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Random Pick

Clicking the ‘Random Pick’ button will activate the plugin animation. While the interface between the plugins are the same, each plugin is fundamentally different.

Plugins

More in-depth details on how each plugin works can be found on each of the plugin download pages.

The MagicWheel Plugin

• The wheel can be loaded with names and randomly sorted.
• The wheel will spin according to the strength it starts with.
• It will then slowly stop and pick a random ticket.

The MagicHat Plugin.

• The hat can be filled with names.
• The hat will shake and mix up the list.
• It will then stop and pick a random ticket.

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Ticket Pool

The Ticket Pool holds all tickets. This list is actually separate from the plugin’s internal list and is coded to update along-side it.

• Click “Add” to enter a new ticket.
  • Set a name, color, and ticket count before adding.
• Double click an entry to edit.
  • You can change the color, or Add/Subtract ticket the count.
  • Subtract the ticket count below 1 to remove the entry.
  • Updating will reset the entry to your current setting.

Options

The Options menu contains two special features besides the Advanced option.

Move Winning Ticket from Pool

• This option will move individual tickets from the Ticket Pool to the Winning Pot.
• Move them back by selecting them, then clicking ‘Move Back’.
• No tickets are deleted from Picket using this option.

Remove Winner from Pool

• This option will remove all of the person’s tickets if he is selected as a winner.
• Ensure no-one wins more than once.
• Tickets are deleted from Picket using this option.

Advanced

Advanced option will expand the GUI to show more on-screen options.

The Automatic Pic option will allow multiple Winners to be selected automatically.

• All will continuously pick until the Ticket Pool is empty.
• Count will continuously pick until the counter reaches 0.

The pick strength slider allows you to control how long the picking process will take.

• Weak, Average, or Strong will be a short to longer picking time.
• Super will be a long picking time.
• Random will choose a random setting between Weak and Super.
• Infinite will allow the picking process to continue until it is manually stopped.
  • Stopping the pick on Infinite will still choose a random ticket and will not immediately stop.

The Speed option will adjust the animation speed.

• Default is 0.080
• Animation processor based since they are drawn by the CPU.
• Newer CPU’s will draw the animation quicker and you may need to lower the speed.

The Boost option allows for better dynamic speeds.

• As of this note; Boost is only available for the MagicWheel plugin.
• It will slightly boost the initial speed of the animation until it is 40% complete.
• Helps the wheel animation to be slightly more random as if being spun by a person.
• Turn off to have a basic steady speed reduction of the animation.

The Shuffle button will manually mix up the list so that tickets are not clumped together.

• The internal plugin list will first be shuffled.
• The GUI list will be updated accordingly.
• If shuffled, the internal list will be randomized.

Sessions

You can save and restore sessions anytime through the file menu.

• Session Save As – save your session as a pkt file (picket file).
• Session Restore From – restore your pkt file session.
• Auto Save/Restore – set an auto save/restore session.
  • The auto save file is ‘session.pkt’ in the current directory.

Reflection training

I wrote this application using Reflection so that the dll plugins can be dropped in without needing to recompile the application. It was also a nice training experience utilizing processes that I normally don’t use.

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