Problem saving filters

[Trust]

Hi!
Recently i was making a group filter with a lot of "match numbers"
inputs-then i observed that expertlottos user windows seemed to respond
more slowly for each filter i saved to the database.

Suddenly the program freezed while saving a filter,so i had to shut it down with the task manager-the result was of course that the filter database now was empty.
Could this be a memory problem? This happened twice,but now i had a backup of the filter map.
The problem seems to occure only when making lot of single filters for
a compound/group.
Anyway it could be nice if the program could autobackup the filterdatabase
by itself?

[stan]

i'll try to reproduce and fix the problem.

btw, how many is 'a lot'?

[Trust]

I was making a "match numbers" filter of all rows in the history
differences - so about 10 rows in each column x 11 columns if
you put them in a group.

[stan]

i tried a compound filter with 100+ parts and it was working fine for me.
it shouldn't be a memory related problem (unless there's a very nasty memory leak in the application that i don't know about).

can you please create such a big filter again and email it to me? thanks.

[Trust]

I still have problems with saving /updating filters-i noticed that
the javaw.exe file is growing bigger for each time i save to the
database.When it reaches a size of 95000 to 98000kb the program
freeze.Is this maybe related to the problem?

[stan]

i'm still investigating this problem. there's no fix for it in the latest release.

one solution could be to have a separate set of filters for each lottery to save on memory and load/save time. but maybe i'll come up with something better.

[Trust]

OK
BTW i found out that it helps a lot to not have a big package
loaded while i update /save large filters.

[stan]

i have a database of over 70 filters that have many sub-filters and still have no problems saving it to disk when adding new filters.

there's a better visual feedback in the latest build so you should see how the filters are saved.

i also strongly recommend running expert lotto with the '-server' switch. the first time i save my filters it takes about 3 seconds, second time only one second, third time is almost instantenous.
you will get a major speed up in other application's functions. search this forum for '-server' for more details.

the problem is that application's online update does not download new executables that have this switch built in. maybe you can download the complete installation package, make a new installation to a special directory and then copy .exe file to your current expert lotto installation.