OS/2 Shareware BBS: OtherApp/OtherApp.zip/sportm29.zip/sport.hlp

OS/2 Help File | 1997-07-10 | 118KB | 705 lines

ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 1. Introduction ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

This Introduction should give you - the user - an overview how to use this
program. The main-aspect of Sport Manager 2.96 for OS/2 Warp is to be a easy to
use programm, which makes it possible, to come fast to the needed results. This
is the Shareware-Version, it is only restricted in one point, for Registration
(please comment and register) and for the License  have a look at these links
(click please).

The Program Sport Manager can do a good job for you, because to do the
calculations by hand for a spreadsheet table is a lot of labor and very
time-intensive, and moreover it is often full of errors. In this program all
rules for a correct spreadsheet table are inserted.

User of this results to spreadsheet-tables Manager are all people who have to
do with Sport-results and bring them in an accurate spreadsheet-form and after
this want to print this table. Even who wants to have the newest
sport-spreadsheet of his favorite team or league calculated before any sport-tv
show or newspaper, can quickly reach his goal with this program. Moreover for
many sport-journalists, sport-students, for Competitions and for your
club-newspaper or the club-spreadsheet, it is usefull to have this easy to use
program, which solves all this problems.

This program has not to many functions, so you can work consequently with the
most important functions.

Internet-Homepage:  http: //www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Field/7294/indexe.html

Sport Manager:     http: //www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Field/7294/sporte.html


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 2. Basics ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

 Basics

To use this program it isn't neccessary to know much about this stuff.

 A little practice with a mice and the use of the operating system OS/2 (try
the tutorial) are enough.

Hardware requirements are a normal standard PC, running OS/2 Warp. And of cause
OS/2 Warp itself. A Standard-Printer is necessary to print the tables, which
can be configured in the program himself.

A highlightened sentence: practice makes the master


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 2.1. Installation ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

The Installation is rather easy and without problems:

Start easily the program "install ", you have to do in order to install,
copying by hand is useless! This program does everything for you and copies and
installs it complete and creates an Icon and an folder. The only thing that has
to be given is the correct path. The Installationprogram copies alle needed
files and DLLs. It will create no settings in the ini-files of OS/2 and
everything else stays untouched!

Deinstallation:

Like said above, everything will be copied in the given programdirectory.
Therefore it is to do the following for Deinstallation:

- deleting program-Icon and folder
- deleting program and path
- deleting OS/2 \DLL the file "cable.dll"
- deleting the file RLZRUN20.RTS


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 3. History and Future of this program ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

History - How does it start?

The idea for this program I had a long time ago. But when I wrote this program
I worked under DOS, and after migrating to Windows it has to be written new
with Visual Basic (Booh). Cause of this migrations the program never got into a
good shape.

 Even with OS/2 Sport Manager was one project of many, which lay on my harddisk
and was used by myself, but it lacks the last bit of beauty to present it to
the public. Then I gave this piece of software a new lookover and to more
friends and to the good respondance I decided to promote this program to the
public opinion.

 The program isn't complete and will never be, cause there's always something
to better. I have more plans with it and will build it bigger and more useful.
Therefore I published it with Version 2.2 as Shareware in German language in
Germany. The first international version was Sport Manager 2.5, but it was
without an english help file.

Future

This program will be further enhanced under OS/2. I hope some day it is
possible to do a complete sports club managing under OS/2. If you interested
please ask for more and register!


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4. Why OS/2? ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

 OS/2

This question has an easy answer:

  OS/2 is a
   - stabile
   - fast
   - secure
   - Multitasking able
   - Multithreading able
   - 32 Bit
   - graphical
   - easy to learn and use
   - good looking
 operating system.

OS/2 also offers the ideal assumptions for a graphical show program, with a big
look and depending on fastness and security.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 5. The Mainwindow ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

The Mainwindow

In the Mainwindow is the menu, the Iconbar, the spreadsheet-window and the
help-/ statebar at the bottom at your's disposal. With these tools you can
control the program.

 The Icons on the Iconbar can be choosen with the left mousebutton, in order to
fulfill the concerning function and with the right mousebutton there can the
meaning of each function be questioned, which will be shown in the statebar.
The Icons symbolize the functions of the menu and offer a quick path to most of
the functions.

