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Dealer4 PC Software User Manual ver: 1.3

1. ACET RES Nu ug 51 9 Maintenance command ansa assess enna 52 242 Information SECEOM esos QU I NS asirasi enc NO aaa NEARER 52 9 72 e Inl 53 93 Recognize M 55 9 4 Parameters sections usi namo UD NS SS 57 9 5 Downloading New Firmware 58 9 6 7 Create Service ES cap Pneu ae 58 9 7 60 9 4 5 ENAN H 61 99 Board Switch functions qudm densi et pue ERN I NONE e Fed RR ra i Mea a Re ER UR 64 10 Setup Preferences visssisseicessssiccsessoiisasassivensseesienssvsvdsensveusiecasvunsccesienadsevsves 67 11 Command ce n 68 12 Display CONTON b 69 12 1 inci aono d nasa Lea cati bi 70 12 2 gt Update Displays Firmware cousin ai Ge dea oi C Kia gb BEN ERR KR Ue TERR 72 12 3 Real Bine apu eO RI EROR RR CURAR QE 73 Appendix A File Formate 75
2. Service File C Dealer4_Data Service_file 5000 2013 217 137 txt y will be created If there is a problem with card recognition please put the problem card into the feeder now Please click OK to start i Cancel Click The machine will perform some tests motors will be started card picture captured and recognized Progress of the creation can be observed i This process can be interrupted by click on the Cancel button After the process is finished the following message will appear Service CADealerd Data Service file 5000 2013 2 7 136 b t has been created sucessfully Please attach it to the email and send to service dealer4 com Created files should be attached to an email and sent to service dealer4 com or to the Service Centre for analysis In most cases analyzing the Service File can identify the problem and it can often be solved without sending the machine to the service centre 59 9 7 Test Deal is another test function to find and solve possible problems with the machine It especially targets Duplicate Card Errors which are difficult to find by other methods The Test Deal works by repeatedly dealing a flushed deck so machine knows which card is expected every time until an error occurs The Service file will then be created with pictures of the card and other information allowing a technician to find
3. format Update Dealer4 time automatically The Display Control screen has three major sections Manage files in the Dealer4 Internal Memory Update Dealer4 Display Firmware Dealer4 Real Time Clock RTC setup 12 1 File Manage The Dealer4 is equipped with 30MB of Internal Memory This memory is designed as temporary storage of dealing files 70 The File Manage section of the Display Control Screen includes functions which allow the user to copy transfer files from a PC to the Internal Dealer4 Memory copy transfer from the Dealer4 Memory to a PC and delete files in Dealer4 internal memory It also displays a full list of existing files To copy a file from a PC to the Dealer4 follow these steps 1 Click on the Copy file to Dealer4 button A standard windows dialog box will appear 2 Select the desired file to change file type select it on the bottom left corner and click Open 3 The file will be transferred to the Dealer4 internal memory Copying progress is shown on the screen To cancel the copy click on the Copy Cancel button Due to hardware limitations copying speed is around 10kB s but this is not much of a problem as most bridge files are small 2kB 50kB It is possible to copy any file but there is no point in copying non bridge files other then PBN DUP BRI as only these files can be used by the Dealer4 machine It is possible to copy only one file at a time B
4. Auto Setup is performed separately for every Card Index setting so the first step is to set Card Index depending on which card which will be used Next put the 10 of spades in the feeder The card should be put in the following specific position the rear edge of the card should touch the Sliding Panel and left edge should be in line with the Stop Panel See below picture for details It is especially important to not push the card under the stop panel and inside the machine When the card is correctly allocated click on Auto Setup You are entering Auto Setup function for Standard Card Index Please put the 10 of Spades into the feeder Click OK to begin Click OK to start Auto Setup process During this process machine will try different parameters to find the best settings When it is finished the following message will be displayed E a E LIBE LE ERG EL GR ELI T I Position X 127 Position Y 97 Start X 66 Start Y 60 Cancel New values of the Frame Position and Start Point are displayed Also the captured card with the new parameters is shown in the Picture Window for visual inspection A prompt to accept these changes will Auto Setup completed successfully Do you want to update parameters Click on Yes will save new parameters into the machine and finish the Auto Setup process During the Auto Setup process the following message may appear Auto Setup failed
5. RR 75 PRD ADIGE pir 76 A A 76 DOM m 77 PBN ib OU MM ge 78 DEAE305 ALL MR Ex OU Ora Exe i Y EDI 79 AT CSV e aR 79 Appendix Dealing 80 B1 Gate EITOIS 80 B2 Card Jan Errors osos Da n Dr ERE TR Ur FRA UR UR OR EAR ER FIRE ERR Ns 80 B3 Card Recognition REED EI MD 81 Card Feeding zum hi OUO REL MIO NUR ELE SHE 82 B5 Other or De E qu CURE o RE a UE E V OR 82 Version information Ver 0 1 Initial draft issued 09 05 2008 Ver 1 0 issued 17 02 2013 update manual to software version 4 50 add Edit Maintenance Setup In Line commands File formats Dealing Errors chapters Ver 1 1 issued 25 05 2014 update manual to software version 4 60 rewrite Print section update Maintenance and Setup Preferences Ver1 2 issued 02 06 2014 correction in chapter numbering to be consistent with version 1 0 Ver 1 3 issued 12 10 2014 update manual to software version 4
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7. To delete a file from Dealer4 Internal Memory follow these steps 1 Select a file to delete on the file list window 2 Clickon the File Delete button then confirm on the pop up window Dealer4 Internal Memory is similar to Flash Drives but it should not be used as storage for important files Always keep another copy in a different place 12 2 Update Displays Firmware The Display Firmware is the software which controls the Front Display functionality The new version of this software is released from time to time and can be downloaded form the web and updated to the machine It is important to keep the firmware up to date as new versions provide new features functionality and eliminate bugs Display Firmware file has ADD extension and a file name like Dealer4 display firmware 2v10 add where 2v10 indicate version number 2 10 The newest version of the firmware can be downloaded from our websites www dealer4 com or www playbridgedealer4 com Firmware file type ADD is automatically registered in Windows during PC software installation so clicking on it will open the Deaelr4 software and automatically download the new version into the machine assuming that machine is connected to the computer The other method of updating firmware is to download it from the web click on the Update Display Firmware button select the firmware file from the PC and click Open During downloading a progress bar will be displayed and confirmation w
8. shows the number of the first and last boards in the current set and the number of total and completed boards Version information shows current software version and the software vendor Statistic Show Hide button used to show or hide Board Set statistics on the screen By default all statistics are hidden Default value can be changed in Setup Preferences Board Set Statistics shows information about the current Board Set s point and shapes distribution After generating or loading a Board Set the Main Menu will look like this with Statistics shown Dealer4 Main Menu File Deal Read Edit Analyze Print Maintenance Setup Event Name Generali Euro Team Championship Event Site Montecatini Event Date 1997 06 27 File Name C Dealing_hands Aulpil23 pbn Average HCP 9 41 9 78 10 84 9 97 19 19 20 81 Balanced Hands 13 18 12 11 31 Voids 1 3 1 T Singletons 10 14 12 Long suits 7 1 2 4 8 71 68 __ E ENS 920 Max frequency 47 N Completed Boards 82 _ Dealer4 ver 4 50 Ready Un C9 gt Qn Co C 4 On the Main Menu window there are three fields which can be edited Event Name Event Site and Event Date Any text can be entered into these fields This information will be saved with the Board Set when using BRE or PBN file formats Also the these fields combined can be printed on the top of
9. Vul EW 7864 A o vA WK eu A075 KT 476 01072 H 0 s Euro Team Moniecani 1997 06 77 Team Championship Montecatini 0627 Team 1997 06 27 demoli Team Championship 1997 06 27 Board Board 2 Board 3 Road 4 4m Dealer N Dealer E Dealer 783 Dealer None 0 EW 7864 Vu a 0 AKTE BAS AQTE 4063 6003 ord WA VE WA 0543 KESI Mg Ms 1562 4083 95492 AKOTORI2 AK N y aa MES Nav ea MUT 4076 5 19 i Fe N 3 yan 12 nm B 02 1 D amp 4 4 12 44 1 E 354 7 E3 OW 4 W 44 Wi 354 W3 54 m ij NS EW MS EW mah Tar Par Map Umm Sem Toni Sem Tank EW i m 8 4 Printing to the PDF file Dealer4 software does not have the ability to create hand records in PDF format The easiest way to do this is to install any PDF writer on the computer When installed the writer will appear as an additional printer To create a PDF file follow the normal printing procedure but select the PDF writer as the destination printer There are many pdf writers avai
10. 03 54 34 32 04 51 39 38 36 35 05 942 6 42 09865 0x90 4B 51 4A 38 06 41 35 33 03 4A 38 36 35 04 41 4A 8 53 865 0xa0 32 05 36 35 33 06 4B 51 4A 39 03 51 39 37 33 2 653 99 9 73 0xb0 04 4B 54 37 05 37 0 PO 4 DUP DUP format is format that is used for Duplimate machines The record length for each board is 156 bytes The first 78 bytes is the board in BRI format Next 68 bytes is the same board in DGE format So each board is recorded twice in different formats and both parts have to be the same Last 10 bytes have special meaning and are used for controlling the dealing process byte 147 indicate if boards are random Y or N byte 148 if Y dealing is backwards N for normal dealing bytes 149 151 first board number in the Board Set left alignment with space character 0x20 on unused bytes bytes 152 153 number of copies for each board left alignment with space character 0x20 on unused bytes bytes 154 156 last board number in the Board Set left alignment with space character 0x20 on unused bytes Dealer4 software does not use bytes 147 148 and 152 153 If the First and Last Board Numbers are present boards will be loaded according to them Please note that most third party software does not write bytes 147 156 and fill them with space characters 0x20 or even NULL characters 0x00 0x000 3035 3133 31 37 31 39 32 32 32 33 33 31 33 34 051317192223313
11. 51 2 6 T42 09865 KQ 0xa0 4A 38 06 41 35 33 03 4A 38 36 35 04 41 4A 32 05 J38 A53 3865 AJ2 0xb0 36 35 33 06 4B 51 4A 39 03 4B 51 39 37 33 04 4B 653 009 0973 0 0 54 37 05 37 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 7 7 0 0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0 0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0xf0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00000 BRE format uses the same hand coding as DGE but has two differences There are three ASCII lines finished with CRLF OxOA characters at the beginning of the file These lines consist of Event Site and Date information each board is separated with CRLF characters instead of NULL So the length of the record for each board is 70 bytes 0x00 46 69 6C 65 20 46 6F 72 6D 61 74 20 53 61 6D 70 File Format Samp 0x10 6C 65 73 0 OA 40 65 6C 62 OF 75 72 6E 65 0 les Melbourne 0x20 30 31 2E 30 31 2E 32 30 31 33 0D 0A 06 54 32 03 01 01 2013 12 0x30 4A 39 36 35 04 54 37 35 33 32 05 36 33 06 41 4B 965 17532 63 0x40 51 38 37 34 03 41 51 32 04 4A 38 05 41 35 06 Q874 A02 98 A5 J 0x50 36 35 03 37 34 33 04 41 4B 34 05 51 38 32 06 65 743 AK4 KQ82 0x60 39 33 03 4B 54 38 04 51 39 36 05 4A 54 39 37 34 93 8 096 019 14 0x70 OD OA 06 54 38 37 34 32 03 41 04 34 33 05 41 54 8742 43 0x80 39 34 32 06 36
