tio tournament organizer

manual and readme

The main application menus allow the user to manage their event's data files and review helpful information about the program.

The File Menu provides access to functions related to saving and loading events to the local filesystem.

New: reinitializes the application with new tournament data. This does not need to be done when the application first opens, only when an existing tournament is currently loaded.
Open...: provides a dialog box for choosing an existing tournament file to open. Tournament files are by default saved with a .tio extension.
Close: closes the currently-opened tournament file and reinitializes the application.
Save : saves tournament data to disk to the last file location chosen by the Save As... command, or to the file last opened with Open.
Save As... : opens a dialog box for choosing where to save the current tournament to disk. This dialog also opens when using Save for the first time.
Print: launches a dialog for printing pools of a round robin bracket. A round robin event must be selected in the Events tab.
Recent Tournaments: shows a list of recently opened/saved tournament files. Clicking an item in this menu will automatically open that tournament.
Exit: closes the application.

The Tools Menu contains miscellaneous utilities.

Debug Console: shows a small window with debug messages from the tio runtime engine. For advanced use only.
View Stations: launches a new window showing each station and the match currently assigned to it. Can be put on a second monitor/projector so players always know which station their match has been assigned to. Only available when using the stations manager.
Edit Game Types: allows the user to edit the default list of games used when constructing the Game Type drop-down lists in the Tournament and Event editors.
Import Players: copys the list of players and teams from another tournament file (*.tio) into the current tournament.
Check for Updates: contacts the tio web server to check for a new version of the application. This check is also run when the application starts.

The Help Menu has links to information about the tio application.

User's Guide: opens this help system in a browser window.
Version History: shows a text file of the application's version history.
About tio...: opens a dialog box with information about the application as a whole, including credits and copyrights.