Saving and Loading Deals
At any time during analysis of a deal or partial deal, you can save it to a file and re-examine it later. The option Save Deal under the File Menu, will save the current deal from its initial position. The option Save Position will save the current position on the screen. Positions are saved with the history of how the position was reached. So when you load a saved position, you may always back up through earlier tricks if you want.
You may save deals to any file. By default, they are saved to the file Sample Deals.txt in the deal archives folder which is included in the distribution. If the file to which you are saving already exists, the new deal or position is appended to the end. The format of saved deals is human-readable. Just open a deal file in a text editor to look through it. The format is described within Sample Deals.txt itself. Each deal or position in the file is given an identifying number starting at #1. When saving to existing files (i.e. appending), the identifying number of the new deal or position is set to one greater than the previous deal.
To load a deal or position from a file, choose Load Deal From File from the File Menu. You specify the filename and deal number in the dialog box. If you don't specify a deal number, then the last (most recently saved) deal from the file is selected. A commentary box displaying information about the deal appears in the middle of the screen. You can navigate to different hands within the same file by clicking the First, Next, or Last buttons. Sample Deals.txt is shipped with a handful of interesting deals you might want to take a crack at, then see what Deep Finesse thinks about them.