12. New command New command is used to randomly generate a new Board Set or to generate an empty Board Set for Read or Edit functions Dealer4 software provide two random generators 1 Big Deal one of the best generator available It is approved by WBF and has strong mathematical background It uses a cryptographic hash RIPEMD 160 and a 320 bits seed to generate boards 160 bits of the seed is generated by the RtlGenRandom function and 160 bits come from mouse movement This provides a truly random and unrepeatable seed The Big Deal was provided by Hans von Staveren More information can be found on his website http sater home xs4all nl doc html 2 Standard Dealer4 Generator used with some modification from the beginning of the Dealer4 and provide quality of dealing which is not worse than Big Deal It uses a 128 bit Linear Feedback Shift Register and a 128 bits seed to generate boards 96 bits of the seed come from mouse movement and 32 bits from computer data current date and time Which generator will be used is up to the user The generation buttons for each generator can be disabled or enabled when button is disabled is not visible in Setup Preferences The New window looks like this First Board in Set 1 Generate Random Boards Last Board in Set 32 Leave Boards Empty Shape Reject Inner Similarity Reject History Reject Reject Odd Shapes Check Inner Similarity Check History File Shapes Rejected Inner Si
13. Please be sure that the 10 of Spades 15 in the feeder and try again 63 This means that the Auto Setup process failed and the parameters remain unchanged The reason for the error can be a card different to the 10 of spades there is no card at all in the feeder card is damaged so cannot be correctly recognized or Card Index setting is incorrectly set 9 9 Board Switch functions The Board Switch is used to decide if a plastic board is correctly inserted into the machine It also allows the machine to start dealing when a board is inserted The Board Switch is an optical switch which working based on the board interrupting the light beam This principle may create problems when the plastic used for the boards is too transparent and the light is not completely interrupted For such boards the Board Switch will not detect presence of a board even if the board is fully inserted into the machine Most plastic boards available on the market work fine with the Dealer4 but boards from some manufacturers especially from China may have this problem with certain colors typically light colors or red ones Dealer4 Board Switch uses infrared light so transparency of the board for visible light is irrelevant Important is transparency for infrared light which cannot be visually checked If such boards have to be used there are a few methods to overcome this problem and make it possible to deal using these boards 1 Put black stickers on
14. as described in Dealer4 Maintenance Adjusting and Cleaning Manual If adjusting of the feeder gap is too difficult please send the machine to a Service Centre e Card has a damaged edge a typical problem for the cards previously dealt on the Duplimate machines rotate card by 180 deg and continue dealing e Cards are stuck together reshuffle deck by hand and continue dealing B5 Other Errors Error Title Error numbers Possible action Break Dealing 57 Continue Cancel Board or Board Insert not fitted correctly 58 Continue Cancel No Top Cover 59 Continue Cancel Flip Plate open 60 Continue Cancel Break Dealing technically this is not an error it appears when the Break button is clicked during dealing but it use the same appearance as any other errors Dealing will break and it is possible to continue or cancel Board or Board Insert not fitted correctly Indicates a plastic removable board or Board Insert Dealing Platform is not fitted or is fitted incorrectly Please check presence of the board and if a board is inserted please try to push it into the machine as far as possible If the board is fitted correctly but this error still appears it can mean that there is problem with the board transparency see chapter 9 9 for more details and solutions No Top Cover Top plastic cover is removed or not fully closed close the cover and click Continue to deal again Flip Plate open Flip Plate o
15. in all for available numbers of boards per page options In these examples the same picture file is used so on the different layouts the picture looks different stretched or compressed vertically or horizontally 978 10 84 997 19 19 2081 18 12 1 31 23 1 7 4 8 14 12 18 26 4 2 3 6 752 vK3 742 K76 4 4963 974 108 K653 AQ108 108542 409 0 1084 0652 9 8 13 7 106 4102 1083 KJ753 10864 A5 AQ106 45 40843 4094 5 vA 2 Q10984 vA KJ32 AQ75 A62 983 KQ109832 476 443 KJ95 Navee 12 4J972 4876 x v62 10754 8 16 4872 1 4J54 KQ76 KQJ1074 06432 453 K 652 43 473 KQ986 9652 0284 54 J93 6 A9832 1075 107 KA 4QJ983 10764 4K874 102 1082 4198 875 862 4AJ10963 AQ932 4 42 KJ1076 497543 105 47 40193 105 098 1 A864 109432 9 78 10 84 997 19 19 20 81 12 11 31 23 1 7 4 8 14 12 18 5 4 2 3 6 752 742 76 103 4963 04 074 108 65 AQ108 485432 A108542 Q9 40 1084 0652 106 1083 10864 0109832 7097654 9 652 473 7652 54 6 1075 amp AJ107 0J983 AJ10963 4 KJ1076 J97543 47 0 93 105 098 4 864 wAJ8742 42 109 2 M d 6 105 863 0876532 AQ108 6 1053 SAKS 15 Ree 5 14 39 Ge
16. in the Picture Window The Start Point is the point from where the recognition process begins and should be located inside or near the card symbol for proper recognition Draw Frames shows frames around symbol and suit Finding these frames is first step of the recognition process 9 4 Parameters sections The Parameters section holds important values for the card recognition process and other machine settings All values in this section are stored in the machine so changing the computer does not affect these values Frame parameters defines captured picture position and recognition process Start Point Symbol parameters define minimum and maximum symbol sizes which can be recognized and threshold parameter for Bold and Fine font settings e Suit parameters define minimum and maximum suit sizes which be recognized and threshold parameter for Bold and Fine font settings e Recognize option other recognition parameters e Brightness camera brightness Only for Main Electronic Board version 11 or later Contrast camera contrast Only for Main Electronic Board version 11 or later All the above parameters are very important for proper recognition and should not be altered by users without direct request from the service centre Playing with these values can cause failures during recognition and machine will not operate properly Disable Flip Plate Switch if checked Flip Plate Switch will be disabl
17. nnn 20 4 6 Dealing 20 47 Board number checking aco ences 21 5 Read command RP 24 6 Editcommand 26 6 1 Board Set Editing iiec cinere ree nene nn uan ah ae eeu a oen ee Era eu ego Ke eg Va P SE EFE EN PVP 27 6 2 Current Board Editing iieri reor ee tnn nha nno na Yer nn RP n xg au a EN EN EE Uno ETE EE 29 A E EE 32 7 25 32 7 2 Possible errors during analysis 34 8 Print command 35 8 1 Print Hands Record to 35 8 2 Print Hands Record to the text eese eere eene nenne enne 44 83 Print Score e 46 84 Printing to The PDF file ER Quran YEN E Qr n RR D Yn n AE 51 8 5 Creating HTML file
18. picture file The picture can occupy between 1 and 8 board spaces and it s dimensions depend on the page format It should have a minimum resolution to provide nice and smooth printing The shape of the picture width to height ratio depends on paper size number of Boards per Page and picture layout If the picture has a different shape it will be stretched vertically and or horizontally to fit defined space To avoid strange looking images it is recommended that the picture follows the recommended sizes in the following tables Minimum recommended Picture resolutions Picture Boards per page Layout 10 12 15 18 20 24 1 1 1200 600 1200 x 500 800 x 600 800 x 500 600 x 600 600 x 500 2x1 2400 x 600 2400 x 500 1600 x 600 1600 x 500 1200 x 600 1200 x 500 3x1 2400 x 600 2400 x 500 1800 x 600 1800 x 500 4x1 2400 x 600 2400 x 500 1x2 600 x 1200 1200 x 1000 800 x 1200 800 x 1000 600 x 1200 600 x 1000 2x2 1200 x 1200 2400 x 1000 1600 x1200 1600 x 1000 1200x1200 1200x1000 3x2 2400 x 1200 2400x1000 1800x1200 1800 x 1000 4x2 2400 x 1200 2400 x 1000 A picture can be printed on every page of the Hands Record or on the first page only On the Page Layout Preview panel it is possible to see how final printout will appear This panel is updated when any printing settings are changed The lt gt buttons navigate thru the pages The next 6 pages are examples of printing
19. the Hand Records document In the Dealer4 software when a text window has white background it means that this windows is editable new value can be entered If text window has blue background its value is generated by the software and cannot be changed 2 2 Board Set statistics Statistics can be displayed after generating a new Board Set or loading an existing Board Set Boards Set information includes e First Board number of the first board in the set Last Board number of the last board in the set Boards in Set how many boards is in the set Last Board First Board 1 Completed Board How many boards are completed Usually all boards will be completed so this number will be equal to Boards in Set unless any boards have been edited and not completed or an empty board set has been generated The statistics are shown in two windows The right window shows hand statistics it shows the following values for each N S E W hand and a summary for NS and EW Average High Cards Points HCP calculated as 4 ace 3 king 2 queen 1 jack Balanced Hands number of hands with shapes 4 3 3 3 4 4 3 2 and 5 3 3 2 e Voids number voids each void is counted separately Singletons number of singletons each singletons is counted separately e suits 7 number of hands with 7 or longer cards suit This information can be printed with the Hand Records Refer to the description of the Print comman
20. 0 Use Board Number Reader as Board Switch Front Green LED National Card Enable Slow Deal NN 0 Cover Switch d Enable Slow Dealing Recognize option 0 Front Red LED Flip Plate Switch C ARDV C Framed Board Switch Sensitivity 200 Brightness 50 Switch on Camera LEDs fortes C 1RDV Contrast 150 Temperature 233 2 d E Calibrate Board Switch C e Supply voltage 189 o C bx Bet parameters Save parameters Draw start point There are four major function sections Information Test Recognize and Parameters Sections 9 1 Information Section Basic information about machine and firmware can be found in the information section These are Serial number Machine serial number this number should be quoted in any inquiries or correspondence Boards dealt shows how many boards the machine has dealt so far Manufacture date day when machine was manufactured Hardware ID displays the hardware version of the machine This may include mechanical features For example if the machine has a flip plate or not and electronics version Only used by support centers e Firmware version shows which version of firmware software implemented inside the machine is currently operating Download ID Only used by support centers USB ID serial number of the USB interface Only used by support centers Flash ID type of flash memory used i
21. 039484951 0xd0 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 0xe0 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 00 00 0xf0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 2 DGE DGE format also uses 128 bytes records for every board like BRI but the cards are coded differently It uses ASCII characters AKQJT98765432 for each card and suits symbols 0x06 for spade 0x03 for heart 0x04 for diamond and 0x05 for clubs The first 17 characters in the record shows N cards next 17 E next 17 S and last 17 W Each hand starts with spade symbol 0x06 then all the spades cards then the heart symbol 0x03 and hearts cards then the diamond symbol 0x04 and diamond cards and the club symbol and club cards on the end 0x00 06 54 32 03 4A 39 36 35 04 54 37 35 33 32 05 36 2 2965 7532 6 0x10 33 06 41 4B 51 38 37 34 03 41 51 32 04 4A 38 05 3 AKQ874 AQ2 J8 0x20 41 35 06 4A 36 35 03 37 34 33 04 41 4B 34 05 4B 5 065 743 4 0x30 51 38 32 06 39 33 03 4B 54 38 04 51 39 36 05 4A Q82 93 KT8 096 J 0x40 54 39 37 34 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 7974 0x50 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x60 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x70 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x80 06 54 38 37 34 32 03 41 04 34 33 05 41 54 39 34 8742 43 94 0x90 32 06 36 03 54 34 32 04 51 39 38 36 35 05
