Nice little Wei table tip. Any others?

christopheradam

christopheradam

Christopher Adams
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I found a pretty good Wei table tip for people that use it quite a bit.
I am not sure how widely known this is but I will post it anyway since I find it very helpful.

You probably know you can clear the Wei table by making an empty table and then just copying that and pasting it into the wei table. Or that you can just copy and paste in the following : Start()End
But did you know you can copy and paste anything and it will clear the table?

Try this. Open the wei table. Copy the Web address of the Wei table that is in the address area of the the browser (http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/~wei/pool/pooltable2.html ) Whatever is in the address bar at the top of your browser window.
Paste it into the wei table and the table will be clear with all balls lined up at the bottom of the table.

If you have any handy Wei table tips, feel free to post em here.
 
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Also just pressing Paste on the wei table will clear it. (Without first copying anything...)
 
Here's one...

To easily show the diagrams to my newsletter subscribers, I simply hit my print screen key on my keyboard, fire up photoshop, create a new image, paste the clipboard contents (Print Screen key grabs a screenshot and puts it into your clipboard)

I then crop out the rest of the browser window and desktop grpahics and I'm left with a pool table and a cue-ball with tip position. I also remove the left over arrows, copy and paste button graphics and the additional balls not used.

Here's a sample:
spotshotdrill2.jpg


Richard.
 
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Also, don't drag balls into the pockets to hide them. It makes the code longer.

If you want to just show the table image as a jpeg, or to edit with text or other art, hold down Shift Key and press Prnt Scrn button on your keyboard.

The open a simple editor like Paintbrush and paste the image. Cut out the part you want, add text, arrows whatever, then save as a jpeg, ready to post on the forum as an attachement.
 
poolplayingtips said:
Here's one...

To easily show the diagrams to my newsletter subscribers, I simply hit my print screen key on my keyboard, fire up photoshop, create a new image, paste the clipboard contents (Print Screen key grabs a screenshot and puts it into your clipboard)

I then crop out the rest of the browser window and desktop grpahics and I'm left with a pool table and a cue-ball with tip position. I also remove the left over arrows, copy and paste button graphics and the additional balls not used.

Richard.
Click to expand...

God damn! You beat me by a minute to write the same thing! (stomps floor) :mad:
 
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Billy_Bob said:
Also just pressing Paste on the wei table will clear it. (Without first copying anything...)
Click to expand...

Not sure if that is actually true. I downloaded a clipboard clearer:
http://www.moonsoftware.com/getfile.asp?clipclear
Cleared my clipboard, then went to paste on the wei table. Nothing happened. Nothing cleared, the 8ball rack just stayed there. What probably happens when you just click on paste, there is something in your clipboard that is a string. For example: you copied a word in your email and it stayed in your clipboard
You could have a old string lingering on your clipboard from a wei table paste a while back. So copying a random string to clear could be useful. This clip board clearer on the above link is actually pretty cool and could possibly be useful for the wei table. Sometimes I work on a wei table diagram and sometimes accidentally hit paste instead of copy. Really gets me mad sometimes. This clipboard clearer/viewer above and similair programs like it may address that problem.
What I do now is just go very slowly when I hit copy on the wei table. And make sure I am not hitting paste and wiping out my newly made wei table diagram.
 
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I really like this guys site. http://www.omniscium.com/pbsa/AddShot.asp

Uses the weitable and hooks in a database to save shots. I have been trying to figure out how to create a standalone (non-web) version that would include the database. It is much faster than finding the "string" in a file and pasting it into the table every time.

Just click on the "favorite one packet bank shot" and viola, there it is.
 
It works for me. If pressing paste doesn't clear the table, then you have something in your "clipboard". Your clipboard must be clear.

Edit:
It works on my Win98 PC, but not on my WinXP PC.
 
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