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Very often when discussing certain shots or the layout of the table, we find it difficult to show a precise mental picture with words. After hearing enough of things like "well it's a litte bit above 2nd diamond to the right where they are abourt 2 inches apart and cue ball is in front of the...", you may find this program, a little online pooltable with the hope that people can use it to show their ideas better.
 

How to use the table:

Basic Idea

In this program you can move the balls around to desired position by clicking on an item and drag it around. After done, click on copy button at lower right corner. It will gather all the objects' position, encode them in a small string and then store that string into your computer's clipboard.


If you open a text editor or email program and perform a regular computer "paste" function, the string copied earlier will show up, it looks like this:

START( %AI1Z8%DC9L7%HC9[1%PC9K4%QB0B0%f7%g6 )END

Let's say you have just send this string to friends via email. By copying and pasting back the code to the program on their computers, your friend will then be able visualize your idea remotely.

 

Tutorial A, we have a nine ball rack here

1, open the 9 ball table

2, use a standard computer copy function to copy below, highlight the following text string, it is okay to copy the word START or END, the program has a built-in filter to edit them out

START( %AN7O5%BL7P8%CJ5O4%DL7N1%EM7P1%FK6P1%GK6N8%HM7N8%IL7O4%Pg6Q6 )END


3, quit the brower, restart the program and load the page again, click on the paste button at lower right corner.
it will ask you "do you want to provide the content of the clipboards to this movie?"

(The question asked is for Internet security issues if you're on line, this does no harm to you or your computer. Sometimes the computer ask the same question twice, simply click on Ok should it occur)

4, click on okay and it will paste what you copied earlier into the program.

 

4. Greyscale option for better printing

So far you can't print the table layout directly from the browser. The simplest way to print is by doing a sceen capture or print screen and print it from a paint program like MS Paint.
 

Macromedia website if you need the "Shockwave" player.

You can find the latest shockwave plug in from:
www.macromedia.com