22. 4 0x010 33 36 33 38 33 39 34 38 35 31 30 31 30 32 30 33 3638394851010203 0x020 30 37 30 38 31 31 31 34 31 36 32 36 33 30 33 33 0708111416263033 0x030 34 30 34 39 30 34 30 39 31 30 32 31 32 34 32 35 4049040910212425 0x040 32 37 32 38 33 37 34 31 34 32 34 36 35 32 06 54 27283741424652 T 0x050 32 03 4A 39 36 35 04 54 37 35 33 32 05 36 33 06 2 7965 7532 63 0x060 41 4B 51 38 37 34 03 41 51 32 04 4A 38 05 41 35 0874 02 28 5 0x070 06 4A 36 35 03 37 34 33 04 41 4B 34 05 4B 51 38 J365 743 AK4 KQ8 0x080 32 06 39 33 03 4B 54 38 04 51 39 36 05 54 39 2 93 KT8 096 JT9 0x090 37 34 59 4E 31 20 20 31 20 32 20 20 30 35 30 37 74 12 0507 0 0 0 30 38 31 31 31 33 31 34 33 37 33 38 34 30 34 34 0811131437384044 0 050 34 35 35 30 35 32 30 39 31 38 32 34 32 36 32 39 4550520918242629 0x0c0 33 32 33 33 33 35 33 36 34 31 34 32 34 33 34 36 3233353641424346 0 0 0 30 31 31 30 31 32 31 37 32 30 32 32 32 33 32 37 0110121720222327 0 0 0 33 30 33 39 34 38 34 39 35 31 06 54 38 37 34 32 3039484951 T8742 Ox0f0 03 41 04 34 33 05 41 54 39 34 32 06 36 03 54 34 A 43 AT942 6 T4 0x100 32 04 51 39 38 36 35 05 48 51 4A 38 06 41 35 33 2 09865 008 53 0x110 03 4A 38 36 35 04 41 32 05 36 35 33 06 4B 51 9865 92 653 0x120 4A 39 03 4B 51 39 37 33 04 4B 54 37 05 37 59 4E J9 KQ973 KT7 7YN 0 130 31 20 20 31 20 32 20 20 2 5 PBN format Portable Bridge Notation is the most comprehe
23. 70 update chapter 10 Setup Preferences add chapter 12 Display Control 1 Introduction This manual provides basic information about the Dealer4 PC software version 4 60 and above Screenshots in this manual was taken under Windows7 so on computers with other operation system or with custom settings the software may appear a bit different In this manual the following signs are used to highlight important information Critical information for safety and proper operation of the Dealer4 machine Always read and folow 4 Additional important information 2 Main Menu 2 1 Main Menu window The Main Menu window is displayed when the Dealer 4 software starts From this window all the functions can be accessed File 7 Event Name Generali Euro Team Championship Event Site Montecatini Event Date 1997 06 27 File Name C Dealing_hands Aulpil23 pbn 4 d pes First Board no Last Board Min frequency Boards in Set Max frequency Completed Boards 832 Show Statistics Dealer4 ver 4 50 Ready When started all the text boxes will be empty as shown above They will be filled when a new Board Set is generated or loaded There are few a different groups of controls in the Main Menu window Commands Menu from here all commands be executed Event information shows information about current Board Set Board Set information
24. C and has to be a Dealer4 Since the ADD file type is registered in PC during software installation opening an ADD file directly automatically performs the above action Dealer4 exe C Deal_files Bridge_file pbn Open Dealer4 software and load specified file File has to be in one of the recognized formats BRI DGE BRE DUP PBN ALL or CSV It is recommended to define the full path to the file 12 Display Control The Display Control function is a maintenance function for the Dealer4 machine and allows the setup or control of the front display and other Dealer4 specific functionality This function requires a Delear4 machine connected to PC If invoked for a Dealer4 machine one without a front display the following error will appear Your Dealer4 does not have a Front Display This function cannot be invoked When a Delaer4 is connected the Display Control screen will be displayed 23 27 04 2014 8 53 06 8boards bri 1024 25 09 2014 2 22 46 PM Las Vegas pbn 5382 20 07 2014 5 03 48 b1 pbn 5360 13 09 2014 6 45 04 PM Copy File to File Delete Copy Cance Copy File to Dealer4 Boot version 104 Display Firmware version 2 08 Update Display Firmware Dealer4 time 30 09 2014 3 02 18 PM C d MM yyyy C am pm PC time 30 09 2014 3 02 17 PM dd MM yyyy himm ss Update Dealer4 time C MM yyyy C hhimm ss M d yyyy ywyy MM dd
25. Vu EW 42 4109 052 09 0 873 4 s 1 yi 8 13 P 43 13 Dealer N wK104 Vut 0109864 41096 1086 73 52 452 865 42174 212 wAQJ92 212 473 3 3 14 wAK73 Vul None 84 410854 4087 9654 vQJ10 QJ962 53 A762 Neves 4100652 N23223 82 107 w AKQJ1032 14 0 8 2 18 412 612 8 2 Print Hands Record to the text file The second printing mode is printing Hand Records to the text file This option will produce a text file which is compatible with files from DealMasterPro or other bridge software It can be used with custom software or for web publishing When this mode is selected the Print Screen will open as follows National Settings Standard Print Ten as 40 French ARDV C French 1RDV German C Dutch Danish EKDB First Board 1 Drm 32 ET Header Generali Euro Team Championship Montecatini ITA 1997 06 27 File C Dealing_hands Aulpll23 pbn Available options are Ten Printing the number 10 can be printed numerically as 10 or as a single letter T X for French Z for German Print Analysis print Double Dummy analysis for each board Analysis must be performed before printing will become available Analyze command from Main Menu National Settings this se
26. analyzed the following message will appear Printing analysis is selected but some boards have not been A analyzed Do you want to print anyway Print HCP print High Cards Points for each board Header text to be printed at the top of each page It is the combined Event Site and Date information from the Main Menu but it can be also changed here File name current Board Set file name for information only Boards per Page define how many boards will be printed per one page From Board To Board define board range to be printed Number of copies define how many copies will be printed National Settings this setting allows the printing of card symbols in national characters On the Print Window there are three buttons e Printer setup opens standard Windows Printer Dialogue Box allowing the user to choose the printer and its parameters Please note that orientation of the printing is always Portrait so this setting in the Printer Setup or Printer Properties is overwritten Please pay attention to the selected paper size as some printer drivers change the current size to a default one Print clicking here will perform printing action Exit to come back to Main Menu It is possible to print a picture on the first page or every page of the Hands Record It can be any picture graphic or photo prepared and stored as jpg or bmp file Get Picture File button allows the user to select a
27. ards which were assigned manually will be unchanged only unassigned cards displayed in the middle will be randomly dealt Accept accept all changes made to the current board Once Accept has been clicked the changes cannot be reversed using Restore Restore undo all changed on the current board unless Accept has been clicked Analyze run Double Dummy Analyzer on the current board The changes have to be accepted before analyzer can be used This function only analyzes the current board to analyze all boards use the Analyze function from Main Menu For more information please refer to chapter 7 If it is required to save a Board Set during editing and all the boards are not completed it Q must be saved in PBN or BRE formats Both these formats allow the saving of incomplete boards which can be loaded later to finish editing 7 Analyze 7 1 Basic description Dealer4 software has capability to analyze board to show possible contracts This is done by two analyzers Deep Finesse Deep Finesse was one of the first analyzers The first edition was introduced 1999 Deep Finesse is slower then Bo Haglund DDS Haglund DDS newest addition to the analyzer world much faster the Deep Finesse and produces the same results It has multitasking built in so its uses all resources of the modern computers However because of that it can slow down very old computers Both analyzers give the same results In Se
28. ark 15 8754 Board 16 amp KQ875 Dealer wK104 Deabr E 9107 Dealer S 1087 Dealer W 0109864 Vul None 0985 Vul NS EW 1096 4 52 498 4KQJ972 410932 4102 865 1065 972 A1093 454 N v yAQJ92 212 212 73 a 42 Generali Euro Team Cham ionship Dealer Vul NS 974 653 AQ108 4A108542 409 10764 waves M2 N2243 wA1082 52243 E S 2 4452 13 49743 None KJ972 wQ654 Vul All AK104 496 511065 2 107 Board 15 K8754 S wAQ1087 43 107542 4463 410754 Deabr E 102 Vul NS 862 01094 108763 400 6 982 4 4AJ63 Hands Statistics Average HCP 941 978 10 84 9 97 19 192081 102 vKJ753 440106 5 983 95 4876 v62 10754 16 a 8 Dealer W Vul None vKJ8752 86 4K9654 Neves 4082 3 1082 1113 104 Ww 11 3 4 10 12 Boant 16 KQ875 Dealer W Vul EW 643 2 087 41964 v32 Q 4187654 42 84335 E w 1 40 20 Dealer W WAJ94 Vul All 01082 05 2 105 010762 853 43 102 1065 972 441093 43 Montecatini ITA 1997 06 27 Board 1 amp K84 wJ102 419765 1 w985 102 8742
29. ave the same function as for Hands Record printing Next pages show examples of Score Cards printing for various formats Generali Euro Team Championship Montecatini ITA 1997 06 27 Board 1 84 Dealr N 7972 87 amp AJ976 402 04 WAK763 0 543 485432 T Newea 919765 9 1 1 9985 i 44 py 10 w 44 Generali Euro Team Championship Montecatini 1997 06 27 Generali Euro Team Championship Montecatini ITA 1997 06 27 Board 1 Dealer N Vul None 04 96 85432 4K84 9 12 87 AJ976 4Q2 AK763 QJ543 8 9765 985 2 9 Hee 10 Board 2 Dealer E Vul NS 9974 65 8542 Naves 3 3 48 752 vK3 742 4 76 4963 WAJTS AQT8 09 4QJT84 13 vQ652 9 7 Hee 13 43 7 Generali Euro Team Championship Montecatini ITA 1997 06 27 Board kag Dealer N JT 4 87 AAT yai VAKTES 26 063 485422 AT Novem 600765 1 Match Points NS EW Pair Generali Euro Team Championship Montecatini ITA 1997 06 27 2 Dealer E YKJ Vul e E 8963 vont AQTS ATES 40 Neves s 0852 ea Match Contract Tricks EW Sue Points Pair Decaer Made Store Generali Euro Team Championship Montecatini ITA 1997 06 27 Board 3 Dealer 8
30. by default which means that the boards are not visible This allows the operator to play because he will not be able see the boards To display hide the boards click on the Display boards or Hide boards button It is possible to change the default setting for board display in Setup Preference If boards are being displayed the Dealing Boards window will be look like this File Name C Dealing hands AulplI23 pbn Dealer Status Idle Number of copies 1 d Dealing time Previous Copy Copy Standard Large Jumbo National Settings Standard French ARDV C French 1RDV German AKDB Dutch Danish EKDB Swedish EKDKn Card Type Standard Prev Next Deal xt Last 9 9 Card Font iv Automatically start dealing when a board is inserted Cock Board Number Bold Normal First Board 1 Last Board 32 Dealingfrom 1 32 Fine The Dealing Boards window has the following control and information fields File name information about the current Board Set file name Dealer Status shows current status of the Dealer4 can be Idle Busy or Error Dealing Time shows dealing time of one board Number of copies shows how many copies of each board will be dealt This option is visible only when dealing multiple copies of the same board is enabled in Setup Prefe
31. ch card in the board is stored as a two digit number with the following arrangement 01 Ace of Spades 02 King of spades 13 Two of Spades 14 Ace of Hearts 15 King of hearts 26 Two of Hearts 27 Ace of Diamonds 28 King of Diamonds 39 Two of Diamonds 40 Ace of Clubs 41 King of Clubs 52 Two of Clubs First 26 digits store cards for N hand next 26 for E and next 26 for S The rest of the unused cards go to W Below is example of the two sample boards in BRI format It is shown in hexadecimal and ASCII view 0x00 30 35 31 33 31 37 31 39 32 32 32 33 33 31 33 34 0513171922233134 0x10 33 36 33 38 33 39 34 38 35 31 30 31 30 32 30 33 3638394851010203 0x20 30 37 30 38 31 31 31 34 31 36 32 36 33 30 33 33 0708111416263033 0x30 34 30 34 39 30 34 30 39 31 30 32 31 32 34 32 35 4049040910212425 0x40 32 37 32 38 33 37 34 31 34 32 34 36 35 32 20 20 27283741424652 0x50 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 0x60 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 00 00 us 0x70 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x80 30 35 30 37 30 38 31 31 31 33 31 34 33 37 33 38 0507081113143738 0 90 34 30 34 34 34 35 35 30 35 32 30 39 31 38 32 34 4044455052091824 0xa0 32 36 32 39 33 32 33 33 33 35 33 36 34 31 34 32 2629323335364142 0xb0 34 33 34 36 30 31 31 30 31 32 31 37 32 30 32 32 4346011012172022 0xc0 32 33 32 37 33 30 33 39 34 38 34 39 35 31 20 20 23273
