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Change in Belgian KAVVV tabletennis competition rules
From the competition year 2016-2017 on, it is expected to have sets to 11 winning points instead of 21.
That means that the number of winning sets will be 3 instead of 2, with a maximum of 5 sets instead of 3.
Also is expected that all matches have to be entered in an online system, so no need any more for detail calculations of all the personal win an loss sets and games; this is done online now.
() the original motiviation to create this software, remember?
Therefore, the usefull output of this program is limited.
We note that there may not be an official competition form delivered to the clubs yet.
So this program is adjusted to print:

• a blanco, i.e. empty form, ready to fill
• (expected) pre-filled form for home matches
• (possible future) calculation of the individual sets/matches, as some people like to take note of it for personal score. Maybe we will create a second print page for these personal results, give feedback!

The home players can be entered in the Settings window, by means of a text of textlines with player no, player name, player firstname, player level.

This makes it possible to give more players in one entry.

Starting a new match, one can choose players from a list in the "heading" (click somewhere in the header of the main screen to get the "header" information of the form).
Some testing still has to be done.

Instead of just having one default/home team, save more teams and their players.

Small change to 0.2.9, and will probably be in use now for a while:

• Double game windows gives also the choice to clear the double game choice in the main window.

0.2.6 The double game now has its own window for the choice of the players; it is split in the normal 1+2, 1+3, 2+3, and the optional part of a fourth player contributing to the double game only (never saw it happen, but the rules allow it!).
Entry of the fourth player name still has to be fixed (can be done manually in main window).

0.2.7 The grid of the home players and away players is plit in 2; this is better now to enter the data of the players, because you stay in the team-grid (instead of moving horizontally line after line over the two teams).... read more

The level of the player of away players, as seen in the player grid, did not show up in the game grid. Not a big deal (it was printed fine), but it is fixed now.
If you are using the .gambas file, you can download that and use it to replace the old version. Just remember to make it executable! (chmod +x)

Now the auto-fill points of the away-team winning game is properly saved and retrieved.
(bug only showed up if you choose "Settings", "Predict other .."

Program in use since january 5th 2015.

Most things should work now.
Print shows all filled data of the form on the screen.
But store data / reopen data needs some work, most things are retrieved but some issues with the double game. Still looking for a good way to do this.
I would try to use this version in january (unless I find the time to polish more).

0.2.2
Print now shows points of sets and totals (set, match).
(no totals in the players grid down under)

0.2.1
Print now shows matchnr (and location of end result).

• players names filled now on print
• results of sets and matches counted again after loading points from file
  But fighting with the choice of players for the double-game - will fix later

You can already have a preview of how it will work.
The data from the form is not yet filled in the print, but you can try out the print already (some names are taken from the screen, only the names of the home team for the moment)
Hope to be ready in January when the competition restarts..

Versions around 1.6 did sometimes do auto-print (because of intensive print testing in development) and had problems with choosing the player combination of the double game (where the question was asked too many times and/or looked like not going away).
Fixed in higher versions.
Current planning is to have a working version from january 2015 on, so the second half of the year can be done by Kavvvka... read more

Two features you can use now:

• print an empty form with the whole layout as normal. Use when running out of official forms
• print an empty form with the header information filled: week match, home and visitor teams, place, etc.

All versions like 0.0.x were intended for use on screen only.

Then the screen libraries were changed, and the program was split in a KDE version (continued under the name Kavvvka; this is the main development), and a GTK version under the name Kavvvga, this will be updated after the Kavvvka version is ready)

From 0.1.x on the work on the print form started.