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The future Version 5.4.0 |
| Improve customization of Web site (the code is done, need to wrap a dialog box around it) |
| Allow printing of a small logo on the various reports |
| Add on-line and context sensitive help |
| Write a manual |
| Add new types of rounds (prefinale with only ited couples redancing and prefinale with notes,
not only marks) |
| Add a scheduler to define and print competitions chaining and give an overview to the
technical director |
| More attributes for each competition (send me your suggestions) |
| ... anything you may propose ... |
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Planned in next release Version 5.3.7 |
| Completion database: ability to manage severals databases. |
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2003-01-21 Version 5.3.6 |
| Bugfix: in file saving (in some rare cases, the save was corrupted, the file
was saved correctly in XXX.save1.ska). |
| Bugfix: judge management could lead to incorrect state. |
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2002-12-12 Version 5.3.5 |
| General: new plugin mechanism to allow creation of competition from external sources.
(contact the author to develop a plug-in if you want to import data in a special format).
This is much more powerful than the Excel import which was offered. A similar plugin
mechanism has been develop for the printing subsystem too. |
| Event management/Judges: new option to compact the 10-dances competitions and
show only one button for all the dances in the judges selection. |
| Event management/General: the dances composing a 10-dances competition are now shown in
the summary. |
| Printing: new option to print the summary list (list of all the competitions). |
| Bugfix: the round management was not working with re-dance in 10-dances mode. |
| Saving: added special 'rescue' file generation should a bug occurs in saving process. Please
report this kind of problem to the author. |
| Event: new dialog to group couples and automatically sort couples by alphatebic order
when attributing the number. |
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2002-11-11 Version 5.3.4 |
| Bugfixes (default language was not loaded, bug while printing results, bad refresh
of panels when creating new judges) |
| Localization: new Italian translation (contributed by Bruno Torre & Daniela). |
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2002-09-27 Version 5.3.3 |
| Printing: added two new kind of reports used in IDSF competitions. |
| General: can now use 'Country' instead of 'School/Club' when entering
couples' information. |
| General: to conform to IDSF way of reporting results, the ex-aequo couples
are reported X-Y to show the range of places instead of the average place
(the old mode can still be used, use the settings window) |
| General: global attributes can be defined for a competition (place, organizer, music, ...) |
| Examples: new competition illustrating how to use pre-qualified couples. |
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2002-07-17 Version 5.3.2 |
| General: bug fixes in panel management (was improperly limited to 10 panels). |
| General: bug fixes preventing the save of 3s.db (database for quick input). |
| General: The user can now choose the dances short name (e.g. set 2 letters).
Better it was computed as the first letters of each word composing
the dance name. |
| License: New mode for licenses. Unlimited time, but limited to a max allowed
version. Need to renew license for major releases. |
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2002-05-08 Version 5.3.1 |
| Quite a long time since last release ... but I have started a new job and
changed houses, so I was busy lately. |
| General: many bug fixes in judges selections. The synchro between Event Management
and competitions was not always correct. |
| General: major changes in panels management. Now the panels used in each competitions
are memorized. A change of judge in the panel will be reflected in all the competitions
using this panel (this kind of change is only possible before notes are given).
The judges' letter changes are also tracked and updated in panels. |
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2002-02-28 Version 5.3.0 beta |
| General: support localization by translating all the strings of the program
(in Settings/Language string can be changed and new languages added) |
| General: support for prequalified couples (a couple can join the competition
in any round). |
| Rounds: speed up keyboard input by auto-selecting the next judge when all the
required marks are given. Also select next dance automagically. |
| Printing: new output with the list of couples competing for the different
competitions (useful to have an overview). |
| Printing: judges enrollment to show which judges are judging which competitions.
Can be used to see judges distribution among competitions. |
| Printing: new option to avoid printing of heat list. |
| Competitions templates: support for basic editing (text edition with search & replace). |
| General: bug fix in the ranking algorithm which was producing bad positions in some
rare cases (a really big thank you to Grant Donnelly who found the bug) |
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2002-01-07 Version 5.2.2 |
| Bugfixes in print, better processing of panels & templates names. |
| Finale: new tabs to enter the finale notes by judges. All the dances are presented
on one screen as printed on the mark sheets. |
| Finale: improvement of keyboard input. The judges are using letters and the couples
numbers, so the first digit following one or more letter means to select to
corresponding judge (thanks to Fulvio for this idea, among many others). |
| Competitions: new dialog to allow quick creation of competition using template.