32. d Section 8 for more information Hands Shapes window shows distribution of suits within a hand For each shape the following statistics are displayed e Shape How many hands have particular shape Actual The number of hands with this shape Expected What is statistically expected e Difference Differences between actual and expected values There are three more text boxes which show additional statistical information e Inner Similarity finds two hands in the Board Set with highest number of the identical cards for example if the following is displayed 8 7N 6W it means that in board 7 hand N and board 6 hand W there are 8 of the same cards The 8 is the maximum number of same cards found in the set but there can be more hand pairs with 8 of the same cards only one example is displayed Min Frequency shows which card appears the minimum number of times in a particular hand For example 6 2D 5 means that 6 percent of the 5 hands have a 2 of diamonds Max Frequency similar to Min Frequency but shows maximum number A Typical board set 24 32 boards is not big enough to do any judgment about quality of the random generator based on the provided statistical information To do such testing it is required to analyze at least few thousand boards Such analysis has been done and are available upon request 3 File command group File command group consists of four commands New Load Save and Exit 3 1
33. d goes through the board will be displayed on the screen Read function requires empty Boards Set which can be generated using File New command There is a Clear button which allows clearing of current boards without leaving the Reading Boards window It is especially useful when a Dealing Error happens and it is necessary to reread a partially read board The other controls are the same as in the Dealing Boards window After reading the last board in the Board Set it is recommended to save Board Set using File Save command 6 Edit command Edit command allows the operator to manually setup or change the boards Apart from editing the boards it also allows manipulation within a Board Set eg changing boards numbers shifting and adding or deleting boards When Edit function is entered without any prior Board Set generation or loaded automatically an empty Board Set will be generated and it will consist of one board When entering the following screen will appear Current Board p Last Board 32 Total Boards 92 a Next East First Last 4 02 AK763 Delete Insert Add amp T South Cut Paste 1 9765 SE 985 Clipboard 2 Analyze 2 Clear Random fill Restore The Edit screen has three control groups File name showing file name for the Board Set Current Board editing allow
34. d windows turn red when the motors are on this indicates there is something wrong and a service centre should be contacted Gate 1 3 open close a particular gate e Photo 1 5 Shows time in milliseconds when card passes each photo interrupter A Photo interrupter is the small black device located behind each pair of the rollers First roller has two of them This device detects presence of cards and controls their movements inside machine When there is no card these windows are green when a card is inside of any photo interrupter that particular window turns red Normally all the windows should be green If any of them is red please check if a card or anything else is inside the machine If machine is empty the photo interrupter may be dirty please clean it Feed card when clicked card will be feed into the machine Before using this function motors must be turned on One card will go through and Photo 1 5 windows will show how fast it happened Normal values for Photo 2 5 are 46 50 for Photo 1 60 80 Higher value for Photo1 may indicate dirty feeder roller or too tight feeder width problems with card feeding If any of the Photo windows after feeding the card stays red shows value 255 it means that particular photo interrupter is dirty and required cleaning Test Deal this function is used to diagnose various card recognition problems especially Duplicate Card Error See chapter 9 7 for more informatio
35. do not save Dealer and Vulnerability Information Only PBN format saves makeable contracts analysis See Appendix A for more information about available file formats 3 4 Exit command This command closes the Main Menu window and closes the program 4 Deal command Deal command is used to deal the current Board Set 4 1 Communication with the Dealer4 machine Dealer4 machine is controlled from the PC A USB connection between the PC and the machine is required to operate Also the power adapter provided should be connected to the machine and the mains power outlet Both these connections have to be completed before selecting the Deal command Entering the Deal command as well as the Read and Maintenance commands will turn on the machine and start communication between the machine and computer If there are no problems the Deal screen will appear and dealing process can be started The following problems can occur at this stage a USB Initialization Errc Cannot communicate with Dealer4 Error 255 1 Please check if USB cable is connected to the PC and Dealer4 If connection is OK please disconnect USB cable momentarily and reconnect Click OK to retry communication Cancel Typically this error happens if the machine is not connected to the computer or there problem with initialization of the USB port in the PC In this case please the follow instructions on the screen and check the USB connection If the phy
36. e board set using Insert function This is only possible by using the Add function N e lt lt Shift Left shifts whole Board Set one position to the left Pal P rd 10 11 12 13 gt gt Shift Right shift whole Board Set one position to the right e Cut delete current board and put it into the Clipboard All boards higher than the current board will be shifted left 5 um Copy copy current board to Clipboard Board Set will remain unchanged d dM Paste insert board from Clipboard into the current board position All boards with higher numbers than the current board will be shifted right Number of boards in the Board Set will be increased by one Clicking Delete will undo this Paste function Please note that because the Paste function shifts all boards higher equal to the current board to the right it is not possible to paste a board on the end of the Board Set If such action is required please add one empty board to the end of the Board Set Add function then set it as current board Last function and paste the board from the clipboard Paste function Then return to the last board and delete it Delete function If there is a board in the Clipboard after Cut or Copy and Cut or Copy is clicked again the previously stored board will be lost and it i
37. eal 305 is another ASCII text format It uses the all extension Each board is stored in a separate line 54 characters long The first 52 characters are numbers from 0 to 3 and there are CRLF 0 00 0 0 characters to finish the line First number in the line shows in which hand Ace of Spade is 0 N 1 E 2 S 3 W second number is for king of spade 14th ace of hearts 27th ace of diamonds 52th two of clubs 1112031122130131030320022122310310302001223332301302 2333030012020033213232213123123113110020111001322020 A7 CSV CSV Comma Separated Values is popular computer format which allows easy data transfer between different programs for example export to Excel or Word It is an ASCII text format Each board s information is stored in the separate lines Cards are written in AKQJT98765432 characters starting from N spades then N Hearts then N Diamonds then N Clubs then E hand then S hand then W hand On the end of the line there is a board number and Dealer Vul information Each suit is written in and separated by a comma T2 J965 T7532 63 AKQ874 AQ2 J8 A5 265 743 AK4 KQ82 93 KT8 096 7974 1 N T8742 A 43 AT942 6 T42 09865 KQJ8 A53 J865 AJ2 653 KQ J9 KQ973 KT7 7 2 E NS Appendix Dealing Errors B1 Gate Errors Error Title Error Possible action Card did not go to South 1 17 Ca
38. ecause the current Dealer4 display firmware version 2 10 does not support subdirectories these cannot be selected and copied If a copied file already exists in the Dealer4 memory the following message will appear File 8boards bri already exist in Dealer4 internal memory Delete file and try to copy again It is not possible to overwrite existing files Existing files must be deleted from the Dealer4 Internal Memory using the File Delete button before attempting to copy again Several other errors are also possible File name too long Internal Dealer4 Memory file names are limited to max 120 characters Dealer4 accepts long file names but the length is limited to 120 characters including the file extension However it is recommend to use file names no longer that 30 40 characters Internal Dealer4 Memory is full e File long file zip is too large to copy w Error no 541 First error happens when the selected file size is larger than 30MB which is bigger than the Dealer4 Internal Memory The second error appears when there is no more free space in the Dealer4 Internal Memory To copy a file from the Dealer4 Internal Memory to a PC follow these steps 1 Select file to copy on the file list window 2 Click on the Copy File to PC button this button will be active only when a file is selected 3 Onthe Window Dialog Box select file location and click Save to save the file to the PC
39. ed That means that machine will not recognize if the Flip Plate is open or closed This setting should be used only when the Flip Plate is removed See Flip Plate Operation Manual for more details When the Disable Flip Plate Switch is checked the machine can start dealing with the Flip Plate open This will result in a nasty card jam as an opened Flip Plate overlaps the card space area Disable Board Switch if checked the machine will ignore the Board Switch This allows the dealing of cards onto transparent boards or when the Board Switch is not working properly See chapter 9 9 for more information Use Board Number Reader as Board Switch this option allows the presence of a board to be recognized by reading the board number bar coded sticker See chapter 9 9 for more information Enable Slow Dealing this option slow down dealing by around 2s per board It can be use if normal fast dealing creating any problems Can improve card fitting for new plastic cards with high electrostatic effect e Broad Switch Sensitivity set Board Switch Sensitivity Only for Main Electronic Board version 11 or later See chapter 9 9 for more information Calibrate Board Switch button automatically find proper Board Switch Sensitivity Only for Main Electronic Board version 11 or later See chapter 9 9 for more details Save parameters button save any changes to the parameters in machine Get parameters button restore curren
40. er failure When Leave Boards Empty is selected the New screen will look like First Board in Set 1 C Generate Random Boards Last Board in Set 22 v Reie Reed 010 72 Shapes Rejected Inner Similarity Rejected History Rejected Historic File Inner Similarity Historic Similarity Boards generated Generate Empty Board Set Exit BigDeal code is provided by courtesy of Hans van Staveren In this case the only available buttons are Generate Empty Board Set and Exit 3 2 Load command Load command is used to load previously saved Board Set or Board Set downloaded from the Internet or any another source Seven different file formats are supported BRI basic format widely used in Bridge DGE similar to BRI with different way of storing hands BRE extended form of DGE file used in AutoDealer3 machines Allows recording of Event information and not completed boards DUP file format used for Duplimate DOS machines PBN Portable Bridge Notation most comprehensive format Allows the recording of Event information board numbers dealer and vulnerability information as well as makeable contract analysis ALL DEAL305 format used by DEAL305 software CSV comma separated values format which allows easy transfer to Excel or other software BRI DGE DUP ALL and CSV formats do not support Event information Fields Event Name Event Date and Event Site will be empty a
41. eration functions are left over from the very early today It is recommended that the Shape Reject setting is turned off as this will provide a purely random card distribution Inner similarity Rejects and History Rejects never happen These functions still exist in the current software for the users who do not believe in the computer generated boards There are two buttons for generating the Boards and an Exit button Generate Boards using BigDeal to generate a Board Set using the BigDeal generator this button is only visible when the BigDeal generator is enable in Setup Preferences Generate Boards using Dealer4 generator to generate a Board Set using the Dealer4 generator this button is only visible when the Dealer4 generator is enable in Setup Preferences Exit to return to the Main Menu To generate a new Board Set the following actions need to be taken 1 Set First Board and Last Board number 2 Select Generate random boards or Leave boards empty 3 If generating random boards decide which options are required check required boxes 4 Click Generate Boards 5 Click Exit to return to the Main Menu window When History reject option is checked especially for large Board Sets and on a slow PC generating boards can take some time Progress of the generation can be observed on the Boards generated box It is recommended to save from Main Menu the newly generated Board Set to prevent data loss for example due a pow
