Survey Says... New FFPS Editor

[Joe Lourenco]

Here is a screenshot of a new survey editor for Todd's Family Feud Presentation Software:



I am about 75% finished. I am toying with the idea of including the questions as additional text in each Q*.txt file, just for reference. Or maybe I can have the program generate a printable cheat sheet for the entire set of questions 1-9. What do you think?

I plan to have it ready for download in the next week or so.

And I hope it works with FFPS 5.0!

Joe

[WesternEstates]

If it's anything like your Pyramid editor I'm sure it will be wonderful. I can't wait !

[hotchocolate]

hi Joe

wonderful job on family feud editor
can't wait to try it out this week
when it ready to download

you are wonderful programer Joe
;D

[jeffp]

Joe,

How about making room for material used in the Bullseye round (question for reference, followed by only the number one answer). This is so that we can use this editor with the currently-available version of the Family Feud (Combs) Presentation Software. And you can head the Bullseye section like this (and include the notation in parentheses):

BULLSEYE (for Feud '88 only)

[Joe Lourenco]

jeffp said:

Joe,

How about making room for material used in the Bullseye round (question for reference, followed by only the number one answer). This is so that we can use this editor with the currently-available version of the Family Feud (Combs) Presentation Software. And you can head the Bullseye section like this (and include the notation in parentheses):

BULLSEYE (for Feud '88 only)

That sounds good. I didn't think about making an editor for the FF Challenge Software. I kinda had the blinders on when I started this editor. I'll take a look at it and see if I can make this editor adaptable to both versions.

Thanks for the input!

Joe

[Todd Robinson]

Both versions of my Family Feud software accept the same text files so it shouldn't be a problem. Even if the Dawson Feud has Bullseye text files in the folder, it ignores them.

[Grey]

Todd said:

Both versions of my Family Feud software accept the same text files so it shouldn't be a problem. Even if the Dawson Feud has Bullseye text files in the folder, it ignores them.

Going further into what Todd said, even the variable names are the same for both.

Considering that both Dawson and Combs Feuds are pretty much the same (but with a different look), Todd did what any good programmer would have done and left the base coding pretty much the same. Good ol' KISS theory. So yeah, you can just slap on a Bullseye editor and run with that. Simple, no?

[Joe Lourenco]

I've made my Family Feud Presentation/Challenge Survey Editor (named "Survey Says...") available for download.

home.comcast.net/~jlourenco1/feud/Survey_Says.zip

I've also updated my screenshot (see first post). It's not flashy--similar to my Pyramid editor. It has a feature to toggle Bullseye round editing, and has an option to save a "cheat sheet"--a text file with all the questions and answers round by round, including Fast Money. This is, of course, for the board operator/host to print out and use during the game.

If there are any bugs, please post here, as well as any comments on the editor in general.

Thanks, and I hope it works for all!

Joe

[Grey]

I've already spotted a bug, Joe.

You included a subroutine that checks the sum of the total points during the single-value rounds, but either forgot or had something happen to that check for double- and triple-value rounds. Not that major, just takes a few lines of code to fix.

Aside from that, looks good.

[WesternEstates]

I haven't tried it yet but it looks very good.

[Joe Lourenco]

Grey said:

You included a subroutine that checks the sum of the total points during the single-value rounds, but either forgot or had something happen to that check for double- and triple-value rounds.

Thanks for finding that! I just fixed it. Please download the zip file again.

Joe

[hotchocolate]

hi
Joe

when finished all the question
bullyeye, fast money
click on save infomation

this what came up

runtime erors 76
path not found
this happen all the time

what do you think is causing this problem ;D
this program looks awsome
;D

[Joe Lourenco]

hotchocolate said:

when finished all the question
bullyeye, fast money
click on save infomation

this what came up

runtime erors 76
path not found
this happen all the time

I must have not written in the code to save the files to the same directory as the editor. I was working off my Feud Editor when I started this one. When I removed the directory folder that was in the Feud editor, I must have screwed up the subroutine that saves the txt files.

Sorry for putting this editor out there without thoroughly testing it first! I'll update and test the editor tonight before re-posting it on my website.

Thanks for the feedback, everyone, and keep posting my mistakes!

Joe

[hotchocolate]

Hi Joe

I glad found mistake in family feud editor because like helping programmer any level to
Make their program with less bug & mistake in source code.
It will just make program work a lot better
Hope it will be ready tonight so I can start second season question used when play family feud with my family.

[Joe Lourenco]

OK, I fixed the Survey Says editor so that it loads and saves the txt files in the same directory as the editor. I think the cheat sheet will come in handy too.

Please download at your leisure using the above link.

Any bugs, let me know!

Joe