Poker Shortcuts: Misc Tab
Auto-Click the Time Button xx seconds after the betting box appears (PS only) or the lower right corner of the Raise button appears (FT,PS)
NOTE: The Time Button features do not currently work on Cascaded Full Tilt Tables
This feature is only needed if you are cascading your Poker Stars tables. If you are using tiled tables, you can use the next feature discussed below. But it doesn't hurt to leave this feature enabled too.
If you check this checkbox, then when the betting box appears on a Poker Stars table, the software will wait xx number of seconds and then click the Time Button. A reasonable value is 10 seconds (a smaller value may be needed on tables that give you less time to act). The software will also click the Time button if the lower right hand corner of the Raise button or the Call button is visible.
This feature is needed for situations where you are playing with cascaded tables, and the software can not "see" the time buttons that are covered (by other tables). If you are busy making a decision on one table you could be at risk for timing out on another table. This feature will click the time button for you IF the betting box (PS) or Raise button is present on the table.
There are some cases where the betting box is NOT present on the table. This can happen if someone has gone all in before you, and your options are to fold or call. The betting box is not present in this situation. If this table is not visible to the software so the software can see the Time button, you run the risk of timing out on this table.
However, there is one other thing you can do if you want to prevent timing out in these somewhat rare situations. If the betting box is not present, the Call button will be visible in the lower right hand corner of the Poker Stars table (or the center of the FT table). If you cascade all of your Poker Stars tables such that the lower right hand corner of this Bet/Raise/Call button is visible on each table (should the call button appear), then Shortcuts will be able to see the presence of this Call button, and then click the Time button for you after x seconds has occurred.
On Full Tilt, this feature is useful when the Bet/Raise button is visible with cascaded tables. In this case the Time button will be clicked for you after the specified time. When someone has gone all in before your, the Call button is visible in the middle position. This situation is more difficult to handle, and your tables will need to be cascaded such that the middle Call button is also visible (in order for the software to know to click the Time button).
If you cascade your tables from bottom left toward the top right of your monitor, that will leave the bottom right hand corner of each table exposed. See the following example of how to cascade your tables to give you some extra protection from timing out.
Auto-Click the Time Button xx seconds after it appears (FT,PS)
If you check this checkbox, then when the time button appears on a table, the software will wait xx number of seconds and then click the Time Button. A reasonable value is 5 seconds.
This feature requires that the software be able to "see" the Time button on each table. Therefore this feature will not work for tables that are stacked or cascaded (except when the table is on top of others). To compensate for this, see the feature described above to handle cascaded tables.
Minimize FT Shortcuts at startup
If this feature is enabled, then Shortcuts will be minimized to your Window's task bar when Shortcuts is started.
Use Mouse Movement method to click buttons on Full Tilt
Normally this checkbox should be checked. However, if you can see the mouse moving to various buttons when Shortcuts is clicking them on Full Tilt Poker tables, try unchecking this checkbox. Unchecking this will use a different method to click buttons on the FT tables (which may have the side effect of occasionally not always successfully clicking the button). If you are not seeing this mouse movement, then I recommend that you leave this checkbox checked.
Enable Joystick Number:
If you want to use a Joystick with Shortcuts, set this value to 1 (in some rare situations you may need to use a different number depending on your type of joystick. Set this value to 0 if you are not using a joystick.
If you enable this feature you can use the buttons, analog controls and the POV control (D-Pad) with shortcuts. You can use the following hotkey codes in any of Shortcuts boxes and then use the joystick instead of mouse buttons or keys on the keyboard.
Buttons:
Various buttons on the joystick are numbered Joy1 through Joy32. You can use the "Show Joystick values" below to determine which buttons correspond to which joystick value.
Analog controls:
Some joysticks have 1 or more analog controls. Three analog controls (designated by XY, ZR, and UV) are supported. The following values are supported in Shortcuts (the numbers represent angles from 0-270). Only 4 positions are recognized by Shortcuts.
