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PC Application

Posted: Sat May 23, 2009 4:59 pm
by easleywt
First, let me say that this is an incredible app. Extremely easy to use during games. As developers, you are phenominal, support and cost of the app is equally phenominal. Kudos for a job well done.

I regret to say that several games had past before I began using the application so I have an incomplete season in the app. Also, since I help coach a team, most games we have plenty of help in the dugout and I can spend the time required to input the game realtime. On some occasions, I have duties as a base coach, etc.. and need to key the games after the fact from the paper scoresheet.

For system upkeep and game data catching up, it would be wonderful to have an accompanying PC version that could send and receive to the iPhone app. I love my iPhone.... but.... I'm 1000 times faster on a PC when it comes to data entry. I have no clue what is involved or if there is any amount of the code that can be applied to a different platform.

For me, you made an incredible app. A method of utilizing my PC to catch up and key in missed games and port them to the iPhone would be a dream.

Thank you and keep up the fantastic developing.

Re: PC Application

Posted: Sat May 23, 2009 5:55 pm
by wolfrat777
I too would like the added functionality of adding teams and rosters, and even setting up the games on my Mac, then importing them to my phone for real time use.

Re: PC Application

Posted: Sat May 23, 2009 6:16 pm
by FTMSupport
We intend to have a web interface (which would mean Mac and Windows interface) into some parts of the system in a future release. We would not recreate the actual scoring on the PC (we actually think the scoring itself is quite fast on the device... even faster than moving a mouse and clicking buttons), but there are some parts we think we can enhance.

Certainly entering and maintaining rosters would be faster. Anything that requires extensive typing. We may also include some reporting / statistics features in a web view in the future as well.

Thank you.

Re: PC Application

Posted: Sat May 23, 2009 8:18 pm
by easleywt
Web interface sounds better than an outright app, more flexible and accessible. Certainly any enhancement that allows the activities less suited for the iPhone to be done on a full keyboard will be a great help. I agree that some things are easiest on the iPhone, others are not... I look forward to any and all upgrades... so far, all have been extremely nice.

Re: PC Application

Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 10:53 am
by dgwyn
I switched to iScore from turbostats, which features a rather robust PC application that connects to a Palm device. I happily left all that behind, except for one small detail I still need, and that's the ability to print a lineup card for the game. I need to have one for the other team as well as for the announcers in the box. I'm not about to write it out any more, so I actually have to do a lineup twice for each game.

Also, the turbstats.com product also had a corresponding turbostats.net web hosting feature, which allwoed me to quickly create a web site of each game and player stats. The email system is nice, but I'm also missing this ability, plus I don't know now what my teams standings are, as they're buried in the game manager on a game by game basis.

Re: PC Application

Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 11:30 am
by bsweetser
After you enter the lineups, you can go to the scorecard, email it to yourself, and print that off. It will have the lineup, along with room for someone scoring to be able to make lineup adjustments by hand...

Just a thought, as I'm not sure it is possible to print directly from the phone.

ben

Re: PC Application

Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 11:49 am
by dgwyn
Great idea. I'll give it a try. Thank you.

Re: PC Application

Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 5:15 pm
by dgwyn
I gave it a try but it didn't work. What happened was that I got a scorecard that had an emptry box score and no rows for players.

Re: PC Application

Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 6:26 pm
by FTMSupport
@dgwyn -

One extra step will make this work. After creating your game, go in to score the game, click "Play!". Now you can bring up the scorecard, email it to yourself, then click "Undo" on the game to go back to pre-game start mode.

You will now get an empty scorecard with your lineup emailed to you.

Re: PC Application

Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 6:31 pm
by bsweetser
I just created a fake game to try it out, and it worked fine. Are you using gmail and trying to just view the PDF using the Google PDF viewer? That seems to have an issue where no text is displayed, so you would see something similar to what you are describing. You will need to open the PDF with a different application, like Adobe Reader.

ben