Hi Martin,
I ran an event yesterday and was re-acquainted with Ór for the first time in a few years. I'd just like to say kudos to you for what is a fantastic piece of software.
I had one young lad who forgot to clear and had a corrupted start time so I could have made use of the latest update to Ór if I had read this forum earlier. (I was able to fix the start time afterwards anyway)
I have a few suggestions, please feel free to ignore them if I they don't make sense or the functionality already exists but I have not been using it correctly.
The first is an idea to speed up registrations, especially for anyone who has trouble reading SI card numbers. Would it be possible for people to register just by inserting the SI into the reader. If the SI was either blank or its latest start was not today, then it would pop up the new competitor dialog box, populated with the SI number and other competitor details if they were in the database. The organiser would then just check the details (or fill in the blanks), select the desired course and hit OK and the competitor would be entered (status Yellow).
A second one would be to have a different colour status for competitors that were pre-entered versus ones who had physically shown up. Eg yesterday, I imported a start list with everyone who had pre-registered for the whole summer league as well as a few who pre-registered specifically for yesterday's event. At the end of the event, I still had lots of entries showing yellow though I knew that they were not all out on the course by the dwindling number of keys in the bowl. If they were say Blue when imported and only turned to Yellow when they arrived at the desk, and I entered their SI and confirmed their course. (or they stick their SI in the unit as per above), I would have had an accurate picture of who was actually still out.
Lastly, when someone who had pre-registered arrived at the desk yesterday, called out their SI and I entered it, I got a dialog saying eg "361774 has already been used by Daithi Power - Do you want to use it again? - Yes - No". When, I hit No, I got "Please enter an SI Number" It would be better if it opened the existing entry for that SI so that I could check the course and other details were correct. Instead, I closed the dialog, then searched for the entry in the start list, opened it and picked/confirmed the course. Not a biggie and if I had all the correct info when I imported, it wouldn't have mattered but when there is a queue of people waiting and you keep losing sight of the cursor because of the sunlight, every little helps.
Again, thanks for all of the work that you put into Ór. It really makes things so much easier,
Daithí