42. fter files with these formats are loaded BRI DGE BRE and DUP formats do not support board number information When loading these files the software will assume that the First Board number is always board number 1 After loading the following window appear It allows the user to shift the loaded Board Set to the required board number range 32 Boards were loaded BRI format does not support board numbers Loaded boards are allocated as follows First Board 1 92 To change board allocation enter new First Board number in the text box above OK For BRI DGE BRE and DUP formats Dealer and Vulnerability information will always be set according to the board number For PBN files these parameters will be set according to the information in the file Technically DUP format has board numbers included in the file But most programs that generate DUP file set these fields to 0 If board numbers exist in a DUP file the above message will not be generated and the boards will be allocated accordingly See Appendix A for more details 3 3 Save command Similarly like in the Load command available formats are BRI DGE BRE DUP ALL CSV and PBN The limitations of these formats are as follows e BRI ALL and BRE do not save board numbers e BRI DGE DUP ALL CSV do not save Event Information BRI DGE DUP ALL CSV do not allow the saving of empty or incomplete boards e BRI DUP BRE ALL
43. hip Montecatini ITA 1997 06 27 File C Dealing_hands Aulpil23 pbn Selected Printer HP LaserJet Professional P1102w Paper size A4 210 x 297 mm There are a few new options available only to this mode other options are the same as for Hands Record printing e Print NS Pair Number when selected NS pair numbers will be printed in the first column of the Score Card e Print Boards when selected boards will be printed on the top of the score card e first NS Pair define the first NS pair number to be printed only available if Print NS Pair Number is selected e Number of lines defines how many score lines will be printed it is possible to set to 99 lines but too many lines makes line height very small and it is impractical e Score Cards per page defines how many score card will be printed per one page 1 Card per page format is designed for custom paper size for example 100mm x 200mm so cutting sheets will be not required Using A4 or letter size for this format is not recommended Printing orientation for this format is always Portrait 2 Score Card per page prints 2 score card per one page Can be used in A4 letter or any smaller size of paper Orientation is always Portrait o 4 Score Cards per page use less paper but requires more cutting For these formats A4 or letter paper sizes should be used Orientation is always Landscape Buttons Printer Setup Print and Exit h
44. ill appear on completion The machine will then restart with the new firmware The current version of the Display Firmware can be seen on the Front Display main screen and also on the Display Control window Dealer4 machine has two types of firmware Q Dealer4 Firmware which has extension ADC and controls the main processor in the machine the same as for Dealer4 machine It is responsible for all machine operation including card recognition The second firmware is Dealer4 Display Firmware which has extension ADD and controls operation of the Front Display It exists only in Dealer4 machines During downloading some errors can occur the most common is n Display Firmware do Invalid or corrupted Display Firmware file This means that an invalid file has been selected or the firmware file is corrupted Download firmware file from the web and try to update again 12 3 Real Time Clock Dealer4 machine has a Real Time Clock implemented which can show current date and time Current version of the Display Firmware does not use it for anything apart from displaying date and time on the front screen but future revisions of the Display Firmware will use it On the RTC section has the following controls e display current date and time from the Dealer4 machine and PC computer Update Dealer4 time button clicking this button will synchronize the Dealer4 date and time to the PC Update Dealer4 time automatica
45. lable both free and payable An example of a free writer is CutePDF please see www cutepdf com for more information 8 5 Creating HTML file Dealer4 software does not have the ability to print to HTML format built in To create HTML hands records install a HTML writer on the computer The process of creating a HTML is the same as for a PDF 9 Maintenance command This command allows checking the operation of the Dealer4 change parameters and downloading new firmware To enter Maintenance machine have to be connected to the computer and to the power supply The Maintenance screen is shown below Serial number 5200 Boards dealt 152 Manufacture date 20 5 2014 Hardware ID 255 Firmware version 03 06 Download ID fio Jumbo Por Seta USB ID 1424 Flash ID 141 USB Drivers 3300 DLL version 3100 Boot version 01 22 FPGA version 11 Symbol Download New Firmware Create Service File Threshold x Bold 20 n Brightness Y Fine 80 Motorson 4 Motor3 2 Motori Y 5 Suit size Gate 1 Photo5 Photo4 Photo3 Photo2 Photo Show i Threshold Gate2 58 lo lo lo Error Bold 20 Feed Card Test Deal resholds Sut OFF Front Switch Board No Flip Plate ere Parameters ID 2 P 9 Disable Board Switch Camera Power oN Board Switch
46. lly when checked date and time in the Dealer4 will be updated automatically when the difference between the Dealer4 and the PC is greater than 30s Date format and Time format allows selection of the format in which date and time will be displayed on the Front Display of the machine These settings are automatically updated and saved in the machine when changed Dealer4 RTC is powered by a small watch battery to keep time when the machine is off The life time of the battery is greater then 5 years and will be checked and replaced if necessary during machine services Appendix File Formats Dealer4 software can load and save Board Sets in the few different formats Examples and descriptions for all formats are shown below All examples use the following Board Set which consists of 2 boards File Format Samples Melbourne 01 01 2013 Board T2 Board 2 T8742 Dealer N J965 Dealer E None Vul T7532 NS Vul 43 63 AT942 93 AKQ874 KQJ9 6 02 KQ973 9742 4096 8 KT7 09865 amp JT974 A5 7 KQJ8 165 1 eee 53 8 5 9743 6 20 v J865 14 8 AKA pe 2 32 2 W44213 KQ82 32 5653 1 BRI format stores hands using 128 bytes record for each board The first 78 bytes store information about deal These bytes are followed by 32 space characters 0x20 and then there are 18 null characters to form 128 bytes record Ea
47. ly shuffled cards for the user who does not trust computer generated boards The Reading Boards window is very similar to the Dealing Boards window with a couple of additional controls el js File Name Dealer Status Idle Card Index Hide boards C Small Dealing time Standard Large Jumbo National Settings Standard AKQJ C French ARDV C French 1RDV German AKDB C Dutch AHVB Danish C Swedish EKDKn Card Type Standard Prev Next Read Clear Say tead next First Last Break Card Font Bold Normal Simulate hand dealing single card to every hand Read already played boards cards sort in top N E W S bottom order There are two modes available on the bottom on the screen 1 Read already played boards used when board was already played and the hand record needs to be produced Cards have to be put in the Feeder in a certain order first on the bottom S hand then W then E and last on the top N hand Cards will be read and directed to the same pocket so the board before this process and the one after will be the same 2 Simulate hand dealing to deal manually shuffled cards in this mode the card will be directed to the hand pocket the same way as manual dealing e g if Dealer is N first card from the top will go to N then to E then to S etc During dealing card will be read and when the last car
48. mbers Possible action Card Recognition Error 25 to 53 Continue Cancel Duplicate Card Error 54 Continue Cancel Card does not belong to selected National Settings 61 Cancel A Card Recognition Error occurs when the machine cannot read the card It may be caused by the card itself for example if the symbols on the card are damaged card has unusual fonts or sizes which are not supported by the current software or the camera lens can be dirty settings in the software can be incorrect for a given type of card or have been altered or there is some other fault in the machine Occasional Card Recognition Errors may occur if it happened less then once per 100 boards is should be considered as normal Try to rotate cards in the feeder or re deal boards again If Recognition errors occur frequently and machine camera is clean it is recommended to create a Service File using a problem card as described in chapter 9 6 and send it to a service centre for advice Duplicate Card Error has two possible cases e Genuine Duplicate Card Error when 2 of the same cards exist in one deck Before dealing be sure the deck is correct Also in some situation if a card is missing deck has only 51 cards the machine may try to read the 52th card from the next deck One of the already dealt cards was read incorrectly as the current card This has to be considered as a Card Recognition Error but on one of the previously dealt cards The reasons for
49. me board is inserted and Check Board Number settings can be locked in Setup Parameters Card index National Settings Card Type Card Font Automatically start dealing when a to prevent accidental change by operator 4 3 Dealing boards To deal boards please follow these steps 1 When entering the Deal window for the first time select which cards are being used in National Setting Card Type and Card Print 2 Put cards into machine feeder two decks of cards should be put into the feeder 3 Start dealing by clicking on the Deal button or insert board into the machine if Automatically start dealing when a board is inserted is checked or press START button on the front panel on the Dealer4 4 After the first board is dealt the Deal next button will be activated Pressing it will advance to the next board and start dealing The START button and inserting a board into the machine act as if the Deal next button if it is active otherwise they act as the Deal button When the last board in the set or last copy of the last board is successfully dealt the following message will appear You have succesfully dealt the last board in the set Do you wish to move to the first board 4 4 Dealing multiple copies of the same board Normally each board is dealt once and the program advances to the next board automatically But sometimes it may be required to deal more copies of the same board before advancing to
50. milarity Rejected History Rejected Historic File Inner Similarity Historic Similarity Generate Boards using BigDeal Boards generated Generate Boards using 4 generator courtesy of Hans van Stavere Before generating a new Board Set the following parameters need to be set e First Board set defines the number of the first board in the generated set usually will be board number 1 but any another number from 1 to 640 can be entered e Last Board in set defines the number of last board in set maximum number is 640 and must be equal or higher than the First Board In most cases Board Set will have boards in ranges of 1 to 32 1 to 33 1 to 24 1 to 16 17 to 32 etc Maximum number of boards in the Board Set is 640 from 1 to 640 Such a large Board Set has no practical use but it can be used for example to check the statistics of the random generator Generate Random Boards when this option is selected all boards in the Boards Set will be randomly generated Leave boards empty this option will generate an empty Board Set Choose this option if Read cards or manual setup using Edit function is required Below there are three controls which allow modification of some of the parameters for random generation Shape reject when selected only a certain number of boards with a particular shape are allowed This threshold is set to double of the statistical expected number