The statebar shows function of the Icons and the aktual file. With a click on
this link you can reach a picture  of the Mainwindow.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 6. The Menu ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

File New
File Open
File Close
File Save
File Save As
File Print
File Printer Setup
File Exit

Edit
- Cut
- Copy
- Paste
- Copy Sheet into Clipboard
Options
- (Old) 2-Point Rule
- (New) 3-Point Rule
- Settings
- View
Control
- input
- back
- previous playday
- next playday
Extras
Help
 Help for this program
 Productinformation


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 6.1. File-menu ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

File Menu

Here you can find all funktionality, which is connected to files like file
Open, save or print. Moreover here you can exit the program.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 6.1.1. File New ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

File New

This function is for creating new spreadsheet tables and editing them! For
other types of sports you can create league's with more (up to 20) or less then
18 clubs. The points and goals can be set to 0 or every likely worth.

At first an existing spreadsheet table will be loaded, in order to have many
default values for the most variables. You can decide between an existing file
or an standard-file. With 'Sport Manager 2.9' there are some examples as
sport-result spreadsheet-tables delivered. They or the loaded spreadsheet can
be edited freely and the values can be changed.

 For editing move into the appropriate field (with Mouse or Cursorkeys).
Afterwards type in the wished text or numbers. For german, french or other
special characters press the  'F2'  key on the keyboard before! Also for
numberinput from the numeric keypad with the numbers 0 to 10.

 At last, when you have finished your editing please press the 'OK'  key. With
this the security question will be started. The spreadsheet table can now be
saved with 'Yes' or all editing can be thrown away with 'No' key (nothing will
be changed with the table, nothing will be saved on harddisk). And if you
changed your mind and want to reedit the file press 'Abort' and you can work
further on your table.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 6.1.2. Picture Create New Table ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 6.1.3. File Menu, the other Menu items ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

File Open

With this Menuitem you are able to open a file, which was saved with File Save
or Save As. The settings for this file will also be restored (see also item
'Save').

File Close

This option is for deleting the current table out of memory. New Files can be
created or opened now, but this is also possible without explicit File Close!
The data will not be erased from the harddisk, only in RAM memory!

File Load

With this Menuitem you can merge two table files to one. The loaded file will
be merged onto the current edited one. If you want to hold this new file you
have to save it with Save or Save as.

 File Save    File Save As

This functions are identically, with the difference, that "Save as" questions a
new file name, which shall be given to the new file to save.

File Print

Printersettings

Use this item to print the current table on the selected printer. The printer
can be selected and configured from the printer settings dialogue.

File End

This exits the program.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 6.2. Edit ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

Edit

 With these options Text can be cut off or copied and be used in different
applications, or inserted in another place.

Copy Spreadsheet into Clipboard

With 'Copy Spreadsheet into Clipboard' it is possible to copy the colored table
into clipboard and export it into any program, eg. a Word processor or some
other application. This is done by selecting 'Insert' or german 'Einfugen' in
the target application.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 6.3. Options ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

Old 2-Point Rule

The table will be calculated after with this scheme:

A victory scores 2 Pluspoints and 0 Minuspoints.
A draw  scores 1 Pluspoint  and 1 Minuspoint.
A defeat (loss) scores 0 Pluspoints and 2 Minuspoints.

(English) 3-Points Rule

With this option the table will be calculated with a different scheme:

A victory scores 3 Points.
A deuce  scores 1 Point.
A defeat (lost) scores 0 Points.

Now there are no Minus-points any more, only Plus-points! You can easily toggle
between this options so often you like!

Settings

 With this panel you can set the general settings for this application. If the
option 'Show Assistents' is chosen, you'll get help within the application for
using it more efficient. If the option 'Save settings at end' is chosen, the
settings will be saved by ending this application and the next time you start
everything is set like before. Settings will be saved to the file Sport.ini.
With the item  'Show last Position', you decide whether position in the table
of a previous playday will be shown or not.

'Checking input' By this Option you select to check the input data on
correctness, eg. if number of goals for and against is equal or number of home
games equal to number of away games.  In special cases like the american
icehockey-League NHL, there is a need to insert the data without checking,
because there is no regular basis on rounds of the teams in each league.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 6.4. View ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

 View

In order to adapt the program to your own PC you can change the standard
colours and title line or font on the screen.

