If you play at online-casinos for real money a couple of annoying things will happen now and then. Spam-messages will popup announcing tournaments, confirmation-popups will ask if you really want to leave or request other input. Third-party-software like anti-viruses might unexpectedly start running and open windows that overlap your tables

Of course you could create several external scripts, a complete hopper or even a multi-site hopper-framework to handle everything, you also could turn your anti-virus off like recommended in other forums (we don’t recommend to do so). Thank god OpenHoldem already contains some tools that handle many hopper-tasks automatically or make it easy to deal with them with small effort, including the annoying popup windows.

Some casinos paint messages, mainly tournament-announcements, to the table. These messages are from a technical point of view no separate windows and therefore can’t be handled by traditional popup-blockers. OpenHoldem tablemaps however support some anti-spam-buttons, that get clicked as soon as they get identified. These so-called i86X-buttons (i860..i869) require a clickable region and a button-state, but contrary to autoplayer-buttons no button-label, because the sole meaning of this buttons is “click it away”.

Regular popups can be handled easily by OpenHoldems built-in popup-blocker. It will kill or minimize any visible window that is neither a connected poker-table nor an OpenHoldem window.

Sometimes you might want a popup to stay alive, e.g because you have to enter some data, like the amount of dollars you want to take to the table. In this case you can create a very minimalistic tablemap:

.osdb2
// OpenScrape 11.1.0
// 2017-01-28 18:47:19 
// 32 bits per pixel
// 
// sizes 
//
z$clientsizemax    373  176 
z$clientsizemin    373  176 
z$targetsize       373  176
// 
// strings 
//
s$ispopup                   1 
s$titletext                 Buyin 

• just clientsizemin/max and targetsize plus a titletext as usual for connection

• a symbol “ispopup” that disables the tablemap-completeness-checker and table-positioning. The popup will then stay at its ciurrent location and you can easily handle it, for example with a little script.

The same method is required to keep the lobby open if you use the built-in popup-blocker. In this case you should create a tablemap-symbol

s$islobby                   1

Poker-lobbies receive special treatment. The table-positioner moves them to top-left of the screen (0, 0), where absolute screen-coordinates equal relative window-coordinates. This makes hoppers more robust in case a poker-table pops up and takes away the window-focus.

In some cases handling the popup might require very little work like clicking a confirmation-button. In this case the minimalistic popup-tablemap can be extended by an i86x-region.like the spam-handling example above. As soon as the button-state becomes true OpenHoldem will click the corresponding region.

r$i860button         272 144 347 159        0    0 N 
r$i860state          300 150 300 150   f0f0f0    0 C