JoyXY0 JoyXY90 JoyXY180 JoyXY270
JoyZR0 JoyZR90 JoyZR180 JoyZR270
JoyUV0 JoyUV90 JoyUV180 JoyUV270
POV (D-Pad) control:
Most joysticks have an 8 position digital control. The values that are supported are:
JoyPOV0 JoyPOV45 JoyPOV90 JoyPOV135 JoyPOV180 JoyPOV225 JoyPOV270 JoyPOV315
Show Joystick values here:
If you check this checkbox, then joystick values are displayed in the box as you press joystick buttons and controls. This allows you to determine what the joystick code value is for various buttons and controls on your joystick. Be sure to enter 1 as you Joystick number in the dropdown box as described above. Then as you push buttons and controls on your joystick, the values will be displayed. Uncheck this feature when you are done, as it uses additional cpu time when it is enabled (and it will slow down the operation of Shortcuts if left enabled).
List of keys/buttons that will temporarily disable many features
Note: The keys and buttons should be listed separated by commas, with no spaces anywhere. For a list of keys and buttons, see the key codes page.
Note: Make changes to this section carefully, as it has a significant effect on the operation of the software.
The list in this box define keys and buttons that when pressed will disable key features in Shortcuts. For example, if "Shift" is in this box, then anytime the Shift key is held down, then Shortcuts will not jump to the next table with pending action. This is an easy way to prevent Shortcuts changing focus away from the current table (or moving tables).
If you put LButton in this box, then anytime the mouse left button is held down, then many features of Shortcuts will be disabled. This is handy when you want to manually move a table by dragging it. While the left mouse button is held down, Shortcuts will disable features, so that Shortcuts does not interfere with you moving the table.
Let's say that you have 10 tables open and action is happening pretty fast. You want to check the "Pre-action Fold" checkbox on a table that your mouse is on. If you press the shift key, then even if action becomes pending on another table, Shortcuts will not move the mouse to the other table. Holding shift gives you time to check that checkbox without interference.
Furthermore, let's say that you define the Shift-F key to toggle the "Pre-action Fold" checkbox (this is defined on the Actions1 tab). You can press the Shift key, and then the F key to toggle this checkbox. Since the Shift key will disable Shortcuts, you can take your time in getting the F key pressed, while you are thinking about your decision on this table.
As another example, let's say you are using the Deal Me Mode features (defined on the Deal Me tab). You now want to sit out on a particular table when the big blind comes around to you. Sometimes it's hard to get the key pressed to change the Deal Me mode fast enough (because Shortcuts is always jumping you to the next table with pending action). But if you hold down the Alt key, you can take your time in pressing the "o" key twice (that is, if Alt-o is the key you have defined to change Deal Me mode), and not have to worry Shortcuts changing tables on you while you get these keys pressed.
Bottom line... put some modifier keys in this box (like Shift, Alt, etc.), and use these modifier keys when you define hotkeys in other parts of the software. That way you can hold down the modifier key and take your time to get the other key pressed (without Shortcuts performing some interfering action).
Select Process Priority for Shortcuts
Normally this value should not be changed.
This is a Windows setting that changes the priority that is given to Shortcuts when it is running. Setting it to "High" will give Shortcuts a higher priority over other software on your computer and allow it to do it's tasks more quickly. Microsoft Windows sets programs to "Normal" process priority by default. If you set this to "NoChange" then the process priority will not be changed from it's current value. Initially, we recommend that you set this to "High", unless you are instructed to change it by someone at Windy Hill Technology LLC.
Select Process Priority for Full Tilt
Normally this value should not be changed.
This is a Windows setting that changes the priority that is given to the Full Tilt Client software when it is running. Setting it to "High" will give the Full Tilt client a higher priority over other software on your computer and allow it to do it's tasks more quickly. Microsoft Windows sets programs to "Normal" process priority by default. If you set this to "NoChange" then the process priority will not be changed from it's current value. Initially, we recommend that you set this to "High", unless you are instructed to change it by someone at Windy Hill Technology LLC.
Select Process Priority for Poker Stars
Normally this value should not be changed.
This is a Windows setting that changes the priority that is given to the Poker Stars Client software when it is running. Setting it to "High" will give the Poker Stars client a higher priority over other software on your computer and allow it to do it's tasks more quickly. Microsoft Windows sets programs to "Normal" process priority by default. If you set this to "NoChange" then the process priority will not be changed from it's current value. Initially, we recommend that you set this to "Normal", and you could change it to "High" if you see that Poker Stars is becoming sluggish in it's response times.