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Voter Plus - Revision History (In Reverse Order) ------------------------------------------------ Feb 27, 1993 - 1.96 - Recompiled with an expiration date of 05/01/93. No other changes. Feb 05, 1993 - 1.95 - If the caller was voting in a "Survey" style booth, they would not be offered the chance to leave a comment after the final vote. Feb 03, 1993 - 1.94 - Added a message in the "Lite" version if the caller tries to Create, Delete, or Edit a Booth. Feb 01, 1993 - 1.93 - The display of booths that have been RESET by the NewBooth program was not working the way I wanted it to. To get it to function properly required adding 2 more line to VOTER.CNF Lines 5 & 6 should contain the date and time of the last Reset. Simply edit the file and add 00/00/00 & 00:00 to these two lines. Jan 29, 1993 - 1.92 - Put together a limited version of the door that will be referred to as the "Lite" version. It should require approximately 42 K less memory than the standard version. It does NOT include the ability to Create, Edit, or Delete booths, nor does it include the SysOp functions. It is intended to be run after the NewBooth door, where memory may be scarce if the NewBooth door is being run as part of a SHELL door. Found a few minor bugs here and there during this process and they have been fixed in both versions. Jan 28, 1993 - 1.91 - Another attempt to reduce memory requirements. Jan 27, 1993 - 1.90 - Moved some more code into the .OVR file to reduce memory requirements. Jan 24, 1993 - 1.89 - I think I *FINALLY* found the elusive bug that would cause an erroneous number to be saved in the .USR files for the caller's vote. It turns out it would only happen when voting on <N>ew booths, which is why it was so hard to trace. Fixed a "File Write Error" that could occur when exiting the door. Tweaked the DOOR.SYS module in many places. Jan 22, 1993 - 1.88 - Added direct support for using DOOR.SYS as the drop file. Jan 21, 1993 - 1.86 - Fixed a few minor bugs in "Activity" display. Removed logic to create .DSP file in {Start_Save} 1.86 Jan 20, 1993 - 1.85 - Combined the <A>ctivity & <S>tatistics reports. Finished the ser Stats function within the <S>ysOp function. The data for this will be stored in VPLUS.USR and will begin to be compiled with this release. Note: Data will not be compiled for the "SysOp". Changed the colorization of the "Press <Enter> to continue" prompt to match the scheme used elsewhere. Jan 19, 1993 - 1.84 - Added the groundwork for tracking user info. Tweaked a few of the prompts a little. Jan 16, 1993 - 1.82 - Fixed a few date problems in Vote/New & Results/New. Added the Change_Lang function as well as fixing support for Multi-lang capability. Will stick with PkZip 1.10 until such time that 2.xx becomes a bit more stable. Jan 14, 1993 - 1.81 - When manual resetting, last_reset date format was wrong. Added log entry when resetting. Jan 12, 1993 - 1.80 - Added check for minimum length of booth Description and Question when creating a new booth. Jan 12, 1993 - 1.79 - Added the ability to change the additional booth infomation via the <E>dit function. Jan 10, 1993 - 1.78 - The ersonal Stats function has been renamed to <Y>our Statistics. Added the age Length function. This release and all future releases will be compressed using PKZip v.2.04c Jan 09, 1993 - 1.77 - Added some additional information to the <A>ctivity command under the <S>ysOp menu. If a caller has a security level equal to or greater than the value entered in line 6 of the VOTER.CNF file, they will be allowed access to all SysOp functions while in the door. Added the missing "Press Enter..." prompt after the display of the Activity Report. Jan 05, 1993 - 1.76 - If a caller chose to add their own answer, an erroneous answer number would be written to the .USR file. Jan 05, 1993 - 1.75 - Added the <A>ctivity function to the <S>ysOp menu. Also added the Last Date Voted display to the <S>tats display within the <S>ysOp menu. Moved several procedures to VOTERP.TPU Jan 03, 1993 - 1.74 - When a caller changed his/her vote, the counts were not being properly handled at all times. Added logic to prevent a caller from choosing the same answer that they chose previously. Added a check for the /WORK directory upon initializing the door. If not found, the door will attemp to create it. If unable to create it, a message will be displayed to the caller, and an error message will be written to the CALLERx log file. Jan 02, 1993 - 1.73 - With the year rolling over, a few minor bugs popped up in the <N>ew functions of the <V>ote and <R>esult selections. Moved several procedures into the VOTERP TPU to reduce the code segment size. Dec 29, 1992 - 1.72 - Somewhere along the line I introduced a nasty @!