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- TA Voting Booth - Version 1.0
- By Roger Clark (TA Sysop #2042)
-
- Introduction:
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- After many hours of frustration trying to get the Paragon door Voting
- Booth to run on my BBS with PTA, I decided to write my own in ARexx and
- incorporate the best features from other voting booths on other BBS's.
- The result is VB1.0, and I hope you like it.
-
- Features:
- ~~~~~~~~~
- o Keeps track of individual users answers to each question.
- o Displays percentage and total number of votes for each answer
- to every question.
- o Allows a user to go back and change thier answer, and thereby
- recalculates the percentages and totals for the answers based
- on the new response.
- o You can add on additional questions at any time and the Voting Booth
- will adjust the individual users data files when they vote again.
- o With the PATCH program to your Logon.trans file, you can have the
- BBS tell the user at logon that they haven't voted on one or more
- questions in the Voting Booth.
-
- Installation:
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- o Copy the file VB10.trans to your BBS:Rexx directory.
- o Edit the appropriate command file (Main.Cmds, Extra.Cmds, etc.)
- and add the neccessary line to access the program.
- o Create the directory "BBS:Doors/Poll" for the resulting data files
- to reside.
- o Create a question file in the BBS:Doors/Poll directory called VBData.
- The format for the VBData file is as follows:
-
- 3 | Total number of questions to ask
- Question 1 | Question number 1
- 3 | Number of answers for question 1
- Answer 1 | Answer 1 for Question 1
- Answer 2 | Answer 2 for Question 1
- Anwser 3 | Answer 3 for Question 1
- Question 2 | Question number 2
- 2 | etc...
- Answer 1 |
- Answer 2 |
- Question 3 |
- 4 |
- Answer 1 |
- Answer 2 |
- Answer 3 |
- Answer 4 |
-
- o That's about it. Run the voting booth and cast your votes!
-
- Maintenance:
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~
- You can add additional questions to your Voting Booth at any time.
- Simply add the additional question(s) to the end of the VBData file, and
- change the first line to reflect the new number of questions available.
- If you wish to remove a question, this will take a bit more work, as
- currently you would need to edit ALL the data files to reflect the new
- order of the questions. The next release will hopefully have a sysop
- maintenance module built in to handle this for you.
-
- Questions:
- ~~~~~~~~~~
- Please direct any questions or comments to me at one of the following
- addresses:
-
- The Hotel California (My BBS)
- (512) 385-2621 (24 Hours)
- 300/1200/2400/9600 (v.32/v.42/v.42bis/MNP5)
- Fido (Coming soon!)
-
- Chris' Amiga
- (716) 289-3351 (24 Hours)
- USR DS/HST 38,400
- Fido#1:260/660.0
-
- HillTop BBS (Best place to send me FidoNet mail)
- (512) 837-3070 (24 Hours)
- 300/1200/2400
- Fido#1:382/36.0
-