When you start to work with lottery software then one of the
first one most
important task is establishing
a database
of current lottery numbers.
Very often this is a time consuming task.
Visual Lottery
Analyser provides the Lottery Numbers Import Wizard feature so you do not have to type
all the numbers manually. Using it you can import numbers from text file, paste text from
clipboard or import numbers from a game web site page and then parse
an imported text into numbers.
To open Lottery Number Import Wizard, please go to the software main
window and click the Import Wizard button located on
the ribbon bar within Lottery Numbers group.
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Welcome Window |
After the
window opens click the Next button.
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Select
Game Window |
Here you must select the game you want
to add the lottery numbers to.
(If you have not added yet your games to software then
please use
Games Database
Add
Game Wizard feature to add)
After you have the game
selected click the Next button. |
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Numbers Source
Window |
On this window you have to choose the source of your
lottery numbers.
There are three options to chose from:
Text File
Select this option if you have already some
text file with lottery numbers.
Paste From Clipboard
You can paste some text from computer's
clipboard a text wizard's editor.
It may be simple text or text copied from game's web
site that includes numbers.
Internet Web Page
Many lotteries has web site with pages of
current lottery numbers.
Select this option if you want to download numbers from
the Internet directly
After you have the source numbers type
selected click the Next button. |
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Text File Window |
This window will appear if
you have chosen previously Text File option as your
source of numbers.
To select the text file form disk just click the Open
button. A dialog window opens where you may select the
file on your disk.
Selected file contents
will be shown in the text editor. After you have the
file
selected click the Next button. |
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Paste From Clipboard
Window |
This window will appear if
you have chosen previously to paste some text from
clipboard
To paste the text just click the Paste button.
Pasted text will be
shown in the text editor. After that click the Next button.
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Internet Web Page
Window |
This
window will appear if you have chosen previously as
source numbers option
to get numbers from the Internet game's web page
Enter the Internet address into a drop down list and
click the Open button.
The web page will be loaded into software text editor as
text only.
After you have the page loaded
selected click the Next button. |
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Prepare And Clean Text
Window |
This
window ill appear always when you have got your text in
the wizard text editor taken from selected numbers
source.
On this window you can se a few tools. These tools may
help you to modify the text if necessary.To successfully parse text into
a lottery numbers the text must
be in the following of the following formats:
1. Date (delimiter) Number 1 (delimiter) Number 2
(delimiter) ...
Example: 05-08-2008, 1, 12, 33, 35,
45 where comma character is
used as delimiter
2. Number 1 (delimiter) Number 2 (delimiter) ... Date
Example: 1, 12, 33, 35, 45, 05-08-2008 where comma character
is
used as delimiter
3. Number 1 (delimiter) Number 2 (delimiter) ...
Example: 1,12,33,35,45 where comma character is
used as delimiter
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The window
the following tools, which you may use if necessary:
Options
Click the arrow button to open a list with options.
These options are used by the Clean command described
below to clean the text.
Delimiter
Comma character , is default delimiter used to
parse the text and convert it into a format used by this
software. You may use different delimiter here by
entering new one into a Delimiter text box.
Empty space as delimiter is allowed.
Clean
If text you have imported is dirty, have
unnecessary characters you may use this command to clean
the text.
This command will remove all unnecessary white spaces,
replace all character selected in the Options with
current delimiter, detect the date within text lines,
remove all letters from text
In the result of this command work the text should be
formatted and be ready for the next step.
Text Filter
This tool let you filter the text by the filter you
enter. As a filter you may use any character, word or
sentence.
Enter the filter into a Filter By text box and click the
Filtering button to filter the text.
In the result of this command work only those lines from
the text that consisting the filter will be shown, rest
of the text lines will be removed. |
The third group of
tools is named Replace Text and include
simple utility that allows to replace some text with
another in text editor.
This utility might be helpful to prepare text to the
format necessary to have text successfully parsed.
Into text box Find What enter a text to be
replaced and into Replace With the text
replacement.
Click the Replace button to replace one text only
or Replace All to replace all text in editor.
After you have the text formatted then click the Next button.
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Lottery Numbers
Validation Window |
This is
the last step before you add numbers to software
database.
Please review whether the numbers are correctly shown on
the window.
To make any corrections you may go back to any previous
wizard window by clicking on the Previous button.
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Numbers Order
Please select whether latest drawings are on the top
or on the bottom of list
You must select the option correctly to have the lottery
umbers entered into a software database in correct order
Append when Adding
If selected then new numbers will be appended to
existing otherwise the previous lottery umbers in
database will be erased and replaced with the new ones.
After you have the numbers reviewed click the Next button
to add numbers.
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Wizard Complete Window |
This window will be shown
after software finish adding new number to its database.
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After importing the numbers for
the first time you will continue to adding the latest
numbers to software database using other features.
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