Interested in writing a Datamining App - advice needed

[KJ o]

The new PT version will supposedly not use Access anymore. Besides, once you have the hands in Access, it's a small matter to move the info to a real database.

Compare that to the actual amount of work needed to recreate the PT functionality, and I would think going the PT route is an obvious choice.

[OrcaDK]

The new PT version is in fact using a PostgreSQL database, and it works wonder for speed. Datamining will be a breeze.

[beatua]

I wrote a datamining script with autoit in a few hours. It works on every party affil.. autoit v3 is highly recommended for little windows apps (it even has gui support and the scripts can be compiled into a .exe).

-runstop

[RedManPlus]

Download Winspector...
And run it concurrently with the Party Client.

This will give info...
About all the List Boxes, etc.

Winspector is Here

Download AutoIt...
And run the AU3Info utility...
Concurrently with the Party client.

This will give you similar info as Winspector.

Get AutoIt Here

You can go a long way in this type of app with AutoIt...
But I'm doing a data mining app in VB...
To have complete control...
And I'm gonna try to read SysListView321 tonite.

If I get it working...
Maybe I'll send you some starter code.

I can relate to your situation exactly...
Because I once graduated with a shiny new Computer Science degree...
But getting 5000 hours of programming under your belt...
Will make all the difference.

Persevere in this... It will be worth it.

rm+

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[Eratosthenes]

If you are talking about writing an app to parse the hand history files and load the info into a database, then perl is the way to go. Perl was designed for parsing and reporting on text files--that's all you're doing here. The problem is that party hasn't published the hh file spec. So you write your parser and then run it to find those darn special cases that break it.

Perl is plenty fast enough. A single thread of perl will parse and store as many hand histories as you can generate. As far as I'm concerned, writing this in C or C++ would be sheer torture. Perl's reg exp handling makes this more fun than work.

[Surfbullet]

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Perl's reg exp handling makes this more fun than work.

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I agree with this. I'm looking to use pokertracker for the actual imports, because I'm happy with how fast it's been running queries with the advent of the new patch... I was just doing something along the lines of what rm+ and others said, basically running an automated program to open up new tables etc.

If I were doing it whe way you described I'd def go with perl.

Thanks,

Surf

[BradleyT]

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Download Winspector...
And run it concurrently with the Party Client.

This will give info...
About all the List Boxes, etc.

Winspector is Here


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Sweet. I removed visual studio 2002 (which had spy++) and am using 2005 beta which didn't come with spy++ and was looking for an alternative.

Thank you!

[YoureToast]

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Download Winspector...
And run it concurrently with the Party Client.

This will give info...
About all the List Boxes, etc.

Winspector is Here


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Sweet. I removed visual studio 2002 (which had spy++) and am using 2005 beta which didn't come with spy++ and was looking for an alternative.

Thank you!

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how does 2005 look? Im using 2003 still.

[Prod1gy]

Good luck, I wrote PartyMine and interfacing with Party's software is a pain in the butt, I have been a programmer for 10 years and had problems with alot of their stuff. They have alot of custom controls that aren't easy to figure out.

[Mig]

We heard of partypoker a while back but it has never really been released [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]. Hopefully somone will release something like that soon so we can use it !! Really nice piece of software.