*FRC Scout 2006 v. 1.1
*Application for Palm OS
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*Created by M.A.R.S. (FRC team 1523) member Carl Jalm, with the help
*of mentor Scott Jalm, using PDA Toolbox (c) 2005 for the 2006 FRC,
*Aim High
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*Visit our team's website at www.marsbot.org

Table of Contents

1. About M.A.R.S.
2. About FRC Scout
3. Using FRC Scout
4. Bugs
5. Contact Information

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1. About M.A.R.S.

M.A.R.S. (Mega Awesome Robotics Systems) was formed during the
2004-2005 school year by James Zachariah, an engineering teacher at
Jupiter High School. Our first year competing was in the 2005 FRC,
Triple Play, during which we employed the help of team 179, Children
of the Swamp. We ranked low in our regional competition at Orlando, FL,
but we made a comeback at the "Mayhem @ the Museum" competition in Ft.
Lauderdale, FL, during which we won first place. Our main sponsors are
GE Healthcare, R.A.O. Electric Co., Marine Exhaust Systems Inc.,
Jupiter High School, ASG Medical, and EDF Inc.


2. About FRC Scout

The idea for the FRC Scout application came from the dillema of how
to easily organize gathered information on opposing teams during the
2005 FRC (Triple Play). At first we tried writing down the information
on notepads and using the Memo Pad application on Palms, but neither
was very successful. During the 2005-2006 school year the idea appeared
to create an application specially made for recording data on other
teams' robots. Work began early in January of 2006 and ended on
February 8, 2006 (v. 1.1 finished on February 12). Team member Carl
Jalm worked on the application, with the help of Scott Jalm, one of the
team's engineer mentors.


3. Using FRC Scout

The interface of FRC Scout is fairly basic; input information on the
fields shown at each page and use drop-down menus for choosing specific
information. At the bottom of each form where you can input information
there are 6 buttons. The first, "New", saves the current record the
user is modifying and creates a new, blank record. "First" directs the
user to the first record on the form's database. "Last" directs the
user to the last record on the form's database. ">>" moves to the next
record on the form's database and "<<" goes to the previous record.
"Cut" deletes the record being viewed (the application will ask you
to confirm your choice).
All information pertaining to specific forms is located on the help
form that corresponds to it (press the "?" button at the top of the
form).


4. Bugs

The databases didn't sort their records exactly how we wanted. Instead
of sorting in numeric order, as would be expected, it continually sorts
in alphabetical order. An example is when there are records for teams
1, 179, 180, and 1523 the records, instead of sorting in the correct
order, sorts it as 1, 1523, 179, and 180. Keep this in mind so that you
Don't look in the wrong spot for a team's record.
Occasionally a blank record will be created on the "Teams" or "Team
Notes" form. This doesn't pose much of a problem on the "Teams" form,
since it just gets sorted to the end of the database, but when a blank
record is created on the "Team Notes" it gets sorted to the top of
the database and is shown on the "Team Table" form as a record for
team 0. This is easily remedied by deleting the blank record.
On the scores table when you select a certain team, instead of showing
gaps for the games they did not appear in, it completely disregards
this and shows all records of games that team appeared in without any
guideline as to what number game each one was.
On the "Scores Table" form, any scores entered that are over 99 will
not be displayed correctly. Instead of showing the whole number, it
only shows the first two digits. This is due to the table being too
small, but if it were any larger, we would not be able to fit all six
tables onto the same form.


5. Contact Information
If you have any questions, e-mail them to carl.jalm@1data1.net with
the subject "FRC Scout". If you cannot send through e-mail, send a
private message to MARS-CJ at the Chief Delphi forums
(www.chiefdelphi.com/forums).