============================================= | | | LeagueTable Version 1.3 | | | | Read Me file | | | ============================================= Copyright 1995 Steve Mainprize All Rights Reserved ************************************************************************ * * * IF YOU DON'T READ ANYTHING ELSE, READ THE INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS! * * * ************************************************************************ The Basics ========== LeagueTable is a Windows application for keeping track of a football (soccer) league. The program allows you to set up a list of up to 30 teams, and then to enter results throughout a season or tournament. Throughout the season the program keeps track of the latest league table; you can also display a variety of statistics, graphs and so on. The application also offers the ability to attach textual information to the numerical data. This can be information on the individual teams in the league, and/or diary-type information collected through the year, such as manager sackings, scandals, transfers and so on. LeagueTable runs under Windows 3.x, and comes complete with a demo league of fictional teams and results, AND the data files required for the 1995/96 FA Carling Premiership. LeagueTable is shareware. The save functions are disabled, but can be enabled by entering a password. The password will be sent to you when you register, and will automatically work on any and all future versions of LeagueTable. Features ======== - Leagues of up to 30 user-defined teams. - League table showing: Matches played; Home matches won; Home matches drawn; Home matches lost; Home goals for; Home goals against; Away matches won; Away matches drawn; Away matches lost; Away goals for; Away goals against; Number of clean sheets; Goal difference; Points. - Graphical display of the following information, over time, for any team: Clean Sheets; Defeats; Draws; Goal Difference; Goals Against; Goals For; Points; Position; Wins. - Graphs colour-coded to show home and away results in each team's home and away colours. - Ability to display the league table as it stood on any date. - Fast entry of results via drop-down lists. - Searches for results of fixtures via drop-down lists. - Deletion of single results; or deletion of all results, for preparation of a new season. - Statistical calculations: Number of teams in the current league; Number of matches played to date; Percentage of the season completed; Average number of goals scored per match; Percentage of drawn matches; Highest number of goals scored in a single match; Biggest winning margin. - Ability to add 'Timeline' textual information. - Ability to add textual information about each team. - Unlimited number of leagues held on disk. - Ability to export league table to text files, for transfer to other packages such as word processors and speadsheets. - Definable title for each league. - 2 or 3 points for a win. - Ability to exclude results for matches played against any team or teams. - Definable background colours. Data Supplied ============= Two leagues are supplied. A small demonstration league, with some results already entered, is stored in the file DEMO.LGE. The files PREM9596.* hold all the information you need to start keeping track of the 1995/96 FA Carling Premiership. Installation ============ 1. You will need a copy of a file called VBRUN300.DLL. You may already have a copy. Look in your \WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory; if it's there, you can carry on. If not, you will have to get a copy. See the section "The VBRUN300.DLL file", below. 2. Create a new directory where the application will be installed, for example C:\LEAGUE. From now on, I will refer to this directory as the "install directory". 3. All the files supplied with LeagueTable (including this one) are supplied on a self-extracting zip file called LGE13INS.EXE. If you are reading this, you have probably worked that out by now. The recommended way of extracting these files is as follows. In DOS, put LGE13INS.EXE into your install directory. Then make sure that your current directory is the install directory, and type LGE13INS and press enter. This should create a number of files in your install directory. If you type DIR, you should see the following files: LGE13INS.EXE GRAPH.VB_ GSWDLL.DL_ GSW.EX_ GRID.VB_ CMDIALOG.VB_ COMMDLG.DL_ LEAGUE13.EX_ LEAGUE.HL_ SETUP.EXE VER.DL_ SETUPKIT.DL_ DEMO.LGE SETUP.LST SETUP1.EX_ PREM9596.I1 PREM9596.I10 PREM9596.I11 PREM9596.I12 PREM9596.I13 PREM9596.I14 PREM9596.I15 PREM9596.I16 PREM9596.I17 PREM9596.I18 PREM9596.I19 PREM9596.I2 PREM9596.I20 PREM9596.I3 PREM9596.I4 PREM9596.I5 PREM9596.I6 PREM9596.I7 PREM9596.I8 PREM9596.I9 PREM9596.LGE PREM9596.TIM README.TXT 4. In Windows, select RUN from the File menu in Program Manager. In the box marked 'Command Line', type C:\LEAGUE\SETUP. (If your install directory is not called C:\LEAGUE, substitute your own install directory name as appropriate.) Press enter, or click on 'OK'. 5. The installation program will now run. If you see the message "Cannot find VBRUN300.DLL", please refer to step 1 above. 6. You will be asked for the name of the directory where you want to install the software. Enter the name of your install directory. A new program group and program item for LeagueTable will be added to Program Manager for you. 7. You can now run LeagueTable by double-clicking on its icon in Program Manager. Try opening the files DEMO.LGE and PREM9596.LGE to see what the application can do. Full instructions are available in the Help option (press F1, or select Help from the menu bar). As mentioned earlier, you can now delete some files, if you wish. The following files can safely be deleted from the install directory. i. All files whose file extensions end in an underscore character ("_"). ii. SETUP.LST iii. SETUP.EXE The VBRUN300.DLL File ===================== VBRUN300.DLL is a file that contains library routines needed to run many Windows shareware applications. It is often not supplied with shareware that requires it. This is because the file is quite large, and it would be inefficient to supply it with each piece of software that requires it. If you don't have a copy, you can probably obtain it from the same place that you got this software from. For example, on Compuserve you can download a copy from the WINSHARE forum; it is available from most such service providers and on many Bulletin Boards (BBS's). Once you have your copy of VBRUN300.DLL, make sure it is located in the SYSTEM directory below your Windows directory. You should then be able to install LeagueTable successfully. Selecting a data file automatically =================================== You can have LeagueTable automatically load a particular league when you run the application. To do this, follow these steps. 1. Select the League icon by single-clicking on it. 2. Select PROPERTIES from the File menu in Program Manager. 3. Ensure that the Working Directory box holds the name of the directory that contains the League file (i.e. a file with a LGE extension). 4. Ensure that the command line contains the full path for the LeagueTable application, for example C:\LEAGUE\LEAGUE13.EXE. 5. To the end of the Command Line, add the name of the league file that you want to load. The path and the .LGE extension are not required. 6. If you want, you can also change the Description line to reflect the name of the league that you will be loading. For example, if your copy of LeagueTable is in a directory called C:\LEAGUE, and you want to load a league stored in a file called C:\PREMIER\PREM9596.LGE, your Command Line should contain the text: C:\LEAGUE\LEAGUE13.EXE PREM9596 and your Working Directory should be: C:\PREMIER You might also change the Description to read: F.A. Carling Premiership 1995/96 Registration ============ There are two ways of registering the software. 1. Send your name, address, and payment of œ10 UK Sterling to: Steve Mainprize 118 Rostrevor Road Stockport SK3 8UT UNITED KINGDOM Cheques should be made payable to Steve Mainprize. Sterling cheques or Eurocheques are acceptable, as are international money orders in sterling. Please do not send foreign currency cheques. Your password will be sent when your cheque has cleared. 2. If you have access to a Compuserve account, GO SWREG. Select "Register Shareware". Search for Registration ID 6327. Registration via this method costs US$ 20, which will be charged to your Compuserve account. Your password will be sent via e-mail within a few days. Distribution ============ If you want to distribute this software, please do so. However, I ask that you only do this by copying the original self-extracting zipped file LGE13INS.EXE. Feedback ======== If you have any problems with, comments about, or suggestions for this software, I would be happy to hear about them. You can contact me by e-mail at 100256.3377@compuserve.com, or via ordinary mail at the address given in the Registration section above. Thank you for trying this software, Steve