Elector Classic CP Parser Release Notes

Owned by Jonathan Schmale
Last updated: Jun 16, 2014
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2.0.0.23

  • Do a rollback of the in-progress transaction if an error is encountered while processing riding results.

2.0.0.22

  • Remove use of Xceed controls that were not Windows 8 compatible and could cause a crash of the application when running.

2.0.0.21

  • Handle changes to the feed format which set an explicit encoding of ISO-8859-1 and now includes the correct French accent characters.

2.0.0.20

REQUIRES FLOW FOR ELECTOR CLASSIC V 6.6.2001 OR GREATER

  • Use a UTF8 database connection

2.0.0.19

  • Handle the incorrect characters in the feed better.

2.0.0.18

  • Do not check for updates at launch.

2.0.0.17

  • Capture and record all errors when they happen
  • Back to UTF-8 database connection since we found a better way to read the feed XML without needing the latin encoding specified

2.0.0.16

  • Use Latin1 encoding to read and pass the data from the feed to the database since it is <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

  • Make sure party totals reset on each read and don't accumulate with each read

  • Assign each riding to Ontario if it is Ontario election data

  • Store preferences in ProgramData folder

2.0.0.15

  • Add check-for-updates feature
  • Add release notes help menu item
  • Add keyboard shortcuts to menu items
  • Don't set main party flags - this can be done via Elector Classic Flow
  • Remove code that changed incoming party codes and names

2.0.0.14

  • Fixed bug: error when trying to start reading data feed.
  • Improve logging
    • More detailed error messages
    • More details during populate database processing to show the parties, ridings and candidates added.
  • Allow PC to be auto-identified as a main party
  • Don't try to assign province names to ridings in an Ontario election.
  • Only set candidates as elected - never unelect candidates.

2.0.0.12

- change the contact us url
- test database button
- standardize help menu
- support for utf8
- support for modifying the datafeed urls in the prefs dialog
- change to support modified datafeed xml (no longer have candidate names in english and french)

(introduce bug that prevents datafeed reading)

2.0.0.11

- make calculating party totals more efficient

2.0.0.10

- support for changing the db name in prefs

2.0.0.9

- read total polls when reading the datafeed, not just during the populate

2.0.0.8

- on populating the database, correct some of the party names

2.0.0.7

- do updates on a transaction

2.0.0.5

- stop datafeed cleanly

2.0.0.4

- disable populate and prefs menu items when datafeed is running

2.0.0.3

- change the datafeed read frequency after a change to preferences change even when reading the datafeed

2.0.0.2

- have populate function always read the results file

2.0.0.1

- populate function wasn't setting incumbent

1.0.0.8

- after OKing from prefs dialog, i wasn't setting m_dbCommand with the new conn

1.0.0.7

- check sr_config setting to determine whether we update party totals

1.0.0.6

- added help menu items
- support for checking autoupdate field for ridings

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