Lottery

Lottery is a free palm application for checking your lottery tickets. Anyone who has many tickets, such as those in a lottery syndicate, will know how much trouble it is to go through all the tickets checking them against the week's winning numbers. This program will do all that work for you by checking all of the tickets and telling you which ones have won anything.

This current version is modelled around the lottery in the UK and as such it handles tickets containing six numbers of between one and fourty nine. Six main numbers and a bonus number are drawn each time the lottery is played and the winning combinations are three, four, five or six main numbers or five main numbers and the bonus ball. In the future I would like to extend my program to be configurable for any lottery system so I would appreciate any information detailing the lotteries in your area so that I can make sure that it will be able to handle them.

Download

Click on one of the links below to download an archive containing the files. Both archives contain the same files so you just need to download the one easiest for you to unpack (probably the zip file for windows users).

• lottery-1_1.zip
• lottery-1_1.tar.gz

Installation and Use

Once you have downloaded and unpacked the archive you should have a file called Lottery.prc in your directory. Install this file onto your Palm Pilot in the usual way using the 'Install Tool' or similar which comes with the Palm Pilot. Once installed an icon with the label 'Lottery' should appear in your application list.

The Lottery application works very much like standard Palm applications such as MemoPad. From the main screen, tap 'New' to add a new ticket. Once a ticket has been entered you can edit it by tapping on the entry for it in the list. From the edit screen you can change any of the numbers, change the category or delete the ticket. Tapping the 'Check' button on the main screen will let you check the tickets in the current category against the weeks results. You will be prompted to enter the winning numbers and then the tickets will be checked. You can customize the result display from the 'Prefences' menu on the main screen. Because only the tickets in the current category are checked when you hit the 'Check' button, you can group your tickets into different categories for different competitions. For example you may want to create one category for Saturday tickets and another for Wednesday tickets in the UK lottery. To check all tickets just select the 'All' category.

Bug Reports

This is one of the first programs which I've written for the Palm Pilot so there could well be plenty of bugs hiding in there somewhere... If you find any faults in either the application itself or its documentation then I would be really grateful if you could report them to me by email at matt@mattmarsh.net. If you could include the version number of the program you are running (this can be found from the 'About' dialog box) then that would also be helpful.

Distribution and Usage Policy

 You are permitted to use this program free of charge. You may also distribute it in any way and may even charge for it's distribution if you wish, however you must not modify the software and all copyright notices must remain in tact. You must obtain written permission for use or distribution other than detailed here.

BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY 
FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN 
OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES 
PROVIDE THE PROGRAM "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER 
EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED 
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE 
ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH 
YOU. SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL 
NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.

IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING 
WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY AND/OR 
REDISTRIBUTE THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR 
DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL 
DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM 
(INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED 
INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF 
THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER PROGRAMS), EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR 
OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

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