(right click on the 'New Competition' icon). Models files for ISDF, FFD/CNSD, ANMB
and "compétitions de médaillés" available. Ask for other templates files or just
use a text editor (simple list, see the provided file for examples). |
| General: you can now save and load preferences files (this allow multiples
users and/or multiple event styles). |
| General: speed improvements when displaying Event/Couples or Event/Judges with a large
number of couples, judges and competitions. |
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2001-12-05 Version 5.2.1 |
| Major bugfixes, some of some could lead to file corruption while saving. |
| Printing: number of selected/asked couples for the next round printed
in the results. |
| Printing: print a list of judges (if requested) when printing result for
one given round. |
| Option: rearragment of printing options. |
| General: support for 'Pre-finale'. Adds another round if too many couples
are qualified for a finale. |
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2001-11-19 Version 5.2.0 |
| General : support for user attributes for a competition (age, type, level). |
| Web site generation : support for international sites (Unicode support). |
| Printing : mark sheets can now be printed with all the dances on
one sheet (work best with full page format). |
| Printing : support for user defined formatting in the headers (main header + mark sheets). |
| Printing : in summaries, the results are now printed from the highest round to the lowest
(the lastest round achieve by one couple is shown first). |
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2001-11-06 Version 5.1.1 |
| Web site generation : automatic generation of a ZIP archive to allow
the visitor to download a complete version of the site (up to 90 or 95 %
of compression). |
| Printing : mark sheets are now grouped by judge, and the mark sheets
for each judge start on a new page if requested. |
| Printing : user can print the results of the competitions (when
available) in the enrollment sheets. |
| About : display of the version number and URL for this site on
the splash screen. |
| Credits: special thank for Fulvio and Istvan for ideas to
improve the program. |
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2001-10-22 Version 5.1.0 |
| New and more professional installer for Windows. |
| New way to enter the couples & judges for the competitions, directly
in the tables where the names are defined. This offer a good summary
of the couples & judges involvement. |
| Possibility to enforce the 50% rule (at least 50% of the competitors
should be selected from one round to the next). |
| Direct adjustement of the number of couples to select in the next round. |
| Direct printing of the heats in the result tab. |
| Support for couples aliasing. Use the notation '1.1', '1.2' to create severals entries
for one number. Couples aliasing do not work in 10-dances mode. |
| Added new shortcuts to ease input. Double click on a couple or judge name in
mark input window will toggle all the notes : this allow quick input of the
couples seleected by all the judges. |
| Ask confirmation before to quit the program |
| New option for mark sheets : all the dances for a finale can be printed on
one sheet or, as before, one danse per sheet. |
| New option for enrollment printing : the couples can be grouped by school/club. |
| Bug fixes: use of "Shift+Tab" in the tables, support for cut & paste into the tables,
some print out incorrect in ten-dances summaries. |
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2001-06-19 Version 5.0.5 |
| support for international languages (limited for Windows 9x, full support for Windows NT/2000) |
| support for file association on Windows (open a '.ska' file with a double click) |
| export/import (using clipboard) of the auto-completion database for edition (e.g. with Excel) |
| contextual popup menu to allow renaming of competitions/folders |
| minor bug fixes (mixing of judges with 1 and 2 letters was not functional, problem to create a
competition after the 'New/Standard mode' dialog) |
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2001-05-28 Version 5.0.4 |
| printing : add support for user defined margins |
| printing : the user can now select the pages to print |
| printing : new options to print judges' letters instead of the X |
| printing (mark sheets) : new options to print only the heats, to add list of judges
and/or dances, and to allow a space for judges to sign |
| new function to force the validation of a round even is the marks given by the judges
are incorrect (usefull if some judges forgot the select the correct number of couples) |
| new license scheme allowing severals ID to be embended in the same 3s.license file |
| generation of Web site : working code, most of the custimization part is missing |
| minor bug fixes |
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2001-05-09 Version 5.0.3 |
| minor bug fixes |
| you can now toggle quickly all the marks for a couple or a judge by clicking
on its number or name |
| in the summaries, new colunm to show the cumulative total of marks or sum of places for a couple |
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2001-05-01 Version 5.0.2 |
| bug fixes |
| enhance support for printing |
| list to check enrollment of couples |
| new features when printing judges' mark sheets |
| auto-saving of data now possible |
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2001-04-18 Version 5.0.1 |
| support for ten-dances style competition |
| support for printing marks-sheets for the round & finale |
| automatic management of heats |
| support for more judges (now a judge must respect the format letter + letter/number, so 962 judges maximum)
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| GUI improvement (thank to Fulvio Secolo for many ideas) |
| printing fully rewritten to support landscape printing and remove bugs when using some printers |
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2001-03-26 Version 5.0.0 (released only to beta-testers) |
| thank to all the people who help me testing the release |
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2000-11-01 Version 4.0 |
| management of user preferences |
| new way to input the couples and the judges (tables à la Excel) |
| support for import & export of couples and judges |
| support for judges' panels |
| support for templates to defines group of dances |
| possibility to add a comment for each round in each competition |
| new features to handle excluded couples in finales |
| improvment of printing: the long lines are now truncated |
| bug fixes and generation of a 'bug report' file to ease bug tracing |
| Special thank to Fulvio Secolo (ANMB Genoa Comitee, Italy) for pointing out a bug.
This file illustrate the bug: when more than two couples where
tied for a place, the tie was incorrectly handled.
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| Special thank to Grant Donnelly (New Zealand) for pointing out a bug
This example.ska file illustrate the bug: when using the rule 11(d),
after affecting the place, you need to start again the rule 10.
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2000-04-27 Version 3.1 |
| correction of a (nasty) bug in some case when using rules 11(d) |
| added a mode to order the couples by marks total when printing |
| some bug fixes |
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2000-03-24 Version 3.0 |
| fast selection of couples and judges (just typing their number or letter) |
| automatic or manual management of rounds (arbitrary number of couples in each round/finale) |
| when printing the table of couples is now sorted in order of the couples places |
| new summary in event window (# of couples, judges and summary of the competitions) |
| database keeping the name of couples and judges (automatic completion for the next input) |
| some bug fixes |
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2000-03-01 |
| New site. I am now hosted at Free.fr |
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1999-08-15 Version 2.0 |
| new management of judges (differents sets of judges can be affected to each round) |
| printing of summary table for couples/judges in the sheet for finale |
| printing of the finalists name in the summary sheet |
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1999-07-12 Version 1.2 |
| new scrolling features using the keyboard |
| correction of bugs in printing |
| new tips to know the name of couple/judge when entering data |
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1999-06-15 Version 1.1 |
| support for 640x480 |
| new way of signaling changes in couples/judges |
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1999-06-02 Version 1.0 |
| first public release |
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