screenshot: JCapper2007 Main Module (demo version)

 

 

JCapper Main Module

 

 

General Overview

 

Demo Version License

The Demo Version is designed to give you every chance to evaluate the power and effectiveness that JCapper2007 has to offer – and to allow you to see for yourself whether or not JCapper2007 is right for you.

 

With a JCapepr2007 Demo, you can download and unzip data and results files, Build a Database using your data and results files, run simple and complex queries against your database, and create your own User Defined Models or UDMs. You can test your UDMs against your database by running them through the Data Window. However, a Demo Version license does not allow you to run and view same day race reports. That privilege is reserved for Registered JCapper Program Owners only. At any time, should you decide to become a Registered JCapper Program Owner, contact me. I will be more than happy to activate your user account (usually within 24 hours) so that you can run and view same day race reports.

 

The JCapper Demo Version comes with a free license good through the expiration date shown on the Main Module screen. The Demo Version will stop running (self expire) after the expiration date shown on the face of the screen. If for some reason, perhaps due to a busy work schedule or something similar,  you do not get the chance to really evaluate the Demo Version during this time period, please contact me. Requests for Demo Version time extensions are handled on a case by case basis.

 

JCapper is copyrighted software. The Demo Version License is a single user license for a single computer only. No portion of any of the JCapper modules may be reproduced or redistributed in any manner whatsoever without the program author's expressed written permission.

 

The JCapper Modules

The JCapper Main Module is designed to provide the user an interface to running each of the modules that, collectively, make up the JCapper program as a whole. Each JCapper module can be launched either by clicking the button for that module or by clicking the menu item for that module from the pull down menu located on the upper left hand corner of the Main Module Screen. The location of the buttons and menu items are placed on the screen according to the natural sequence of events that players would logically follow to perform the individual tasks needed to use handicapping software as a tool for playing the races each day.

 

The following table lists out each JCapper Module along with a brief description of the task it was designed to perform:

 

            Module                                  Task Description

                File Downloader                   Downloading, Unzipping, and Loading Data Files

                File Unzipper                         Finding and Unzipping Files At Will

Card Loader                          Loading Data Files for Today's Races

                Manual Changes                  Manually entry of Scratches and Races Taken Off the Turf

                Scratch Parser                       Importing Scratches directly from the Bris scratches web page

                Scratch Bot                           Browsing and importing scratches and changes

                Profile Marker                       Identification of Horses that fit UDM Definitions

                HTML Report Builder         Creation of Reports

                Report Viewer                       Viewing and Printing of Reports

                Live Play Module                 Live Odds Play or Pass Decision Making

                Dutching Tool                      Calculation of Dutch Win Bets

                Workfile Builder                   Matching of Data Files to Results Files

                Results File Importer           Merging of Results Files into the Database

                Database Builder                  Database Creation from Data and Results Files

                Quick Index Extract              Creation of Quick Index Files

                Data Window                       Performing Research/Querying the Database

                UDM Wizard                        Creating and Editing User Defined Models (UDMs)

                Profile Table Interface         Creating and Editing User Defined Models (UDMs)

                System Settings                   Storing System Settings

 

 

 

Buttons on the Main Module

Each of the buttons on the face of the JCapper Main Module will launch the module that corresponds to the name displayed on the face of the button. The buttons located in the left side button stack of the Main Module are associated with the day to day tasks needed to compile information needed for looking at today's races. The buttons on the right side button stack, with the exception of the Dutching Tool button, are associated with performing those tasks related to creating and maintaining a database.

 

The following table details the button name to the Module(s) that are launched when the button is clicked.

 

            Left Side Button Stack

 

                Button                                    Module/Routine

                File Downloader                   File Downloader is launched

                File Unzipper                         File Unzipper is launched

Card Loader                          Card Loader is launched

                Clear Export File                   Export File is cleared

                Manual Changes                  Manual Changes Module is launched

                Scratch Parser                       Scratch Parser is launched

                Scratch Bot                           Scratch Bot is started

                Calculate Races                    The following tasks are fired in sequence:

                                                                   *Export File is created

                                                                   *Profile Marker is launched and run

                                                                   *HTML Report Builder is launched and run

                Build Export File                   Export File is created

                Profile Marker                       Profile Marker is launched

                HTML Report Builder         HTML Report Builder is launched

                Report Viewer                       Report Viewer is launched

 

               

                Right Side Button Stack

 

                Button                                    Module/Routine

                Help Documents                  Help Doc Viewer is launched

                Live Play Module                 Live Play Module is launched

Dutching Tool                      Dutching Tool is launched

                Build Database                     The following tasks are fired in sequence:

                                                                   *Workfile Builder is launched and run

                                                                   *Results File Importer is launched and run

                                                                   *Database Builder is launched

                                                                   *PlayList File is created

                Create PlayList File              PlayList File is created

                Quick Index Extract              Quick Index File Extract Module is launched

                Data Window                       Data Window is launched

                UDM Wizard                        UDM Wizard is launched

                Profile Table Interface         Profile Table Interface is launched

                System Settings                   System Settings Interface is launched

 

 

*Auto Sequencing

The Calculate Races button, when clicked, creates an Auto Sequence where multiple modules are called and run. To calculate races after getting scratches, it is necessary only to click the Calculate Races button. Doing so will create the Export File and launch and run both the Profile Marker and the HTML Report Builder. The Calculate Races button and Auto Sequencing was added in September 2004 to make JCapper easier to use.

 

Use of the individual Create Export File, Profile Marker, and HTML Report Builder buttons is no longer really necessary. The original separate buttons, however, remain on the Main Module Screen to accommodate those users who became accustomed to them and who still prefer to use them separately