For the font it is important to select a proportional font, as the results with
a non-proportional font are lousy (try it, it is rather amusing!). As a default
it is selected the font 'Courier' in size 10. As a Alternative there is only
the font 'Courier New', but you can change the size and the look of the font
with bold, italic and so on.

The colours could be selected from the main colours or you can merge your own
colour by defining the colour out of 16.7 million opportunities! The heading
tells for which region in the table the colour is used.

The number you select with the arrows is used with the regions in the table to
differ the teams.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 6.5. Picture Menu ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

This is a typically picture of the Main-Program:


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 6.6. Control ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

 Go on to result input

 With this menuitem you can switch between table-view and resultentry-view. If
you already inserted results they will be shown now. Press 'OK' when you are
ready inserting results - you are automatically switched back to the table and
it will be refreshed and calculated new.

Wrong Go back to result input, repeat

 If you notice making an error with inserting results you and want to reedit
your input please use this option. Then you'll will be prompted with the
resultentry-view and your input (but only when you have done an input), but the
results are only added again when you press 'OK' after reediting the input.
With 'Cancel' you can completely get rid of your mistake input.

 previous  / next playday

With this arrow buttons you can switch fast between the playdays. With previous
playday you get playday before the current (example: 14 instead of 15) and with
next you will get the next one (example: 16 instead of 15).


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 6.7. Extras ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

Extras

These special functions can be reached here, but only in the full registered
version:

Championship
Tournament
World Championship
Game plan creating

First Half of Season / Second Half of Season and Total Season

To allow a analysis of the games in the first and second half of the season you
can use this functions.

From ... To ... .  week

With the function "From ... To ... .  week" you can calculate a Table, what
normally does not exist. That means the games between these weeks were summed
and calculated newly! This is an interesting opportunity for special analysis!
This is a very special feature of Sport Manager!

The left data should be less to the right! If not it will also be a new table
calculated, but with negative data. This is not a bug! It was intended.

Statistics

With this part you analyze the tables statistically. There are options like
numbers of victories or goals per game and many many more ... Moreover there is
a special graphical analysis option to have a look over the positioning in the
current season.

Bar- and Piechart

Moreover you can make a Barchart or Piechart from the given data. This charts
are calculated by the actual table. (Home /Away games / Total, 2 or 3 Point
Rule ...).


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 6.8. Help ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

Help Help to

Help calls the help-file for Sport Manager with the first page. Help is also
alltimes available with F1!

 Help Helpindex

Helpindex shows the help file with the index at first.

Help Productinformation

Help Productinformation shows Information about the copyright, the name of the
author and the actual versionnumber of the application.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 7. Insert results ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

Insert results

Here you can insert the results. Only numbers are taken. Characters will do
naturally nothing. If a team hasn't played, it should be shown with a minus
symbol "-", so this team will be taken out of score. A symbol of -  in one of
the two fields is enough!

Hint: With the  tabulator-key  you can easily jump from one field to the other.
Begin above and overwrite the preset for each field of 0.

You will always insert the result for goals in the left field and against goals
in the right field!!!

 There will be a control of the results if they are possible! Please insert the
right results and control your input in order to look if the amount of F goals
and A goals in the sum are equal. If this is not correct you will be advised by
a dialogue to do the input again! You can't go on, without a correct input.
Then press 'OK' and the new table will be calculated. Whether the results are
realistic or not, is not important and impossible to prove for the program.

Examples:

Los Angeles Raiders:    7      28
'This is a lost game with 7 for and 28 against goals.

Celtic Boston      88    88
'This is a draw with 88 to 88 goals/points/baskets or whatever you want.

Arsenal London   4    2
'With this input you show a victory of Arsenal London with 4 to 2.

Ajax Amsterdam  -    0
'This is the symbol for a play-free team, the - is only neccessary once in the two fields


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 8. Sort ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

Sorting routine

 It will be used a simple Insortion-Sort. As there are only a few data with up
to 20 teams, it is not neccessary to implement a faster or a more difficult
Sorting algorithm. If you want to know more please send me a mail!