51. n Camera LEDs turn on off camera illumination LEDs Camera Power turn on off camera power e Front Green LED turn on off front panel green LED e Front Red LED turn on off front panel red LED e Front Switch shows state of the front panel Start switch when pressed is ON green when released is OFF red Board Switch shows presence of a removable board or Board Insert Dealing Platform inside the machine When ON green a board is present when OFF red is not Specifics of this test depend on the board switch operation mode See chapter 9 4 for more information Cover Switch shows state of the top cover When ON green cover is closed when OFF red cover is open e Flip Plate Switch shows state of the Flip Plate when ON green Flip Plate is closed when OFF red Flip Plate is open This test is only active when the Camera LEDs are on Board no shows the board number of the currently inserted board Requires bar coded labels on the board and is active only for machines equipped with a Board Number Reader When 0 is displayed no board inserted the board has no bar coded label or the machine does not have a Board Number Reader Temperature shows temperature in Celsius inside machine Should be less then 50 deg for normal use Supply voltage shows voltage of the power supply Typical value is 18 9V 5 Tests additional information only used by service centers Create Service File
52. n error happens If any recognition errors occur the following message will be displayed The JH was recognised but 25 was expected Click OK to generate Service File Click on OK button will generate a Service File which should be sent to the service centre Please note that only a recognition error will cause a service file to be created other dealing errors like for example No Top Cover will be displayed the same way as for normal dealing and the same actions Continue Cancel can be performed It is recommended to catch the error at least a couple of times as this gives more detailed information for analysis at the service centre Please note that an incorrectly flashed deck will give an error as the recognized card will be different than expected So please sure that the deck is correctly flushed before starting a Test Deal 9 8 Auto Setup The Auto Setup function is used to automatically set some of the recognition parameters Frame Position and Start Point In most cases for the normal use of the Dealer4 factory settings are good and do not require any adjustments However when unusual types of cards are used much different in sizes or symbol position it may be required to run an Auto Setup It is especially applicable to the Small Card Index because due to the camera zoom function enlarge for the small cards small differences in the symbol or suit position end up as big shifts in the captured picture
53. n the front of the machine is open Close the Flip Plate and click Continue to deal To avoid this error if the Flip Plate is removed Flip Plate Switch has to be disabled in the Maintenance screen see chapter 9 4 for details
54. ncel Card did not go to West 2 18 Cancel Card did not go to East 3 19 Cancel Card did not go to North 4 20 Cancel Extra card in S 5 21 Cancel Extra card in W 6 22 Cancel Extra card in E 7 23 Cancel Extra card in N 8 24 Cancel There are two types of the Gate Errors e Card did not go to S W E when card should go to a particular pocket and it did not Typically because a gate was not open Extra card in S E W has dropped into a particular pocket but should not Typically because gate was open Both types of gate errors indicate improper behavior of the gates When this happens too often it is a mechanical or electrical problem with the solenoids or the shape of the gate is incorrect for example a gate was bent during machine cleaning The machine should be sent to a Service Centre for repairs B2 Card Jam Errors Error Title Error Possible action Card Jam Error 9to 16 Cancel A Card Jam Error occurs when a card or something else is sitting inside the machine Open the top cover and see if machine is empty If there is a card inside remove it If the machine is empty the problem may be dirty photo interrupters clean them as described in chapter 2 5 of Dealer4 Maintenance Adjusting and Cleaning Manual If any of the above actions not help and Card Jam Errors still occur machine will have to be sent to a Service Centre B3 Card Recognition Errors Error Title Error nu
55. ne is availability to check the correct board is inserted and eliminate mistakes with board numbers This function requires the use of bar coded stickers on the boards Please refer to Board Number Reader Manual for more information To enable this function please enable Check Board Number on the Deal screen Some older machines are not equipped with the Board Number Reader For these machines the following error will appear when trying enable this function Your Dealer4 machine is not equipped with Board Number Reader This setting cannot be selected When using board number checking the dealing procedure does not change When a board with a matching number is inserted there is no difference to normal dealing however if the wrong board is inserted the following message will appear It shows which board is inserted 16 and which board is expected 13 Following action are possible take out the incorrect board and insert the correct one most common and recommended action Deal to the current board ignore board number error and deal to the currently inserted board Cancel cancel dealing this board and return to the Deal screen When the inserted board has no bar coded sticker or the sticker is damaged the machine will report it as 22 The possible actions are as before 23 5 Read command The Read command allows reading previously played cards to produce hand records or deal manual
56. nerali Euro Team Champi ip Montecatini ITA 1997 06 27 12 a B 14 12 18 26 6 Dealer N Vul None 103 04 485432 Neves N 1 1 1 1 E 44 w 44 Board 4 an Dealer W Vul All es 43 4094 7010984 A9832 Vul None 10963 4 J97543 ES Vul All Vul None 4J1065 AQ82 9974 863 0108 Neves 40 Dealer N Vul None 103 04 96 85432 4722 44 44 Board 4 Dealer W Vul All 4094 Vul All 862 0932 865 4074 4 212 212 1096 0 972 Dealer Vul NS a 974 653 108542 Dealer Vul None 0109 vK7 KQJ1074 53 43 VAQJ84 A9832 aK4 874 1093 5 09862 41 11 10 14 18 3 8 12 1 14 4 11 7 12 2 a 23 18 25 3 6 Dealer W wKJ753 eKQ AQ106 4963 0843 v974 108 vKJ2 653 AQ108 AQ75 108542 09 76 0 1084 nevea 0652 Dealer W wKJ8752 KQJ1074 i Vul All 53 453 KQJ932 43 vAQJ84 9832 4 874 102 N v v1093 5 1082 N2243 295 qu Board 10 403 11 49743 Deabr E 0654 Dealer 5 1083 Vul All 104 None amp KJ972 4J96 4J1065 4975 v A965 863 965 A0108 4087 974 46 082 44 932 waves 1082 10 N eKQ104 En 34 Witt 3 Board 14 10986 Bo
57. nside the machine Only used by support centers e USB drivers version of USB drivers currently installed on the PC computer DDL version version of the USB drivers library Boot version version of boot software inside the machine Boot software is used to load the firmware during machine startup FPGA version shows version of the configuration file for the programmable logic chip used inside the machine This is part of the firmware Download New Firmware button attempt to update the firmware inside the machine by clicking this button See chapter 9 5 for more information All the above information is stored in the main electronics board inside the machine In some rare cases during service or repair it may be necessary to replace this board If the board is replaced some values may not be retrieved from the old board In such cases the number of boards dealt can be reset shows 0 and manufacturing date can show the manufacturing date of the replacement board not the manufacturing date of the machine 9 2 Test Section The Test Section allows the running of a basic machine operation test This section has the following controls and information Motors on turn on the driving motors Motor 4 1 Speed shows actual speed of motors for each pair of rollers A typical speed value is between 146 150 When the speed is in the allowable range the background is green If any backgrounds of the motor spee
58. nsive format and it allows the storage of not only boards but also player s names games results and much more Full description of this format is beyond of this document but can be found on the web for example on http www tistis nl pbn Dealer4 software reads only tags relevant to the boards Event Site Date Board Deal and analysis if available DoubleDummyTricks All remaining tags are omitted so loading and saving a file in the PBN format will end up with different files PBN format is ASCII text format so file can be read or edited using any text editor 5 Dealer4 ver 4 50 Event File Format Samples Site Melbourne Date 01 01 2013 Board 1 Dealer N Vulnerable None Deal N T2 J965 T7532 63 AKQ874 A02 38 A5 J65 743 AK4 KQ82 93 8 096 01974 DoubleDummyTricks 1111111111 9 79 8 79 OptimumResultTable Declarer Denomination 2R Result 2R S 1 H D 5 1 1 1 1 1 0 9 7 9 10 S 1 H 1 D 1 QE NT 1 10 8 7 9 0 m C NT 1 5 Event Site Date Board 2 1 Dealer Vulnerable NS Deal 6 42 09865 008 53 865 2 653 KQJ9 KQ973 KT7 7 8742 43 942 DoubleDummyTricks 11111111118198181981 OptimumResultTable Declarer Denomination 2R Result 2R A6 DEAL305 ALL D
59. of boards For example if for a Board Set of 32 boards statistically shape 5521 is expected to occur 4 times therefore only 8 such boards will be allowed If a ninth identical board is generated it will be rejected The number of rejected boards is displayed in the Shapes rejected text box Because internal calculations are subject to rounding it is possible that the A number of actual shapes is greater then 2 times of the expected number This is normal especially for smaller Board Sets and small expected values Inner similarity reject this option checks all hands in the current Board Set If selected and if two identical hands occur that board will be rejected Inner similarity reject shows the maximum similarity between two hands in the generated Board Set and the number of boards rejected For Example 9 21N 17W means that in board 21 and 17 there are hands which have 9 of the same cards History reject similar to Inner Similarity but this option checks hands against previously generated or loaded Boards Sets Any time a Board Set is saved or loaded all hands are saved ina special file history dat Hands stored in this file are checked with the current generated boards If the same hand is found that board will be rejected Default values for all controls can be set in Setup Preferences versions of the dealing software when random generators were not as good as they are o Options to control random gen
60. rd French ARDV Print Statistics after last board French 1RDV Do not print Picture Print Picture on first page only Danish EKDB C Print Picture on every page C Print Ten 10 Get Picture file Picture file name C Dealerd_DatalplaybridgeDealerd jpg Picture Layout IPlayBndgeDeolerz XEM DNE DNI DD Click on Picture to enlarge First Board 1 Last Board 24 Header Generali Euro Team Champs 97 Montecatini ITA 1997 06 27 File Name CADeal files AulpID3 pbn Selected Printer HP LaserJet Professional P1102w Paper size A4 210 x 297 mm Ten Printing the number 10 can be printed numerically as 10 or as single letter T X for French Z for German Statistics Printing current Board Set statistics shown on Main Menu screen can be printed before the boards on the first page or after boards on the last page Print statistics can also be disabled Please note that statistics occupy the space of one board so on the first or on the last page one less board will be printed e Color printing select when color printing is required If selected on black and white printers the colors will be printed as grayscale Print Analysis print Double Dummy analysis for each board Analysis must be performed before printing will become available Analyze command from Main Menu If any board within the printing range has not been
61. rences Previous Copy Next Copy buttons allow user to select which copy to deal Only visible when dealing multiple copies of the same board is enabled Prev Next First Last buttons allow user to navigate through the Board Set Deal start dealing of the current board Deal next advance to the next board and start dealing e Break break current dealing Dealing can be resumed by clicking the Continue button e Exit finish dealing and go back to the Main Menu e Automatically start dealing when a board is inserted when checked dealing will be started when a Board is inserted into the machine Check Board Number if selected the software will check if correct board is inserted into the machine Refer to chapter 4 7 for more information e Card Index select which size fonts are present on the cards being used 225 la ag W E Standard Card Index size Large card index size Small card index size This setting is very important for proper machine operation If the incorrectly setting is selected it will cause Read Card Error or Duplicate Card Error during dealing Small setting usually requires adjustment of some other parameters to work correctly if such cards are being used it is recommended to perform Auto Setup see chapter 9 8 or contact a service centre to get advice on how to properly setup the machine National Settings select which type of cards are
