The Need? Software with a "Pro" rating.
Digital Scout needed professional quality baseball stats software. Their challenge? Die-hard baseball fans weren't about to give up the look and feel of paper-based scorecards that have been in use for more than a century.
The Goals? "Look" like paper & "work" like a Palm.
- Capture the complex rules of baseball & softball including special cases — and there are a lot of them!
- Automate scorekeeping and reduce errors
- And … make it easy to collect stats on the fly
The Solution?
A PalmOS application synchronizing through a 4D database "external" to interface with desktop system.
What's Unique?
- Interface designed to maximize info available on each screen— smart prompts guide users to enter data correctly
- Dynamic custom drawing controls optimize performance & user interaction
- Custom class libraries speed developing large number of complex screens
- Unified conduit structure reduces development & test time
- Higher-level tools reduce support costs & provides flexibility to accommodate new features
