Manage Playslips
Menu
command Tools - Playslips opens Playslips window listing all playslip
layouts that are available for current lottery. Playslip layout is a
template defining how to print ticket numbers to paper playslips.
There are two types of playslip layout:
- Playslips
shipped with Expert Lotto - a fresh installation of Expert Lotto
includes playslip layouts for various lotteries from around the world.
Some of them were designed by Expert Lotto team directly, others were
contributed by Expert Lotto users (see Created by field in this
window). These playslips are read-only and cannot be removed from
playslip database. New playslips are continuously being added through
application updates. Out-dated playslips are removed through
application updates as well.
- User-created playslip layouts -
you can create new playslips or modify existing ones using Playslip
Layout wizard. Each of user-created playslips is stored in a
single file on your disk, usually in the same folder as the lottery
they are designed for (see File location field in this window). The
playslip files have .playslip extension. You can share custom playslips
with other Expert Lotto users. You can also email the playslip layout to
Expert Lotto development team to have it included in the next
application update.
The playslips are listed in a table
with two columns. The first column shows playslip layout name - usually
the same as the name of the lottery the playslip is designed for. The
second column shows the country the lottery is being played in. Click any
column header to sort the list alphabetically. The details of the
selected playslip are shown in the fields beneath the table.
Use the buttons next to the table to manage the playslip database:
- Make
default - marks the selected playslip layout as the default one. This
layout will be preselected when printing package tickets to paper
playslip using menu command Package - Print to playslips.
- New -
starts New Playslip Layout wizard where you can setup a new playslip
template for the current lottery. When the wizard is finished the newly
created playslip is stored in a .playslip file on your disk and listed
in this window.
- Edit - opens Edit Playslip Layout wizard to modify the settings of an existing playslip layout. When
customizing a playslip, which ships with Expert Lotto then you'll be
prompted for a file name to save the modified playslip to when the
wizard is finished. Customizing a user-created playslip just stores the
changes to an existing .playslip file.
- Add from file - adds a
.playslip file to the database. Clicking this button opens file browser
window where you can choose the playslip file to be added. You can use
this feature to import playslip layouts received by email from other
Expert Lotto users or downloaded from internet. This way you can also
re-add playslips accidentally removed by Remove button.
- Remove
- deletes selected playslip layout from the playslip layout database.
This button is enabled only for user-created playslips, you cannot
remove any playslip shipped with Expert Lotto installation. Clicking
the button does NOT delete the actual playslip file on your disk, it
only removes the file reference from playslip database. Use Add from
file button to re-add playslips deleted by mistake.
- Report as
out-dated - opens an email window you can use to notify the Expert
Lotto development team that the selected playslip is no longer valid.
This happens usually when the lottery commission issues new version of
paper playslips and/or when the lottery rules changes, for example
there are more or less numbers in the pool. This button is not enabled
for user-created playslips.
- Show extended list - by default
this window shows only playslips that are suitable for the current
lottery. That means the number of boxes in each playslip panel corresponds to the
size of number pool(s) in current lottery. Use this option to
display all playslips in Expert Lotto database. However if you
play e.g. x/49 lottery then printing to playslip designed for e.g. x/35 lottery means that numbers greater than 35 won't be printed out.
Note: Deleting any .playslip file using e.g. file manager application also
removes the playslip layout reference from the database on next application startup.