<turbo-stream action="replace" target="content"><template><turbo-frame id="content"><div class="mb-2"><strong>Recent Notices</strong></div><strong></strong><h4 class="font-bold">I'll be making some changes over the next few weeks.</h4><p>Most of the changes allow phones/tablets work a little better. I've already made a few</p><ul><li>The pending game menu bar (Add Player, etc) compresses the bar buttons  into a few pulldown menus.</li><li>The scheduler (add players etc) compresses players to two columns on smaller screens. There is also a new button in the status line "Change Pays to {Sides|Places) that allows you to change the Groups pay method for this game.</li><li>Group setting page uses 4 wrapped columns. How the setting are stored has been streamlined</li><li>Wrapping has been improved on a few pages (Players)</li></ul><P>Not sure what else I'll update but I'll take any suggestions. Cell/txt number is below.</P><div>Steve Alex</div><div>334.294.6026</div><div>salex@mac.com</div><br/><br/><strong>2025-12-03</strong><h3 class="font-bold">Update - A new version of ptgolf.us may be coming in a few weeks.</h3><p>I finally figured out how to deploy the new version to a new server rather than a temporary scheme.</p><p>There are some details in  Discussions (link button in sidebar)</p><a href="https://golfers.stevealex.us/articles/10", class="text-green-600 hover:hover:opacity-70 font-bold">https://golfers.stevealex.us/articles/10</a><p class="my-2">The new version is at: (just click on link below. Might not of worked the last time and it has changed.)</p><p class="m-3"><a href="https://golfers.stevealex.us", class="text-green-600 hover:hover:opacity-70 font-bold">https://golfers.stevealex.us</a></p><p class="italic">It will change back to ptgolf.us/(group name) when finalized. </p><p>You can login, look around or whatever. The database is from a few day ago and can be updated/replaced.</p><p>Try creating games, forming and scoring. Any feedback would be welcome</p><h3 class="font-bold"> I have not received any feedback from anyone on my previous notices. I won't switch servers until I do!!!</h3><hr class="m-3" /><p class="font-bold">Steve Alex</p><p class="font-bold">cell/txt: 334-294-6026</p><p class="font-bold">email: salex@mac.com</p><br/><br/><strong>2023-12-28</strong><h3 class="font-bold">Paying Places Update</h3><p class="mb-2">I rewrote the code for Paying places to use PGA percents with four levels [high,mid,low,even] of distribution.  This really only affects the Gaggle group. The 'mid' distribution gets as close as I can to their cheat sheet using just math. </p><p class="mb-2">The code really needed rewriting since I couldn't understand what I wrote over 10 years ago! The default distribution and percent paid was added to Group setting.</p><div>Steve Alex</div><div>334.294.6026</div><div>salex@mac.com</div><br/><br/><strong>2023-11-27</strong><h3 class="font-bold">Paying places</h3><p>For those interested, I added a new button in the Sidebar a few weeks ago - Payout Sheet. It is basically a demo page that show what paying places would work. There are  various methods I've updated or added. </p><p>Paying places is somewhat of a pain if you have over 10  players. I have made some modifications that make it a little easier. The About button on demo page gives a little details on how the methods work.</p><div>Steve Alex</div><div>334.294.6026</div><div>salex@mac.com</div><br/><br/><strong>2023-11-20</strong><p>I recently upgraded to a new minor version of Rails (the software I use) and I had quite a few problems. Most were related to changes of defaults used in Rails. It took me a little while to find the problems and fix them. I released an updated version last week.</p><br /><P>Today I found a problem that after scheduling a game, I could't add a late players. I have not changed that code and a long time, but I found the problem and fixed it.</P><br /><p>This is just a notice if something stops working, call me I try to find it. Some of this code goes back almost 20 years and stuff changes.</p><br /><div>Steve Alex</div><div>334.294.6026</div><div>salex@mac.com</div><br/><br/><strong>2022-11-25</strong><h5 class="strong">Notices/Changes</h5><dl class="indent-dd"><dt>2022-11-25</dt><dd>I've added a new group preference <b>Use Autoscroll</b> and have set the Default to True.</dd><dd>Over the last few years I've been using a concept called <i>Responsive Design</i>. In a nutshell, things look different on a Phone/Table. This is done by wrapping sections of a large page so it fits on a Phone.</dd><dd>One of the things this fixes is a problem with my 2/3 column design. Most pages where something is being updated is laid out with a left column containing the update button, and the right column containing the form where things are updated.</dd><div class="flex gap-8"><div class="border m-1 p-2"><div class="btn-sqr-blue border border-zinc-100 p-2 py-0.5">Some Button</div></div><div class="border m-1 p-2 overflow-auto w-1/2" style="height:20vh;"><strong>The form that updates</strong><ul><li>Schedule game</li><li>Score game</li><li>Score Par3</li><li>Score Skins</li><li>whatever</li><li>etc</li><li>etc</li><li>etc</li></ul></div></div><dd>The problem is sometimes the form size is much larger than the screen and you have to scroll back up to find the update button, or down the find the last player/team.