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Re: Design Suggestions?

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On 5/2/2013 14:56, Henry wrote:
> I need someone to brainstorm with me about a very small project.
>
> I'm trying to build a small private application (or applet) to simulate
> a draw with a small number of tickets. It's for a club to which I belong.
>
> Currently, we do the draw with real paper tickets, purchased from an
> office supply place. Anyone who wants to purchase tickets indicates how
> many they want and paper tickets, each containing two copies of a 6
> digit unique number are torn in half so that each half has the unique
> number intact. The buyer gets half of the ticket and the other half is
> tossed into a hat or suitable container. Tickets sell for $0.25 each or
> 5 for a dollar. No one has ever bought more than 10 tickets for a given
> draw. After everyone who wants one has their tickets, a neutral party
> draws a winning ticket; the winner gets half of the cash raised by the
> draw (rounded up to the nearest quarter if necessary) and one book or
> DVD from a pile of books and DVDs donated by various members. After the
> winner has claimed his/her prize, a second draw is made and the second
> place winner gets first choice of the remaining books and movies but no
> cash. Drawing continues with each subsequent winner getting first choice
> of whatever books and films remain until all books and films are
> exhausted. The club keeps the remaining half of the money raised by the
> ticket sales. Tickets are discarded after the draw.
>
> I want to write a Java application or applet that duplicates what
> happens in our existing draw. I'm intrigued by Java FX and am tempted to
> write the program that way to learn more about FX but I'm more familiar
> with Swing and would be willing to go that way.
>
> I've installed NetBeans 7.3 and Scenebuilder but as I look through
> Scenebuilder, I don't see anything that looks like Card Layout. You see,
> I'm picturing this like one of the Windows wizards where each stage is a
> separate page of a CardLayout and you can go back and forth between
> different stages. For example, the first "page" is ticket sales and for
> each buyer, you put his/her name in a text box (or combo box) and use a
> Spinner to set the number of tickets purchased. Then you calculate the
> cost of those tickets and display it beside the number of tickets. Then
> you collect that money from the buyer. When you have collected all the
> money for all the tickets sold, you have finished Page 1 of the draw. At
> that point, you click a Next button and go to Page 2.
>
> Page 2 displays the ticket buyer names in a table or list. Beside each
> buyer name is the unique numbers of the ticket that person has
> purchased, e.g. 100001, 100002, 100003 or just 100006. (Ticket numbers
> are given out sequentially, just as tickets appear sequentially numbered
> in the paper roll of tickets.) At this point, a late arrival might want
> to still buy tickets or an existing buyer may want to buy additional
> tickets so it should be possible to go back to Page 1 and sell more
> tickets, which will necessitate increasing the ticket count for an
> existing buyer or adding a new buyer to the list. When that is done, you
> go back to Page 2. The bottom of Page 2 needs a button that initiates
> the actual selection of the winning tickets.
>
> The winning ticket numbers should be listed in order (with buyer name)
> on the third page. The person operating the program should be able to
> scroll up and down if necessary and simply reads the list of winners
> from top to bottom, stopping after reading each one to allow that person
> to collect his prize before moving on. All the details of that draw -
> who bought tickets, how many they bought, what ticket numbers were
> issued, and which tickets won - should be written to a file so that it
> can be easily viewed again at some point in case anyone wants to
> challenge the fairness (or the randomness of the random number generator).
>
> At least that's the way I'm thinking of doing this. Unfortunately, I
> don't see how I can do that in JavaFX since I don't see any equivalent
> to CardLayout there. But perhaps there is a better way to design this.
> That's why I'm asking here.
>
> Does anyone have any thoughts on the best way to design this?

I don't think you need card layout.  I see it more as a single frame 
with a button to add more tickets, a list of all the ticket holders 
names, with a name for each ticket they bought, and a button to produce 
a random index to select a winner.  You could have another button to 
remove someone for a refund.  Menu items for reports and clearing out 
the database.

knute...

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    Re: Design Suggestions? Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2013-05-30 12:55 -0700
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