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- This programm is under public domain. You are allowed to use it, modify
- or improve it and distribute it for free. However you are not allowed
- to make any profit by using the programm or parts of its code !
-
- So have a lot of fun using
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- Version : 1.20 (23 Dec 1995)
-
- Requirements :
-
- Charts uses Acorn's Drawfile module. So it will only work with
- RiscOS 3.1 or higher.
-
- Purpose :
- This program will help you create and manage charts as they
- will occur in the Formula-1-World Championship or similar
- events.
-
- How this application works :
- It will work like most other WIMP applications so it should
- be rather easy to ues it. After starting it by double clicking
- it will install its icon on the icon bar.
-
- It's main menue has the foollowing items :
-
- Contest :
- You can change the name of the contest here.
-
- Options :
- In the upper part of the Options-window you may specify how many
- points you'll score for each position.
- In the central part you can choose whether the team names shall be
- listed in he rankings and whether it shall be computed how often a
- competitor scored in an event or how often he came in on a certain
- position.
- The number of single events is entered below this.
- It is possible with Charts to manage different catagories (e.g. in
- the Ski Weltcup : Downhill,Slalom,...). Choose the option "catagories"
- in the bottom part of the window and enter the number and the names
- of the catagories to use these facilities.
-
- Input :
- For each event a name and its catagory may be specified.
- To enter the reults click MENUE on the according position and
- you'll enter a menue of teams. In the team-submenue you can
- then select the competitor. To enter new teams or competitor
- choose the items "Team" or "Name" at the end of the (sub)menue.
- If you select the competitors with ADJUST the menue structure
- will keep open and you may select the competitor on the following
- position.
- If a sensible classification into several teams (f.e. countries)
- is not possible you could f.e. use an alphabetical one. It is
- not possible not to specitfy teams.
- Note: Two competitor with the same name but different teams will
- be treated as different ! (that implies that one competitor can't
- belong to two teams !)
-
- Display :
- Here the results and standings can be displayed. in the case the
- display window is not large enough you can swap pages with
- SELECT and ADJUST.
- Choosing the submenue-item "Save" will save the current display
- in one of three formats :
- - as a textfile for further use with a wordprocessor or a DTP
- package. Note that the colomns are separated by TAB's.
- A "style" file for the Acorn-DTP package is provided as an example.
- - as a piece of preformated HTML-hypertext (included in <PRE> </PRE>).
- The HTML-file will have the filetype &345 (as used by !Webster).
- To change this filetype change the content of the variable
- htmltype$ defined at the top of "!RunImage" in the application
- directory.
- - as a Draw-File (the simplest and most useful)
-
- Save (and Load) :
- You can choose to save "All" or just the names of the competitors
- and their teams, the options or the results.
- The whole contest is saved as a directory ( to load, drag this into
- the icon).
- This Directory will contain the two files "data" (which contains the
- results) and "form" (the options) and the textfile "name".
- This has to be of the following form :
- Charts/name
- [name of the contest]
- team name
- :competitor
- :competitor
- team name
- :competitor
- ...
- This makes it possible to enter and edit the names and teams easily
- by using a text editor (EDIT,...).
-
- Languages :
- The files "Menus" and "Strings" in the application directory can be
- modified to "translate" the program into other languages. Or perhaps
- you just want to input "drivers" instead of "competitors" or "countries"
- instead of "teams".
- For translation you'll have to change the template definition, too !
-
- This Program is a result of my first approach to WIMP-programming so it
- is rather simple. On the other side it can be adapted easily and will
- be sufficient for most applications.
- For bugs, improvements, suggestions contact me :
-
- Michael Bader
- Palestrinastr. 24
- 85598 Baldham
- Germany
- e-mail : bader@informatik.tu-muenchen.de
-
- Improvements in Version v1.10 :
- - some minor bugs and features have been corrected
- - the output in the display window and into the textfile has been improved
- (swapping, formatting of the textfile)
-
- Inprovements in Version v1.11 :
- - HTML-output
-
- Inprovements in Version v1.20 :
- - The display window is now rendered by the Drawfile module. This makes
- window redraw slightly faster and the display window can be saved as
- a drawfile.
- - some improvements in the use of the data transfer protocol
- - Chart now gives an alert if the user wants to quit without saving
- modifications