a horizontal and in a vertical (eg 3x3) and click 'Create Tile Slots'. UPTO will automatically calculate the coordinates for 9 slots. Save the config (‘Save Config’) and execute it (‘Start Config’).
Another way to enter the coordinates of slots (it is used if you want to save your favorite arrangement of windows in the UPTO) – with help of Grabber go through your windows and click 'Create Normal Size Slot' and 'Create Activate Size Slot' in Grabber to copy the coordinates of windows in the slots.
Lastly, you can manually add the slots ('Add Slot'), enter the necessary coordinates and use the 'Calculate Activate Slot' button to calculate the coordinates for the Activate Size Slot.
When the number of windows you have opened is bigger than the pre-defined number of slots, all the “excess” windows will be placed in the last slot, i.e. the last slot always behaves as a stack. If you want to play stacked, then create a group with one slot.
Each group can have its own unique settings:
- Auto Place - When it is turned off, windows’ location and size are ignored (you can drag windows anywhere).
- Auto Size - When it is turned off, size of windows is ignored (it is recommended to switch it off for Ongame due to the incorrect change of window sizes);
- Mouse-Activate – brings the window under cursor to the foreground. If at the same time ‘Activate Size’ is enabled, then window takes size of Activate Size;
-Auto Activate –enables auto-activation of window(UPTO defines when it’s your turn and transforms window from Normal Size Slot to Activate Size Slot) ;
-Auto Shift - the auto-shift of windows (after closing the window the following ones shift to its position). When this option is disabled, the windows remain on their places, and new window will be located in the first empty slot;
-Auto Sort - auto-sort of tables based on the level of blinds (at the moment this function is implemented for PokerStars, Ongame, IPoker);
-Activate Size. If the setting is enabled, then, when creating Activate Size Slot, Activate Size is accepted, if not - Normal Size is accepted. If it is switched off during running config, then Activate Size Slot is ignored.
- Shared Slots – allows you to use common slots for several groups (you can play in several poker rooms at the same time, as if you play in one room);
-TOI Style – allows to use slots like in program TOI (Table of Interest);
Detailed information about new options Shared Slot and TOI Style can be found here.
Thus, program UPTO provides a tremendous opportunities to manage windows. This is the standard placement of tile, cascade, stack ,as well as various combinations of these methods. Also, more complicated configurations are available, for example: windows are tiled, and when it’s your turn, then active window popup in the center of monitor with bigger size. With TOI Style, on the contrary - all the windows are in stack first, and when it’s your turn, they are tiled.
Here are a few words about Grabber. Use it, when you need to find out the unknown window class or copy the window coordinates and sizes in slots. In Grabber’s window click the ‘Click to Select Window’ button, and then on the interested window. You can immediately copy the obtained data in your group.
After you have created config, save it - 'Save Config' and run - 'Start Config'. If you have changed any settings in the current config - then click 'Refresh Config' to let the changes take effect. To suspend the execution of Config - press 'Stop Config'. If you selected 'Auto-run Config', then, when you start UPTO, config that you used in the previous session will automatically run. If 'Minimize on Run' is selected, then when you start config, program automatically minimizes to the taskbar.