Balance movement wizard (Professional version)
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When you select the [balance movement] option from the movement properties [tools] menu this screen is shown:
balance
The key item to change is the "Number of switches". The Jeanie will search for that number of switches, and only that number, using the "balance type" you have chosen. The Jeanie searches all permutations of the requirements you have specified and in many cases that number can be very high. Each situation is reassessed for bias. The type of balance you wish to perform can be one of four:
Rounds for all tables
Only whole rounds of the movement will be switched and the number of rounds switched will be equal to the "number of switches".
Tables for all rounds
Only whole tables of the movement will be switched and the number of tables switched will be equal to the "number of switches".
All tables in all rounds
Only single instances of tables will be switched. The number of tables switched will be equal to the "number of switches". This option is very impractical as the number of permutations of this is extremely high even for low numbers of tables.
Barometer tables
This is the same as "tables for all rounds" except the algorithm is different and it is at least ten times faster. The movement must be a endless Howell with all boards shared across all tables on each round.

The "stop on change" option when ticked means Jeanie will stop the search whenever the search bias improves over the previous best value found. Even so, when the search is started by clicking the [Go] button you may stop at any time by clicking the [Stop] button (which is the same as the [Go] button only the caption changes after it is started).

Once the search finishes, click close and the properties screen will be updated to reflect the last best balance situation found. At this point if you are satisfied with the results [Save] the movement to retain the changes. If the movement is not saved then the changes will lost.

These searches use multi-threaded logic. Jeanie creates as many threads as defined in the system defaults "maximum number of threads in balancing". Very powerful, multi-processor machines are essential for producing any meaningful results.