We have designed FlopZoom to have all of its major controls and options right on its display. There are only two preferences, and you won't need to change them often. There are also two rarely used features available in FlopZoom's preferences.

Choose FlopZoom > Preferences... to bring up the Preferences dialog. It has one pane for options and another for special rarely-used commands. Click on the "Options" or "Commands" buttons at the top to switch between the panes.

 
Options
You can choose several options here that will affect FlopZoom's appearance, week interval, and hand odds accuracy.


"Playback text color"
By default, FlopZoom shows each player's names, actions, and hand odds in white and gray on the playback pane. If you would rather see this text in white, you can click the "All white" button. (Note that the odds text will show a tilde ("~") to indicate approximate odds when there are unknown hole cards and the all white text option is chosen.)

"Week start day"
You can choose Sunday or Monday as the first day of the week. This will change the day on which calendar weeks, months, and years start in the statistics and analysis panes.

"Deal count"
You can change the number of simulated deals used to calculate players' odds on each action. 10k gives the fastest results, and 100k gives you more accurate results. On a 2.4GHz Fall 2007 iMac, the 10k option provides instantaneous odds calculations. The 100k deal option results in approximately a 2 second delay when a player folds and the odds for the remaining players are calculated.



 
Commands
Here you'll find two commands that we were sort of trying to hide. They're here in case you have trouble, so they're important. But we hope you'll never need to use them.


"Save Skipped Files"
We've worked hard to make FlopZoom "sock rolid," but occasionally you might find a hand history file that it can't handle. FlopZoom remembers all files it had trouble analyzing, even if it crashed while analyzing a file. It will skip over those problem files on all subsequent launches.

Clicking the Save Skipped Files button will copy the history files FlopZoom had trouble with into a folder on your desktop called "FlopZoom Skipped". We'd really appreciate it if you could send any files in that folder to . It will help us fix the problem so you can add the sessions to your database with future versions of FlopZoom.

"Rebuild Database"
You'll probably never need to use it, but we made the Rebuild Database command available here just in case. If you see odd results in the session pane's stack graph or in the statistics or analysis charts, it's possible that FlopZoom's database has become corrupted. We recommend that you contact before you rebuild your database. It may not be necessary.

Note that future versions of FlopZoom may require you to rebuild the database on first launch. If you install a new version of FlopZoom and it needs to update your database, it will present you with a warning dialog before it performs the rebuild. This gives you the option of waiting until a more convenient time to perform the rebuild, which could take several minutes.