
Lottery Number $elector			Copyright (C) Moose O'Malley, 
-----------------------			June 1997.

Lottery Number $elector for Windows 3.1, 3.11, 95, NT.

Lottery Number $elector is a program designed for the
sole purpose of helping you win loads of dosh on the lottery,
by helping you choose a nice random set of numbers for you 
to enter into your lottery - whatever its characteristics !

To get a set of lottery numbers, simply change the settings 
to suit your particular lottery, and then press the 
"Generate Numbers" button and sit back and wait while
Lottery Number $elector graphically shuffles a random 
set of numbers for you.

Lottery Number $elector enables you to select :

- the number of balls you want to choose.
  The currently supported range is 1-16.

- the number of supplementary balls drawn.
  The currently supported range is 0-2.

- the total number of balls in the draw.
  The currently supported range is 20-999.  
  N.B.  Only Registered Users can change this setting.

Numbers drawn are shown inside circles and supplementary
numbers (if any) are shown inside squares.

With the wide range of settings provided, I believe that 
Lottery Number $elector will work with most if not all 
lotteries in the world.  However, if anybody needs 
anything extra, please let me know.

You can also set the ball colour and ball font size and colour.

This program could also be used to replace Bingo balls -
simply set the number of balls you want chosen to 1,
and set the total number of balls to whatever you need,
and press the "Generate Numbers" button to generate each 
seperate Bingo call.

Developed using 16-bit Delphi.


The Future :
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Many things could be done with this program in the future,
such as :

- Log the numbers generated to a file, to enable users to
  look at previous draws.

- Enable graphs to be drawn on this previous draw data
  to show which numbers are being generated most.
  (Over many 1,000's of draws, all numbers should be drawn
  fairly equally).

- Enable you to input the actual winning numbers of previous
  lottery draws, and use this data to alter the odds slightly
  to make the frequently occuring winning numbers more likely
  to be generated by this program.

- Enable the user to choose what random number seeds are used
  within the program to generate randow numbers.
  For example, your birth date, the time of the day, the current
  date, how many brothers / sisters you have, etc could all be 
  used as seeds to the random number generator !

- The ability to sort the drawn numbers into ascending order.

- Anything else ?

Once you Register this program, all future upgrades are FREE !!

There are programs on the market that perform some of the above
but cost many times more that my $5 Registration Fee.

What upgrades I do depends on what sort of response I get to 
this program, and what other suggestions I get.

  
Please notify all Wins :
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Would all people winning money using my program please 
Email me and let me know.  It is nice to know when it 
brings people success !!  And I might include a $$$ 
won so far section in this text file.


Sharware Information :
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This is NOT free software.

This product is shareware.  

This means that you can try out the software for evaluation 
purposes without charge for a period of 21 days to enable you
to decide whether to purchase / register it.

If you use this software after the 21 day evaluation period
a registration fee is required.  See the Registration Form
in the file register.txt.

Unregistered use of this software after the 21-day evaluation 
period is in violation of U.S. and international copyright laws.

If you do not purchase / register the software after the 21 day
trial period, then you must delete it from your system.

In order to encourage me to develop this software and keep 
developing other software, I encourage you to do the right 
thing and register the software.

I could have easily have made the programs nag you to Register, 
or expire after 21 days of use, but I do not like this approach.

From April 97 on, however, some of the new functionality being 
added to my programs will be available for Registered users only.
I tried to avoid doing this, but now I have been forced to do 
this to try and encourage some Registrations.

I live in the hope that if people use the programs, then they 
will register them.

Registered users will receive FREE upgrades of the program for
the life of the program.  i.e. as long as I keep improving the
program, registered users will get this new / additional 
functionality for FREE.

To Register, please complete the Registration Form in
the file register.txt.


Ammendment History :
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Vers    Date        Description
1.0     16-Jun-97   First Public Release.
1.1     11-Jan-98   Fix a long standing but very elusive problem
                    to do with "DateEncode" errors which occured
                    on some machines under some conditions.
                    Once I could replicate the error, it was
                    reasonably straight forward to get a workaround
                    for what was another bug in Delphi.
                    (2,888 lines of code.)


If this program was not downloaded from my Home Page, then
it is most likely an old version.  The latest version of this 
program is available from my Home page and its mirrors.

Moose
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