#/* bug that would cause the incorrect answer to be recorded in the *.USR file. The values in the .VTR files are correct, the only time the erroneous ones will come into play is when a caller uses the function, or when the SysOp uses the <S> function. Dec 28, 1992 - 1.71 - Added protection to keep the door from being run while VPlusMnt is running. Added logic so the name "VOTER" cannot be used as a booth name. Dec 26, 1992 - 1.70 - Added the groundwork for the Auto-Delete function. You MUST add a numeric value to VOTER.CNF at line 13. If the creator of a booth has an equal or greater security level than that value, they will be asked if the booth should be automatically deleted after X number of days. This feature will be part of VPlusMnt. (Not yet released) Changed the ersonal Stats function to eliminate some redundant display of information. Dec 22, 1992 - 1.69 - When voting, the (N)ew function was broken. Still a few glitchs in counting total votes. Hopefully this version will squash them all. Dec 20, 1992 - 1.68 - When back to an earlier library. The last couple seem to want to find a CONFINFO file for some reason. There was a problem with properly recognizing the SysOp. The environment variable VPLUS was not being handled properly. There was a bug in the logic that handles adding a New Answer to a booth. Dec 14, 1992 - 1.66 - Moved a large part of the code into VOTER.OVR This file must be in the same dir as VOTER.EXE Dec 02, 1992 - 1.65 - Changed VOTER.CNF back to text format. See included file for an example. This should fix the door until I get a chance to figure out what's going on with the random access file. Nov 30, 1992 - 1.63 - There were several problems with the <V>ote routines. If the booth was the SURVEY type, the caller would be permitted to chose the same answer more than once. When <V>oting on either <A>ll or <N>ew booths, the caller would be dumped out of the booth after voting on a SURVEY type booth, rather than being permitted to choose another answer. If a caller did vote on a <N>ew booth, they would be sent back to the Main Menu, rather than going on to the next booth. Nov 28, 1992 - 1.61 - If the Force_Vote option was set to TRUE, a caller would not be allowed to view the results of a booth regardless of whether they had voted or not. Nov 26, 1992 - 1.60 - 1.56 was broken in many places. All of the options were not being saved after a booth was edited via the door. The .USR files are now random access files. Nov 22, 1992 - 1.56 - Everyone was given SysOp status. Nov 15, 1992 - 1.55 - Changed over to the new .CNF file format. Oct 28, 1992 - 1.52 - Fixed a nasty little bug that would not increment the Total_votes after casting a vote. Oct 23, 1992 - 1.50 - Fixed the ANSI toggle. It was changing the caller's status if they did NOT use <A>. Oct 20, 1992 - 1.49 - Added prompt as to whether to make a booth an Auto-Reset booth when creating a new booth. This will only be asked if the caller has a sec. level equal or greater than the level as listed in VOTER.CNF. Oct 19, 1992 - 1.48 - If the caller toggled the ANSI mode while in the door, that mode would follow them back to the BBS. Added optional CLOSE file. Oct 18, 1992 - 1.47 - Changed all internal testing to utilize the boolean values contained in the new .VTR format. Made a few aestestic changes to the ersonal Stats. Oct 12, 1992 - 1.45 - Added error trapping when reading the .VTR files. Changed the flow of the opening banner and screen displays. Eliminated the need to hit <Enter> after the banner display. Changed the way expert status is handled in the door (I know, again...). This will be sysop configurable as to whether the callers expert status on the BBS should follow them into the door. Changed the format of the .VTR files again. You need to run UPDATE4.EXE to update the files from the 