 Sorting algorithm all between O(n) and O(n^2). Even in worst case no problem.
If it takes a long time switching between result-input and the new sorted
spreadsheet not the Sorting algorithm, but the graphic and/or the
graphic-adapter and processor, because there are so many fields to compute. The
sorting itselve longs even in worst-case only a few msec (milli-Seconds) !

Sort criteria

 At first all teams will sorted descending with most points. In the case of
equality the rate of goals will decide and when even this is equal, which team
has more goals. If these are also equal, the teams are on the same place and
the place is a little bit random. The team which was on a higher position will
be stay on a higher position than the other, this last position will decide
which one is higher.  This will only be the case, when really all data are
exactly the same. These are the international and official known rules for
sport tables.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 9. Errors and Bugs ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

Errors (Be careful: Ironic!)

Errors are impossible and never will happen with this application. Are there
accidantly any problems, Errors or even crashes, in any case fundamental the
user is to plead guilty. The program is errorfree and you as the user are
either to silly or unable to use this program, you will make everything wrong
what's possible!

Or not??

There's no bugfree Software, which is a little big greater than "Hello World"
and with today's wide range of Hardware the world for the programmer isn't
easier. Please mail me any comments and bug-reports via mail or e-mail! Also
wishes and annotations and everything else, I'll thank you in advance. With
that input I can develop this application further on and improve it.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10. Author ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

The Author, Thomas Dagen, is 26 years old and studies "Wirtschaftsinformatik"
(business and informatics) at Paderborn University.  You can reach me with the
following addresses:

Thomas Dagen
Benhauser Str. 24
33100 Paderborn
Germany
Tel. and Fax. +49  ((0)5251) 5 90 46

E-mail: [e-mail]
Homepage: http: //www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Field/7294/

or

Thomas Dagen
Friedrich-Ebert-Str. 14
48529 Nordhorn
Germany
Tel. [phone]


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 11. Registration and license ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

Registration - Why register?

The application is published under the Shareware-license, and functional not
limited (only the Extra functions). The fullversion, which brings enhancements
in funcionality, costs only 30 DM (german marks) or 25 US dollar. Included in
this price is an printed handbook. Your one-time payment fee is a lifetime
license to all future versions of Sport Manager. Moreover you ensure by
registration that this application will be further enhanced and developed
further on.

Also, while we listen to any suggestions we receive, your wishes and
suggestions will become reality if you are a registered user, because we pay
close attention to your requests and suggestions! As it was hard work over
three years to build this piece of Software for OS/2 please register!

In order to get this program on floppy disk you have to pay 40 DM or 35 US
dollar. If you are living in Germany or have access to this form of cash
transfer you can transfer the money to my bank account:

B L Z :    472 501 01  at "Sparkasse Paderborn"
Konto-Nr.:  16 11 12 13

Please send me a mail or email, contact me, if you want to register this
program! The Copyright and all rights are registered by Thomas Dagen. For
special licenserights please have a look at the license or ask the author.

License Terms

The program should not  be distributed on any CD or Disk for much money
(greater than 50 DM or 50 US dollar) on a profit base (Shareware or CD-vendor
...). Private swapping of the Shareware-version is legalized. The program may
be published on Internet and Mailboxes for private use.

 As Sport Manager is published as Shareware, there are no possibilities to make
the author responsible for damages or losses in case of use of this
application. The use of this program is on your own risk, and no one will be
forced to use this application. But after many tests and human decision this
program is good enough and will do no harm; but bugfree programs will never
exist.

 Annotation: I think you can use this program without problems, because there
were no big problems or bugs till now.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 12. DCC ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

DCC Dagen Computer Consulting

DCC in Internet:     http: //www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Field/7294/dcc.html

The company DCC Dagen Computer Consulting offers you:

Hardware      DCC PCs with OS/2 or the wished operating system
Software      all known programs and own developments at reasonable prices
Beratung      objective and fundamental consulting with the newest improvements
Service       aftersale care and special services

We offer everything around the electronic data communication/processing and Information Technology.
Projectmanagement - attending of projects of any kind.
Multimediapresentations and programs for OS/2 and Windows with your wishes.
Systemanalysis and Network build up and care.


