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I've been playing around with the AHK scripts this week since they seem to be all the rage. They are pretty nice. Here's a breakdown of the ones I've used so far and my thoughts on them.
ChipReloader: Worked great the first time I tried it. Hotkey for reloading all active tables is F9. Reloading the active table only is F10. F9 takes a little longer to complete on 8 tables than I'd like, but it's still a nice feature. Sometimes makes a little beep noise when it's finished going through all the tables. About once in every 10 tries it leaves one of the OK dialog boxes up on the screen and you have to clear it out manually. Not a big deal. The second time I ran this script was in conjunction with the StarsPlanner and BetPot scripts. For some reason, the F10 reload stopped working even after reloading all the scripts. Maybe that key was bound to something else in one of the other scripts or something. Will need to investigate.
Keyboard Redirect: Works pretty good. Basically prevents tables from stealing focus away from you when typing in notes windows, IMs, etc. My only complaint is that it turns capital letters into lowercase when that happens. I'm going to try tweaking the script to fix that.
StarsPlanner: Nice script that does a lot. Allows you to save layouts so tables always open up in the same order on your screen. Getting the right table number in the right slot was difficult because any overlap with another slot screwed the placement up. Not a huge deal since it's a one time thing. Minor annoyance appears to be that you can't move the lobby window around your screen when this script is running. You can try dragging it elsewhere but it will just go right back to where it was. Enabling Re-Size and Arrange Tables lets you drag and drop tables into whatever predefined slots you want. Has a "sit out on all tables" check-box. I haven't tried this because I generally wait for the blinds to come around before leaving tables. Enable Keep Lobby is a nifty feature as well. When turned on, the main lobby pops right back up after joining tables. Very handy when you're trying to join multiple tables quickly. You must uncheck this box to be able to minimize the lobby. Enable Automatic Buy In When Seated is pimp. All you have to do is click on an open seat at a table and it buys you in full. This also makes it so you can click the dealer chips on the table, hit the add chips button and it rebuys you in full. You can dismiss open-folds and block popups with this script as well. Sometimes it blocks popups that you might not want blocked however, such as help windows, tournament placement finish dialog boxes, you've been moved to another table notifications, etc.
BetPot: Makes it so you can scroll up or down on the mouse wheel to increase/decrease bet sizes. You can click in the mouse wheel to register a pot sized bet. Adds support for joysticks and keypads. I wasn't terribly impressed with this script on Stars. I guess I'm just used to the slider bar.
StarsUrgentTable: Does what it says, but it was annoying to me. Couldn't get used to the mouse auto-movement and it made me really uncomfortable using it while 8 tabling. The red highlight windows were more of a distraction than a help.
So what scripts do you guys use? Got any highly recommended ones that I failed to mention?
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