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My group, SunQuest Games, ran ConMaster .90 successfully to register gaming at The Games at MegaCon 2003 here in Orlando. Running on an 800 mHz AMD processor with 256 megs of memory, using Win XP, there were no problems at all. God bless you, code people. You have enabled us to accurately document that we had 500 gaming guests, which should help our credibility with the people who run the convention, CrossGen Comics.
The lovely Lady Elaine, who did nearly all the entry, had no problems with the operation of the program. She has five comments on the program, though.
1) Many people come up with their friends to register for the identical events and sections. I guess you could say they "cluster-game." It would be helpful if it was possible to enter a new person and repeat the same event/section entries.
2) The notice that a particular section of an event is "sold out" isn't very apparent. (Elaine has some visual impairments, but even for ordinary folks, this is something that needs to be made very obvious.)
3) There is no error checking to see if someone has entered two different events with the same section. It's possible to see that someone has entered "200.6" and "314.6" by manually checking the entries, but an actual flag that this has happened would be valuable.
4) The tickets are clearly supposed to be printed on business card stock. (We actually printed them on legal-size paper: people don't lose their individual tickets that way.) However, the type is teeny-tiny small. In what location would we find the code to change the type size/font of the printed tickets?
Any help you can offer on these matters would be very helpful. And again, thanks.
Awesome, Tom! Glad to hear that things went well. The Ben Con folks here in Colorado have found some more bugs that I've been fixing, I hope to submit a patch by the end of the month.
As far as tweaking the tickets, you can look in the cm/templates directory and play with your copy of badge_and_tickets.html or just tickets.html . They are pretty much just raw HTML, so you can tweak them with any old text or HTML editor. Probably even MS Word! I suggest you back up your old copy first, of course. :) Just leave the stuff in {} alone, and you should still have a working template.
As for the other feature requests, why don't you put them in individually into the Trackers here on SourceForge as feature requests/bugs? That makes them easy to keep track of.
Thanks for the feedback, and I'm glad thing went well!
Tim White