All this for fair and reasonable conditions and with the best quality.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 13. More programs ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

The following programs for OS/2 are available from DCC:

Game Pack for OS/2, at this time at Beta-stadium with Surprise, Labyrinth,
Mahjongg, Tic-Tac-Toe, Tetris, Hangman and so on...

Mathematics 2D and 3D Engine

A Mathematicprogram with many graphical views and options. Functions can be
plotted as 3D Function or can be viewed in a normal 2D frame.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 14. Games in delay ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

Games in delay

 Games in delay are a big difficile problem and very difficult to solve for
programmers. That is obvious when taking in consideration that after this game
in delay all games afterwards must have this points, too!

To give in games in delay, you had to follow strictly this step-by-step
instructions:

1. Open the file and change to the dialogue for result input.

2. With the blue arrow showing in the left direction (labeled with a minus
symbol [-] ) go to the right week where one or more teams have no score. This
step is enormously important! If not the left arrow is used as last button
everything else will fail and lead to irregular results.

3. Press the button "Inverse". By doing this all teams with no score get blank
and all other teams get a - in the score box, meaning that they have not played
a match.

4. Now insert the score in the blank boxes like normal. If only part of the
teams have played than only insert the score for this teams and fill the other
ones with a - , like normal operation.

5. Now click the button "Game in delay" . After the security checking, which
can be answered with "Yes", if all has done correctly, the results should be
updated till the last week. Everything should be alright now!


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 15. Using philosophy ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

Using philosophy

 The Sport Manager should be easy to use and understand program. First create a
new table, beginning with zero data when starting from scratch or when you have
a given table with the actual data.

Second insert results by changing into the result input dialogue. Now insert
the score of each team in the approbiate box. Repeat this step until you are
the actual standing and repeat each week and collect the results of the sport
teams.

Third step is now after collecting a amount of valuable data doing some
analysis. Select different opportunities to analyze the results like home and
away games or first and second half of the season, table from ... to ... week
or Pie and Bar Charts and other statistics. All this analysis can be shown on
screen or be printed.

Im Gegensatz zu anderen Programmen wird auf eine Erstellung der Begegnungen
verzichtet, was eine ganze Menge Arbeit erspart. Auсerdem wird das Programm
dadurch flexibler und ist nicht nur auf die Fuсball-Bundesliga beschrДnkt.
Allerdings muс bei der Ergebniseingabe jedes Ergebnis zweifach eingegeben
werden, was aber mit Hilfe der Tabulatortaste recht schnell gemacht ist.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 16. History List ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

Sport Manager is supposed to be used with all kind of sports, which are using
results and displaying tables.

Version 2.90 (04.06.97) New Funktions

- Statistics improved
- positioning on chart
- games in delay
- save program coordinates of the program window
- statistics total and per team (last games, highest victory, ...)
- First half of Season / Second Half of Season for all options like home and away games and analysis
- Table from  ... week to  ... week
- number of victories , drew aso. together
- Barchart and Piechart for every home and away games and total
- start at every point in the season possible
- right mouse opens Popupmenu in the table view
- even when the Sport.ini-File is corrupt, or is missing it will be started correct with defaults
- result input boxes completely overworked
- Bug with result input for wrong numbers of home/away games and unequal number of goals
- Bug with helpbuttons, linking to wrong help pages
- Bug, with help file, when file not there anymore

Version 2.60 (28.01.97) New Functions

- new international release with complete help- and install-file in english language
- bug with 20 teams deleted
- more example files and updated
- Help updated completely new
- Browsen in seasonfile-table now in create new table possible

Version 2.50 (16.12.96) New Functions

- first international release as an english language version, before since Version 2.1 only in German
- a little adapted to the new OS/2 Version 4 Merlin
- last worked file will be shown in file - menu after end
- improved Animation at About-dialogue
- some bugs deleted
- files updated
- (Help updated) - not so much!
- current file will be shown in title-bar of program
- Browsen in seasonfile-table now in result-sheet possible

Planned Functions:

- adapt more to OS/2 Version 4 Merlin (Notebooks?),
  lack of knowledge how to do with CA-Realizer a Notebook-Control under OS/2 ???????
- Reaction to minimize and maximize
- more windows open at same time for working on many tasks simutanously
- Extra-Functions
- more functionality
- improve Drag'n Drop
- popup menus with right and middle mouse click