[inquiry]

Some time ago there was a request that we could copy the text of a chat to the clipboard. I wuold like to have the ability to copy a pair of names registered for a tournament to the clipboard and to copy the name of people on the partnership desk to the clipboared.

There are a lot of reasons someone might like to do this, but I want to automate the process of canceling a tournament and notifying the players by chat of the cancellation. Also, HomeBase has a webpage for eac player, so I would like the opportunity to automate sendnig them a link to their webpage which requires that I can grab their name. The easiest place is from the registation desk.

So this wuld be sweet.... (I have automated taking a pair of names separated by a hypen and getting the two names)...

ben

[bid_em_up]

ummm, ok.

Although it would probably be smarter to give an option automatically notifying all players registered for a tourny (paired or not) that a tourny has been cancelled and provide a reason for it when you actually cancel it.

Cancel Tourny? = Y
Notify Players? = Y
Reason for cancellation="No director avaialble", "Director is not feeling well", "Not enough players registered", etc.

Then when you press enter to actually cancel, just do broadcast message:

Tourney #abcd has been cancelled by "inquiry" because "whatever reason was entered".

No?

Not that there may not be other reasons for doing as you suggest, but for tournament cancellation, I would think that this would probably be the best way.

[inquiry]

bid_em_up, on Oct 13 2006, 03:05 PM, said:

ummm, ok.

Although it would probably be smarter to give an option automatically notify all players registered for a tourny (paired or not) that a tourny has been cancelled and provide a reason for it when you actually cancel it.

Cancel Tourny? = Y
Notify Players? = Y
Reason for cancellation="No director avaialble", "Director is not feeling well", "Not enough players registered", etc.

Then when you press enter to actually cancel, just do broadcast message:

Tourney #abcd has been cancelled by "inquiry" because "whatever reason was entered".

No?

Well the system could of course send a generic the tourney has been cancelled, and for my tourneys, I have the club mechanism to annoucne it was cancelled ad msot, but not all players who register are club members, so that will inform all at the risk of upsetting those with a club annoucnement they are not interested in since they didn't register.

The advantage is I have wrtiten okscripts that automate creation of tournaments (different buttons for imps and MP both at pairs and individual). It ask for director, I have a pick list with ours, and time, after that, it does everything else from opening the create tourney wndow to closing it, that includes a variety of text for the description.

I also have a thanks for playing script. Ideally I would liike a general thanks to the players, then one that will send to each plahyer a private thanks and a custom link to their homebase webpage that includes the current tourney they just finished.So I need to load each player name into a variable and use it twice. Once fo the chat window (macro types the name into the chat to box), and again in the message (macro appends their name to our webaddress where we store their hands, so they can click on the hyperlink in the private message). Now we say something like ... you can find your hands at.. .http:\\www,.homebase.com\hands\username replace username with yours.

So we need an easy way to automate this. We could have our directors enter the names manually into something like notepad and then have the macro go get them (this is how I tested the macro, grabbing from notepad), and with small tourneys, not a big problem other than typing errors. But in large tourneys (of course we would never cancel one of t hose), having the names for the thanks and remiinder could be a big problem. The okscript is fast, and can in theory grab hundreds of names from a list in no time. Even if it didn't get them all, the director could look at the last few tables and add the missing ones I guess manually.

It would also be userful if you saw a name on the partnership desk. You could copy it and paste into myhands for instance to see how they play (should that interest you), or to send that name to another player to say, hey, 3i43hs is on the parntership desk, why don't you go sign up with him.

Maybe it is jsut me... in which case it is not worth the effort to make this change, but if it is jsut enabling control-C to work somehow and is one or two lines of code, why not?