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From: Malcolm Cadman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [ql-users] Election 97
> Just downloaded it recently. Nice program Geoff !
>
> Very instructive too :-)
Thanks. During the 1992 General Election it was used by a school in
Yorkshire.
Incidentally, when I first wrote it, a similar program could not have been
run on an affordable PC. It would have needed a minimum of a VGA card, which
in those days were scarce and expensive commodities. Pity the QL display,
which was one of its early strengths, did not keep up with the PC. Even a 8
colour 512 x 256 display, which I believe was possible on the Thor, would
probably have helped to retain more people as QL users.
> It would be useful to be able to show all the 'safe' seats, or all the
> 'marginals', etc, for each party.
>
Good suggestion, although may be more difficult to implement than it seems.
The safe/marginal information is not stored by the program, but calculated
each time a constituency result is accessed.
After the General Election I shall initially just update the results
information ASAP. Later I shall have to look at changes to the program
itself, including full compatibilty with high colour mode.
Geoff Wicks
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://members.tripod.co.uk/geoffwicks/election.htm