</dd><dd>Using Auto-scroll fixes the problem by making the form <b>Scrollable</b> but the left column doesn't scroll and remains fixed. A auto-scrolled section will have a small scroll bar on the right. If you have a scroll button on your mouse, it will scroll that section by moving it. If not, you can drag the scroll bar up or down with the mouse pointer. Phones and tablets use the finger scroll.</dd><dd>You can see how this works by putting your mouse pointer in the right column above (The form that updates). You should see a scroll bar.</dd><dd>If you don't like this feature, you can set <b>use autoscroll</b> to false by editing you Group settings. </dd></dl><br/><br/><strong>2022-07-12</strong><h5 class="font-bold text-2xlg">Scoring teams allowed negative score on front or back </h5><p class="italic">Someone entered a score of -103 for a side (using numeric entry)! That changed their quota quite a bit.</p><p>Added check if entered value is negative or not a number to turn field background color to pale red and blanks the input. </p><p>If valid number is entered the field changes to a pale green.</p><br/><br/><strong>2022-04-08</strong><h4 class="font-bold">Side Games Default 'in' option.</h4><p>I've modified scoring side games (Par3s, and Skin) to default to all players in the game.</p><P>You previously had to click an 'all in' toggle button.  Now all players are assumed in the game. If someone in not in the game, just click their 'in' button to remove them from the game. There is a Group preference 'default_in_sidegames' that controls this option if you want to revert the previous default.</P><p>I've also added a Discussions feature that is basically a Blog that probably won't be used! There is a link to <strong>Discussions</strong> in the side bar and some instruction on what it does and how to use it.</p><p>Fixed how group stats computed side games. It was only showing players on list if they won something because of how I had set if they were in the game. I changed that several months about, but had to recompute the amount for older rounds.</p><P>Fixed how groups who scored games by places (Maxwell/Gaggle). It was not storing the amount won correctly. You now have Team/Individual stats back!</P><div>Steve Alex</div><div>334.294.6026</div><div>salex@mac.com</div><br/><br/><strong>2022-02-08</strong><h5 class="strong">Found small bug in the scheduler. Form Teams button would not appear on first update</h5><p>I fixed it, but I have made a few other changes that have not been fully tested. I think all just had to do with look and feel as I migrate to a different style.</p><i>If you have any more problems, let me know</i><div>Steve Alex</div><div>334.294.6026</div><div>salex@mac.com</div><br/><br/><strong>2022-01-30</strong><p>I've upgraded the versions of the software I use to write PtGolf (Ruby and RubyOnRails). The look and feel has not changed much but there were major changes to how some internal features work, mainly javascript.</p><ul><li>Deleting things (players, games, etc) had to be modified to allow confirmations to function.</li><li>The scheduling page had to use a different method of updating changes (adding/removing players, deleting or change tees).</li><li>Searching for things had to be modified</li><li>Fix Group stats to show all Par3 or Skins games, regardless if you won.</li></ul><p>I've tested everything I could think of, but it was a massive change. If you run into a problem, let me know.</p><div>Steve Alex</div><div>334.294.6026</div><div>salex@mac.com</div><br/><br/><strong>2021-08-22</strong><div class="font-bold text-center">Request Feedback on possible new version</div><p class="my-2">This is more or less completing something I started a year ago. I kind of gave up on it, but over the last month or so, got it to a state where someone can look at it and give me feedback on whether to continue.</p><p class="my-2"> I've updated PtGolf to use a new version  Rails and Tailwind styling/CSS (stuff that make boxes, buttons, color etc). Some things may look a little different but I'm trying to standardize the look and feel of the application. All dashboards (top (buttons) on most pages) are now consistent.</p><p class="my-2">The test site for the new version is at:
<a href="http://golfers.stevealex.us", class="text-green-600 font-bold">http://golfers.stevealex.us</a></p><p class="my-2">I also tuned what the application looks like on a phone or tablet. It always worked half-assed on a phone in landscape mode, but I've tuned it to work a little better in portrait mode.</p><p class="my-2">I've tested areas where I made modification, but as I've said before, I have made mistakes. Contact me if you find any problems. I'll post "What's changed" list on the test server.</p><div>Steve Alex</div><div>334.294.6026 (cell,txt)</div><div>salex@mac.com</div><br/><br/><strong>2021-03-16</strong><p>I've update PtGolf to the latest version of the Web software I use (Ruby on Rails 6.1.3)</p><P>While there were no changes to how PtGolf works, I did have to modify some internal things.</P><P>I've tested areas where I made modification, but as I said before, I have made mistakes. Contact me if you find any problems.</P><div>Steve Alex</div><div>334.294.6026</div><div>salex@mac.com</div><br/><br/><strong>2020-06-09</strong><div class="w3-row-padding"><p>For TwinBridges, there is a Quota Correction?? button on the home sidebar that describes how it works and also shows current projections.</p></div><br/><br/></turbo-frame></template></turbo-stream>