62. s not possible to recover it 6 2 Current Board Editing The section on the left of the Edit widow is used to edit of the current board Board Set First Board Tm Current Board Last Board handsMulpll23 pbn Prev First Delete Insert Add Clipboard Analyze 752 3 742 76 E 963 AJT8 AQT8 09 5 QJT84 0652 J9 J3 W 974 K653 AT8542 Clear Accept Random fill Restore The hand and suit which is currently being edited is highlighted in yellow card be inserted by clicking on one of the buttons from the Card Insert Buttons group or by typing AKQJT98765432 on the keyboard All unassigned cards are shown in the middle of the board To delete card from the hand press the Del or Backspace key on the keyboard The In Board information area displays the current number of cards in each hand The boxes are normally red and become green when 13 cards are assigned in each hand The blue boxes display the current HCP for each hand Following functions are available e CW rotate hands clockwise CCW rotate hands counterclockwise N W swap N and W hands S W swap S and W hands N E swap N and E hands N S swap N and S hands S E swap S and E hands E W swap E and W hands Clear remove all cards from all hands Random fill randomly generate all hands All c
63. s the editing of the current board Board Set editing navigate through the Board Set Select current board to edit delete copy paste or add Exit button to return to the Main Menu 6 1 Board Set Editing Board Set editing allows the modification of the current board including the options to delete insert shifting cut copy and paste boards In the below examples the following convention is used board not in the board set board belongs the board set sis current board The Board Set editing section has the following controls buttons Prev Next First Last set current board current board will be displayed in the Current Board window and is ready for editing Delete delete current board current board will be deleted and removed from the Board Set All boards higher than the current board will be shifted left This action cannot be undone P dii x Insert insert empty board in the current board position All boards with a number higher than the current board will be shifted right Number of boards in the current Board Set will be increased by one Clicking Delete will undo the Insert function Empty board 2 Add similar to Insert but Add will insert an empty board the end of the Board Set regardless of which board is the current board Please note that because the Insert function shifts the current board right it is not possible to add a board on the end of th
64. should be used with caution If board numbers are not checked it may lead to the wrong board being dealt These functions should be disabled in Setup Preferences when they are not in use 4 6 Dealing Errors The Dealer4 machine is designed to provide trouble free dealing but in some cases errors can occur The errors happened due to the cards damaged cards operator faults board not inserted correctly top cover removed or problems with machine itself like gates errors When an error occurs the following screen appears and a sound will be played Card Recognize Error Error Code 25 Continue Cancel Each error has description and an error code Some errors allow dealing to continue but for some it is not possible and it will be necessary to re deal the board For full Errors descriptions refer to Appendix B Apart from dealing errors the following message may appear r x Dealing Error e Lost Communication with Dealer4 Dealing Aborted This means that the computer lost contact with the machine and it is not possible to continue dealing There are many issues that can cause this error They include computer running too slow too many application running during dealing problems with USB connection or other faults with computer or machine If this error happens frequently please refer to nearest service centre for future advice 4 7 Board number checking One of the important advantages of the Dealer4 machi
65. sical connection is OK please disconnect the cable for couple of seconds and connect it back again the click OK To prevent damage to the USB connectors it is recommend to disconnect the USB cable on the computer side Second problem which may occur is Cannot communicate with Dealer4 Please check if power is connected to the machine and try again Typically this happens when the power adaptor is not connected to the machine is connected to the mains outlet Check these connections and try to enter the Deal function again Please note that it is not possible to enter the Deal function without the machine connected to the computer 4 2 Deal function description If communication with the machine is established the following window will be opened Dealing Boards File Name hands Aulpll23 pbn Dealer Status Idle Number of copies 1 Show boards Small Dealing time T Copy Standard Large Jumbo Card Index National Settings Standard AKQJ C French ARDV C French 1RDV German AKDB Dutch Danish EKDB Swedish EKDKn Card Type Standard Next Deal E i Last Eit Card Font iv Automatically start dealing when a board is inserted Check Board Number Bold Normal First 1 Last Board 32 Dealing 1 10 32 Fine The dealing window is opened in blind mode
66. t parameters values from the machine 9 5 Downloading New Firmware Firmware is the software installed inside the machine and controls recognition and dealing processes and all other operations Firmware is frequently updated to eliminated bugs provide new functionality and to recognize new types of cards It is important to pay attention to the Dealer4 website and check for new firmware updates However if the user has no problems with machine operation it is ok to stay with the current installed firmware Instructions on how to update Firmware Update Instruction 1v3 pdf are available on the Dealer4 website at http www dealer4 com Firmware htm 9 6 Create Service File A Service File is a text file which consists of all the information from the Maintenance screen and other parameters of the machine It should be generated and send to the service centre every time there is a problem that requires service center involvement When created a Service File is saved in 4 Data directory and has the following file name Service file 5555 yyyy mm dd where 5555 is serial number of the machine yyyy mm dd current date and nnn number of service files created on this computer To create a Service File put any card into the Feeder if there is a problem with recognition of a particular card it is recommended to put this card into the Feeder and click on Create Service File button Following prompt will appear
67. that will be the same as for a Card Recognition Error If a non genuine Duplicate Card Error occur infrequently just re deal the deck again If it happens more often the action should be similar as for a Card Recognition Error first check if machine is clean then create a Service File and send to a Service Centre In some cases it will be required to do a Test Deal to investigate a Duplicate Card Error Do so when advised by a Support Technician see 9 7 for instructions Card does not belong to selected National Settings card was recognized correctly but National Settings is not setup correctly for that deck For example this error will occur when French Card was selected where king is marked as R and king marked K from the standard cards was read Be sure that the National Settings are setup correctly depending on the cards being used Please note that sometimes a card which does not belong to the selected National Settings may give a Card Recognition Error instead of Error 61 B4 Card Feeding Errors Error Title Error numbers Possible action Card Feeding Error 55 56 Continue Cancel Machine cannot feed the card There can be several reasons for this Feeder roller is dirty clean it as described Dealer4 Maintenance Adjusting and Cleaning Manual e Feeder width is too narrow or too wide adjust it as described in Dealer4 Maintenance Adjusting and Cleaning Manual e Feeder gap is incorrect check and adjust it
68. the board The stickers have to be put where the Board Switch is located This solution works well but it requires manually attaching stickers to every problem board and the stickers have to be good quality strong bond so they do not peel off by themselves 2 Disable Board Switch by checking this option the Board Switch can be disabled and the machine will not check for the presence of a board any more This is a simple solution but has a LULA couple of downsides because machine will no longer check for boards dealing can be started without a board inside and dealing cannot be started from board insertion 3 Use Board Number Reader as Board Switch when this option is checked the standard Board Switch will be not longer in use but the machine will recognize board presence by reading Board Number Bar Coded stickers This option requires boards with bar coded Board Number stickers but many users have these stickers anyway so it is the best solution 4 Calibrate Board Switch this is the latest solution available for machines with Main Electronic Board version 11 or later machine with serial number 5028 or higher or machines which has Main Electronic Board replaced These machines can adjust the Boards Switch sensitivity which can be tuned to work with boards that are too transparent There are two controls for this option Board Switch Sensitivity allows manual setup of sensitivity higher value means higher sensiti
69. the next one Such dealing is possible when Enable dealing multiple copies of the some board is checked in the Setup Preferences When enabled the copies controls will be visible on the dealing screen They allow to set number of copies of each board in range 1 to 99 and navigate thru copies using Previous Copy and Next Copy buttons Dealing procedure is the same as before but machine will deal desired numbers of copies of the current board before advance to the next one 4 5 Dealing a Subset of the Board Set This function allows the user to deal only some of the boards from the current Board Set It has to be enabled in Setup Preferences When enabled additional controls will be visible on the bottom of the Deal screen They show the first and last board of the Board Set and allow the adjustment of the first and last board to deal When these values are set the navigation button will operate only within these values and dealing will only be possible for these board numbers For example if Board Set has boards from 1 to 32 and subset is set to 9 to16 First button will display board 9 Last button will display board 16 and when board 16 is dealt the message about reaching the last board in the set will appear Dealing from and Dealing to are remembered during the session exiting from Deal Q screen and returning will not change the values however they will be reset when the program is exited Dealing multiple copies and dealing Subsets
70. the problem When Test Deal is clicked the following prompt will appear You have entered Test Deal function Please put a flashed deck in the feeder The deck should be flashed in the following way bottom 2S AS 2H AH 2D AD 2C AC Top Click OK to proceed To perform Test Deal a flushed deck is required It should be the same cards which cause the problem Read Card Error or Duplicate Card Error during a normal deal The deck has to be flushed with a 2 of spades on the bottom then all spades to the ace then hearts 2 A then diamonds and clubs on the top It is recommended to prepare two such decks since when beginning dealing always two decks should be put into the feeder Also it is easier to use Board Insert Dealing Platform for the Test Deal as it easier to take cards out Put these decks back into the feeder and press OK to begin When the Test Deal process is started all cards will be directed to the N pocket so it is easy to take them out and deal again If no errors are encounter during dealing the following message will appear Test Deal was finished sucesfully To find the problem it is required to repeat Test Deal until error occurs Click OK to deal again Cancel Take the cards out from the N pocket the deck will be still flushed as the card order is changed during a Test Deal put the cards back into the feeder to deal again This process should be repeated until a