1.38 format. This was required to support several new features that will be implemented in an upcoming release. Running UPDATE4.EXE will initialize the new fields with default values which you may then edit manually with 'VPlusEdit' which I will be releasing very soon. These fields will also be utilized by an upcoming release of the program 'NewBooth'. All security level entries in the VOTER.CNF file now have a range of 0-65536 Oct 11, 1992 - 1.42 - Added check for if a caller is voting on a booth before trying to delete it. Added /WORK dir. Changed function so only one screen is disp. Oct 5, 1992 - 1.40 - The creator's name was not being handled correctly when viewing results. Sep 29, 1992 - 1.39 - Fixed a problem where garbage would be displayed for booth numbers between any actual booths and booth #5. This was only a problem in the UNREGISTERED version. Sep 29, 1992 - 1.38 - This is an interim public release only. If you are running a version PRIOR to 1.30, you must run as UPDATE.EXE program as described below, followed by UPDATE2.EXE as described below also. If you are running 1.30, run UPDATE2.EXE *ONLY*! The creator's name was not being handled correctly when viewing results. Sep 25, 1992 - 1.37 - Added the ersonal Stats function. This should be self-explanatory. Changed the .KEY file format to slow the hackers down a little. Haven't decided exactly how I am going to handle re-issuing .KEY files as yet. Sep 24, 1992 - 1.35 - *** You MUST run the supplied UPDATE2.EXE program *** *** PRIOR to upgrading to this version !! Simply *** *** copy the UPDATE2.EXE file into Voter Plus' *** *** home DIR and run it. It will convert your *** *** existing .VTR files to the new random access *** *** format that Version 1.35 uses. The old .VTR *** *** files will be saved with an extension of .BAK *** *** I suggest you keep the .BAK files until you *** *** are certain that the new version is working *** *** without any glitches. *** Changed quite a bit in the "survey" mode of operation. When a booth is a survey type booth, a caller may choose more than one answer, but may choose any one answer ONLY once. When voting on a survey type booth, after they vote, they will be offered a chance to vote again, rather than being returned to the Main Menu. When voting on a survey type booth, the caller will be informed that it is a survey type booth, and that voting more than once is permissible. When viewing a booth's profile via the SysOp function, an additional entry "Type:" will contain either "Normal" or "Survey". When editing a booth, if an answer was not changed, the "saved" message was not being displayed. Sep 21, 1992 - 1.30 - **** YOU MUST RUN THE SUPPLIED UPDATE.EXE PROGRAM **** **** PRIOR TO UGRADING TO THIS VERSION !! SIMPLY **** **** COPY THE UPDATE.EXE FILE INTO VOTER PLUS' **** **** HOME DIR AND RUN IT. IT WILL ADD A LINE TO **** **** EACH EXISTING .VTR FILE CONTAINING A DEFAULT **** **** VALUE OF 'NO' AS TO WHETHER TO ALLOW A VOTER **** **** TO VOTE MORE THAN ONCE. IF YOU WISH TO **** **** CHANGE THIS VALUE IN EXISTING BOOTHS, SIMPLY **** **** EDIT THE .VTR FILE AND CHANGE LINE 6 TO YES. **** **** DO NOT RUN UPDATE.EXE MORE THAN ONCE !!! **** Added the ability to allow multiple votes per caller. This is controlled by line 6 of the .VTR file. It is a YES/NO toggle. When creating a new booth, the caller will be asked whether to allow more than one vote per caller per booth. Added a message to the .CMT file telling which answer the writer of a comment chose. Increased stack size allocation by 5K. Increased the number of booths allowed in the unregistered version to 5. The name of the welcome file should be WELCOME or WELCOME.xxx where xxx equals the .LNG extension. There was an error in the history for 1.18 that specified VOTERWEL as the filename for this file. I apologize for any confusion it may have caused. Increased the maximum security level value for Creating and Voting to 65536. Sep 04, 1992 - 1.28 - Fixed a problem where regardless of whether Line 11 in the VOTER.CNF file contained YES or NO the caller was forced to vote first. Fixed a loose $MACRO$ that would slip thru in part of the code. Aug 15, 1992 - 1.26 - Added some additional code to guard against possible hack attempts of the .EXE file. Aug 09, 1992 - 1.25 - Changed the