4.1 BETA

[stan]

Hi everybody,

you can find the 4.1 BETA at this URL:
http://www.expertlotto.com/files/beta/expertlotto.jar

It's a beta version and it's very likely to contain a lot of bugs. So pls make a new separate installation using the bare installation package and then replace the expertlotto.jar in the lib folder (usually c:program filesexpertlottolib) with the downloaded file.

important: version 4.1 is not backwards compatible with plugins for version 4.0.

please post all your comments and any bugs you can find to this thread.

the list of the new features:
* improved optimizer
* minimizer and minimizer II
* win coverage test
* position filters (number range, odd/even, number movement)
* number groups filter
* high/low filter
* first/last digit filter
* winning numbers statistics
* some minor improvements

most of the features are obvious and don't need any explanation, i hope . otherwise post a question to this thread and i'll explain.

i'll be posting new version as i implement them.

[Maryland]

Hi Stan, I must be brain dead because I don't understand your instructions.
There is no experlotto.jar file in the beta download. Now are you saying to download the bare installation of the original version then replace the jar file which I don't seen in the file you said to download as the beta version?

Tom

[stan]

ok, i haven't made myself clear enough:

- first download and the bare installation package from the main downloads section

- install the current version 4.0.11 into a separate directory, e.g. c:program filesexpertlotto_BETA

- use the link in this thread to download the expertlotto.jar version 4.1.0

- copy the jar file to the c:program filesexpertlotto_BETAlib folder

- start expert lotto and check the program version in the about box, it should read 4.1.0 BETA

[Trust]

Think i found a bug in the movement filter in the beta-
regarding the "Movement total" It does not seem to filter any
tickets at all,tried all sorts of settings.
Another possible bug in the "Minimizer 1"-reported "Out of memory"
with 7 tickets in the package.
If i tried with 3-400 tickets an empty message window popped up and
the program freezed. The "Minimizer 2" seems to operate OK.
I wish the program could calculate how many tickets it can handle
in memory in both the minimizer and optimizer filter.
In this way it could warn the user or refuse to calculate ( then the program freezes)
Another minor bug is when you load a ticket or text file-The open file
dialog do not show all files with txt or csv ending that is present.
I have to use option all files (Open file menu) to see all text or csv files.
This bug is present in ver.4.10 also
All the other new filters and statistics seems to be flawless to me.

[stan]

[quote=Trust]
Think i found a bug in the movement filter in the beta-
regarding the "Movement total" It does not seem to filter any
tickets at all,tried all sorts of settings.
[/quote]
found the bug in the source code and fixed it.

Another possible bug in the "Minimizer 1"-reported "Out of memory"
with 7 tickets in the package.
If i tried with 3-400 tickets an empty message window popped up and
the program freezed. The "Minimizer 2" seems to operate OK.
I wish the program could calculate how many tickets it can handle
in memory in both the minimizer and optimizer filter.
In this way it could warn the user or refuse to calculate ( then the program freezes)

the original minimizer algorithm is extremely memory extensive. it needs a lot of memory for the list of all possible combinations. e.g. when minimizing for 3if6 for 1-49 number range, it needs to build the complete list of all 14mil combinations. so the number of tickets in the package is not that significant.
the final 4.1 will be using the minimizer II, the original algorithm is now used only to verify the results.

it's difficult to calculate how much memory is needed. i'll try to improve the responsivness on 'out of memory' errors instead.

Another minor bug is when you load a ticket or text file-The open file
dialog do not show all files with txt or csv ending that is present.
I have to use option all files (Open file menu) to see all text or csv files.
This bug is present in ver.4.10 also

i'll investigate that. could it be an uppercase/lowercase problem?


thank you very much for your comments and pls keep testing.
i'll post a new build tomorrow night.

[Maryland]

Still a no go for me Stan. I did exactly like you said and I get the original version when I check. I also check the filters for new ones but they are the same too.

[Trust]

Maryland: If you use explorer to download the beta it is
saved as "expertlotto.zip" So use an external downloader and check
that the file is saved as Expertlotto.jar-then replace the old expertlotto.jar
with the new one.(Maybe as easy as renaming your beta download from
expertlotto.zip to expertlotto.jar if you dont have another downloader prog.)

[Maryland]

Your 100% right Trust. It does download as .zip and I couldn't find any .jar files in the zip file. Now to try and solve this problem. Guess I didn't explain it right to Stan. Thanks Trust I feel smarter now.

[Maryland]

Renamed the zip file to jar copied it to lib directory and Walla!!!!!!!!!
Thanks a million Trust, it took me exactly 3 seconds. In case someone is reading this you will get a message saying if you rename the file it may be unusable just disregard that message.

[stan]

i didn't realize that internet explorer is trying to be so smart and rename jar files to zip.
i use the firefox browser and i'm very happy with it, no such problems at all...

[stan]

beta 4.1 build 409 is available for download (from the same location).
here's the list of changes:

* added low/high filter and statistics
* added winning numbers charts (for performance reasons the chart shows the last 100 draws from the selected range only)
* added the column 0 to the wn history differences page, pls note that latest draw value is now "1" instead of "0"
* added an option to print & export the winning numbers statistics
* added an option to print & export the win coverage table
* added an option to select individual days in winning numbers selection for daily lotteries (this option is turned off by default, you need to edit lottery settings: menu lottery - manager - edit settings - edit labels & colors - winning numbers section)
* fixed a bug in the number movement filter (totals range)
* fixed a bug in the file open window when opening csv/text files (some files were not visible)

[stan]

just found two minor bugs in the statistics (due to the internal source code refactoring) so i uploaded build 410 to fix them

[Trust]

The movement total seems to work on all lotteries now-
however i converted a soccer result file to lottery numbers.
(You can also use Expertlotto to play on soccer if you convert
Home .Draw, Guest to numbers)
But the total movement filter do not work on this particilar game.
It is a game with 12 positions and 36 numbers.
The statistic in winning numbers for movements is OK.
Does it have something to do with the movement sizes?
Each position can only have a max movement of -2 to 2

[zz]

Hi Stan

Haven’t tried the new things yet but all the stuff looks nice and it seems the application runs faster now. Since you are looking for possible bugs, just to let you know if I add new lottery using the Lottery Manager and chose to load application with it , it says error while loading new application settings. After clicking OK it continues to work..

The second thing - if I use the AggressiveHeap, in the background all the time is runnung command prompt. When trying to close it it closes the application also. I don't mind about that , but is it supposed to work in that way?

At the end, it doesn't accept at least 1 4 matches when I have 4 correct. It may accept only 4 out of of 5 or 4 out of of 6.
BTW , what is the max number of combinations possible to cover? I tried at least 1 3 matches if I have 5 correct in the first 100000 6 numbers combinations, but it didn't work even if I have about 1GB of RAM.

[Maryland]

Stan, browse on the import wizard doesn't seem to work on Beta.