71. this button creates the Service File which contains all the information from this Maintenance window See chapter 9 6 for more information 9 3 Recognize Section The Recognize section is used to test the card recognition process It consists of Picture Window shows captured or processed picture of the card The card picture has a size of 128 pixel in X horizontal direction and 192 pixels in Y vertical direction X Y shows X and Y coordinates when the cursor is in the Picture Window Brightness shows card picture brightness on the cursor position The brightness can have values from 0 black to 255 white Show button download and display current card picture stored in the machine buffer Error shows results of the last card recognition Card shows card symbol AKQJT98765432 when recognition was successful Suit shows card suit SHDC when recognition was successful Thresholds shows thresholds for last recognition The first number shows threshold for symbol second number shows threshold for suit The threshold is the value that defines if a pixel is considered black or white A pixel with a value below this threshold is considered black and when above is considered white Finding threshold values is the first procedure of the recognition process Capture button captures a card picture and stores it in the machine buffer This picture can be downloaded and displayed in the Picture Window by clicking the Show b
72. to infrared light or the board is inserted incorrectly into the machine In this case the board cannot be used or Board Switch methods 1 3 have to be used Machines with serial number 4052 and lower have mechanical Board Switches implemented and therefore problem with transparent boards is not applicable for these machines 10 Setup Preferences The Setup Preferences window allows the setting of some default values or actions according to individual preferences The Setup Preferences window is shown below Generate New Board Set First Board in Set Reject Odd Shapes Use BigDeal only Check Inner Similarity Use Dealer4 generator only Show both generators Last Board in Set 32 Check History File Use default value for Event Name Use default value for Event Site Use default value for Event Date Use PC date for Event Date Deal and Menu Show Board Number Allocation option for x BRI DGE BRE DUP and ALL formats Enable dealing multiple copy of the same board Enable dealing subset of current Board Set Show Boards and Statistics Lock dealing parameters Analyze C Use Bo Haglund DDS Use Deep Finesse Save Boardset Show warning about Event Information save for BRI DGE DUP ALL and CSV formats Show warning about incomplete boards for PBN and BRE formats Show warning about board numbers save for BRI BRE DGE DUP and ALL forma
73. ts Save makeable contacts analyze if available for PBN format Most settings are self explanatory on the screen When changed new values are automatically remembered on the computer so no save button is required Restore Defaults restores factory settings and Exit returns to the Main Menu A new feature for version 4 70 is the ability to set the default values for Event Name Site and Date fields When checked values entered in the particular fields will be copied during new Board Set generation to the Boards Set Event Name Site and Date fields When Use PC Date for Event Date is checked it is not possible to change the Default Event Date field and the PC date will be used 11 Command line Dealer4 software can be invoked with some special command line parameters This allows the use of a batch file assigning some file types or to call Dealer4 from other software Available commands and parameters are Dealer4 exe C Dealer4_update Dealer4_firmware_3v10 adc Invoke Dealer4 software goes to Maintenance and automatically downloads new firmware Machine has to be connected to the PC Since the ADC file type is registered in PC during software installation opening an ADC file directly automatically performs the above action Dealer4 exe C Dealer4_update Dealer4_display_firmware_2v10 add Invoke Dealer4 software goes to Display Control and automatically downloads new display firmware Machine has to be connected to the P
74. tting allows the printing of card symbols in national characters When Print is clicked the standard Windows File dialogue box will appear which allows the user to choose where the text file will be saved as well as the file name An example of a text file is shown below 2 boards are shown Session Generali Euro Date 1997 06 27 BD 1 S K84 Dlr N H JT2 Vul None D 87 09 76 5 5 02 04 763 D K96 D QJ543 C 85432 C T S J9765 H 985 D AT2 C KQ Makeable contracts D H S NT N FEE S E 4 4 4 BD 2 S AK752 Dlr E H K3 Vul N S D 742 C K76 5 5 963 974 H AJT8 D K653 D AQT8 C AT8542 09 S QJT84 H 0652 D J9 C J3 Makeable contracts C D H 5 NT N 3 5 3 5 3 3 8 3 Print Score Cards The final printing mode allows the printing of Score Cards Travelers When selected the Print screen will appear as follows n Ten Printing National Settings Print Ten as T X Z Standard AKQJ Print Ten as 10 French C French 1RDV Score Cards settings Number of copies f German C Dutch AHVB Print NS Pair Number Danish EKDB Print C Swedish EKDKn m 2 Score Cards per page First NS Pair 1 9 0 Number of lines 16 4 Score Cards per page First Board 1 32 Header Euro Team Champions
75. tup Preferences there is an option to set which analyzer will be used After entering the Analyze command the following screen will appear when Deep Finesse is selected Deep Finesse analysis can take up to a few minutes per board Do you want to continue or when Bo Haglund DDS Bo Haglund DDS analysis usually takes few seconds per board A Do you want to continue Clicking Yes will begin analysis process which can takes up to a few minutes per board for Deep Finesse and up to a few seconds for Bo Haglund DDS depends on the speed of the computer 32 During analysis the progress can be observed Haglund DDS Analyzing board 8 out from 110 32 Analyze command always analyzes all boards in the current Board Set Analysis of a single board is possible from the Edit command Because Deep Finesse takes a long time it is done in the background That means that during analysis most of the functions of the program are accessible For example it is possible to start analyzing and continue dealing without waiting for the analysis to finish If any functions cannot be performed during analysis the following message will appear This function cannot be used while analysis is running Please wait for analysis to finish or cancel it and try again When using Bo Haglund DDS no other function can be used This is usually not a problem as Bo Haglund DDS is fast Analysis results are displayed in the Deal or Edit windo
76. used Currently apart from standard cards for Ace for king Q for queen and J for Jack the following national card variations are supported King Queen Jack Standard A K Q J French1 A R D V French2 1 R D V German A K D B Dutch A H V B Danish E or Es K D B Swedish E K D Kn Card Type additional setting for improving card recognition of cards with frames outside the symbols typical for French or Dutch cards Normally this should be set to Standard but for cards like the ones shown below it works better if this option is set to Cards with outside frame e Card Print should be set to Normal because this parameter is automatically adjusted in the machine firmware However for the cards with very fine print better results can be achieved when this option is set to Fine Similarly for the cards with very thick lines this parameter can be set to Bold This card has very fine club suit symbol This card has bold print set Card Print to set Card Print to Fine Bold The Bold option is required only in very rare situations The need to select the Fine option may happen more frequently Card index National Settings Card Card Font Automatically start dealing when board is inserted and Check Board Number settings are remembered by the software so next time when the Deal function is entered these settings will be the same as they were last ti
77. utton Recognize button captures a card picture and runs the recognition process After processing the card picture can be shown by clicking the Show button The recognize process updates Error Card Suit Thresholds Symbol Size and Suit Size information When the recognition is unsuccessful some of these values may be not updated National selects what types of cards are being used This setting is the same as National setting in the Deal or Read screens Card defines if the card has an outside frame not This setting is the same as the Card Type setting in the Deal or Read screens Card Font defines the type of fonts used for the card symbol This setting is the same as the Card Font setting in the Deal or Read screens Card Index define the size of the card symbol and suit This setting is the same as the Card Index setting in the Deal or Read screens National Card Type Card Font and Card Index setting are remembered by the software so next time the Maintenance Screen is entered these setting will stay unchanged Also changes made in the Maintenance screen will be reflected in the Deal or Read screens and vice versa For more information about these settings please refer to chapter 4 2 e Symbol Size shows sizes X Y of the recently recognized card symbol Suit Size shows sizes X Y of the recently recognized card suit e Draw Start Point shows where the Start Point is located
78. vity Default value is 200 and show be lowered if the board is too transparent It is not easy to find the proper value manually so an automatic process is provided Calibrate Board Switch button automatically finds the best sensitivity value To calibrate the Boards Switch insert a board which causes problems The Board has to be fully inserted Then click on the Calibrate Board Switch button The machine will try all possible settings for the Board Switch Sensitivity and find the best value Check 117 Cancel After completion of the calibration process there are three possibilities There was no problem detecting this board Board Switch Sensitivity value 200 is recommended Do you want to update it This message means that the current board is OK and the Board Switch will operate correctly at the standard sensitivity The Board Switch Sensitivity value of 62 is recommended Do you want to update it This message indicates a new sensitivity value was found and is recommended for the currently inserted board Click Yes to update the sensitivity value in the machine It is recommended to repeat this calibration a few times using different boards which are too transparent for the standard sensitivity and choose the lowest value The Board is too transparent or incorrectly fitted Board Switch calibration failed This message indicates the currently inserted board is too transparent
79. ws They can be also be printed in hand records or saved with the Board Set PBN format only Both analyzers are a Double Dummy type That means that analyzer sees all hands and A counts the numbers of tricks based on that So some contracts will be not possible to do in the real life like for example catching a singleton king out of finesse 33 7 2 Possible errors during analysis If any board is incomplete the following error will be displayed Please be sure that all boards are completed before starting the analyzer If any of the following or similar errors appear that means that installation of the Dealer4 is corrupted Please reinstall Dealer4 and try running the analyzer again f Error 53 File not found C Program Files x86 Dealer4 dfl exe Please reinstall Dealer4 software and try again 34 8 Print command The print command allows printing of the current Board Set as well as Score Cards When clicked three submenu options appear Print Hand Records to printer Print Hand Records to the text file Print Score Cards 8 1 Print Hands Record to printer In this mode the current Board Set will be printed to the printer The print window will have following options available n forms i i Hs Printing _ Statistics Printing National Settings Print Ten as T X Z Do not print Statistics Standard AKQJ Print Statistics before first boa

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