eXpert status function somewhat. All callers will start out in non-expert mode when they enter the door. Regardless of whether they toggle their status while in the door, their status upon returning to PCBoard will remain unchanged. Aug 07, 1992 - 1.24 - Added line 11 to the VOTER.CNF file. If this line contains YES then the caller will NOT be permitted to view the results of a booth they have not yet voted on. It seems that some non-PCBoard systems that are using QKDoor to convert the control files are having problems with the correct TIMELEFT value being displayed on the command line. It appears that QKDoor is not properly creating the PCBoard.Sys file. As an interim measure, you may add the following SET command to the batch file that calls VOTER PLUS, or in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file: SET VPLUS=xxx Where xxx equals the amount of time in MINUTES you wish the user to be allowed in the door. NOTE: If you are not ACTUALLY running PCBoard 14.5(a), then you should have NO in line 4 of the VOTER.CNF file. Otherwise, the caller will NOT be prompted whether they wish the Graph or Chart style display of the results. You may now register Voter Plus On-line using Mastercard or Visa. See ORDER.FRM for details. Jul 26, 1992 - 1.20 - In the logic that checks for a valid DOS filename when creating a new booth, I had missed the characters: "[" and "]". They are now also trapped as illegal. Jul 18, 1992 - 1.18 - Changed VOTER.WEC to VOTERWEL for multi-lang compatibility. The DOOR will look for and display VOTERWEL.xxx where .xxx equals the .LNG extension as defined in PCBoard's setup if the caller is in alternate language mode. Support has been added for multi-language HELP menus and text. If the caller is using an alternate language, Voter Plus will look for and display the file HLP-MENU.xxx Again .xxx equals PCB's .LNG extension. In the same fashion, you may create help files that correspond to Voter Plus's Main Menu commands, such as HELP-E.xxx, HELP-C.xxx, HELP-V.xxx, etc. The ground-work has been laid for FULL multi-lang support of all of Voter Plus's internal text output. What I need now is someone able to provide the translations. If anyone is interested, please drop me a note at one of the support BBS's listed in VOTER.DOC Voter Plus will now follow the Expert Mode toggle of the caller. The menu command <X> has also been added to allow the caller to toggle Expert Mode while in the door. The caller is now able to leave ONLY a comment regarding a specific booth. We will see how this works out. Seems to me it might allow for some nice "discussions" to take place in addition to the actual voting. This is <L> Leave a Comment on the Main Menu. Added "Saving Comment" message when in non-verbose mode. I realize that a lot of the above changes will only be of use to those running PCBoard compatible systems. What can I say ? Please let me know though if the changes cause non-PCB systems any problems. Jun 24, 1992 - 1.15 - When Creating A New Booth, The Option To Allow The Voter To Change Their Vote Would Always Be Saved As NO. The DOOR Would Not Allow A Caller To Edit Or Delete A Booth They Had Created If They Had Chosen To Have Their Name Suppressed. Jun 07, 1992 - 1.12 - Fixed A Problem With The Anonymous Option When Viewing The Results. Jun 05, 1992 - 1.11 - Fixed A Problem With The Anonymous Option. Jun 05, 1992 - 1.10 - Added The Option When Creating A Booth, For The Creator's Name To Be Suppressed When Voting Or Viewing The Results Of The Booth. A Suppressed Name Is Indicated By A * Before The Creator's Name Listed in the .VTR File. Added Lines 9 & 10 To The VOTER.CNF File. These Two Lines Are Numeric Values That Indicate The Minimum Security Needed To CREATE or VOTE On A Booth. Valid Values Range From 0 To 65536. See VOTER.DOC For Additional Details. May 29, 1992 - 1.06 - Fixed A Text Formatting Problem In The Help System. No Other Changes. May 26, 1992 - 1.05 - Added The Option To Supress The Messages That Are Normally Displayed Regarding File Access. Insert Line 8 In VOTER.CNF - YES/NO Whether Or Not You Wish Verbose Messages. See VOTER.DOC For Details. May 25, 1992 - 1.01 - Fixes Minor Problem Where Answers That Were "Added" By The Caller Were Not Being Properly Formatted. May 22, 1992 - 1.00 - Initial Release