GIB Related Software
We are committed to providing an unmatched level of support to our
users. This includes responsiveness to the usual sorts of customer
requests; we try to return telephone calls within a day and email
within an hour.
We are also committed to supporting users who want to do unusual
things with GIB. We will make the source code to our user interface
available to any customer who requests it. We will also make GIB's
bidding database available to any customer who requests it.
The response to our approach here has been exactly what we hoped: Many
of our users have written special-purpose software that connects to
GIB in some useful way. This additional software is typically
free.
- Deal is a
program written by Thomas Andrews that generates deals having a
particular property, like that North has 4-4 in the majors. It
connects to GIB so you can also require that 3NT can be made double
dummy, etc. It doesn't have a fancy user interface, but it's the
most powerful dealing program that we've seen.
- AutoIt is a
program that lets you build scripts that run programs on your behalf.
As one GIB user has pointed out, you can use AutoIt to have GIB play
against itself and save the results for you, so that you can extend
the deal library and replay the deals later. Here's a script that will do it, saving the deals to a file
called aa.pbn (which you might want to rename later).