[hrothgar]

I was looking at Ben's latest posting on Misery and was interested to note that BridgeBrowser displays descriptions about the meaning of Alert sequences.

Couple quick questions:

1. Do alert strings get stored in the LIN file along with the rest of the hand records?
2. Does this system incorporate information from FD or "just" written alert strings?

[pigpenz]

you must mean something other than bridge browser? a version of bridgebrowser is available for people who play in homebase clubs. You must mean the FD or Full Discloser editor

[hrothgar]

pigpenz, on Mar 20 2006, 07:37 PM, said:

you must mean something other than bridge browser? a version of bridgebrowser is available for people who play in homebase clubs. You must mean the FD or Full Discloser editor

I'm referring to BridgeBrowser

Ben's post on Misery contains a hand record exported by BridgeBrowser
This hand record (clearly) contains alert descriptions as part of the record.

I'm curious where this information came from

[uday]

We send a feed of hands to BRBR approx monthly. These hands contain everything in myhands (no FD-related info but traditional info is included).

[inquiry]

Hi richard, FD comments/alerts are not shown. As far as table alerts, the last text typed into the alert box is what is left in the record. If you alert 2D as weak 2 in major or... and then later type balanced 20-22. What will show up is Balanced 20-22.

Often the alert is described as "self alert" or "no information available". I think self alert shows up in bridgebrowser when the alert field contains nothing. The other is when someone clicks the bid a couple of times and nothing shows up.

And yes. alert strings are stored in lin files.. just open myhands and take a look, you will find many alerts.