WinVote greatly eases the pain of trying your best to do a good job of voting on the competition images. 

The program initially only allows the user to vote on the images while viewing full size.   After all images are voted on, the sorting functions of the program are turned on.  When finished, the user can then compile a voting form and copy it to the clipboard.  Then just drop it into your e-mail program and send it to the IRTC.

WinVote works with 8, 16 & 24 bit video modes.  Due to  palette switching, the program runs a little slower with 8 bit color.  Using 16 or 24 bit color is the best way to go.

See below for a screen shot of Winvote. 
More info and the revision history is at the bottom of the page.

To download a copy of WinVote (Version 1.85b) just click on  DownLoad , and save in a convenient directory or folder.  Then execute Winvote.exe to start the installation program. 

To down a copy of the spelling checker's main dictionary click HERE, and save in a convenient directory or folder.  Then execute speller.exe to install the main dictionary of 287,000 words.

1.  Fixed the voter comments save routines again.  The data was saved as Rich text instead of Plain text.

1.  Fixed the voter comments save routines that I messed up while adding the spelling checker.

1.  Added a spelling checker for the voter's comments box.

1.  Increased the size of the graphics buffer to allow for the changes in the IRTC rules regarding the allowable image size.

1.  Fixed the "Leap Year" bug. 

2.  Added a new form for "PopUp" voting.  This will make the program easier to use with just the keyboard.  This feature is designed for the "mouse impaired" laptop users.

1.  Fixed the Goto Artist's Web Page function. 

2.  The brightness, contrast and gamma function now work with  256 colors.
 
3.  If you have downloaded all of the ".comment" files into the work directory all of the voters comments will display immediately after your comments.. 

1.  Fixed the Goto Artist's Web Page function. 

2.  The brightness, contrast and gamma function now work with  256 colors.
 
3.  If you have downloaded all of the ".comment" files into the work directory all of the voters comments will display immediately after your comments.. 

1.  A new function was included  to open the user's web browser with the artist's URL.  The artist's text file must have a correctly formated webpage line and it must be currently displayed fully on ONE line. 
To use: click on, File|Goto Artist's Web Page

1.  The subject for the email is no longer changed to "WinVote Email Test"

2.  Sometimes the progress bar panel was left visible on the "Full Size View" window.

1. The user can turn off the Window’s default beep on a vote value change.

2. The thumbnails are automatically sorted on a vote value change.   If you find this annoying it can be turned off.

3. The size of the artist’s and voter’s comment edit boxes is user controlled with several preset values.

The behavior of items one, two and three are set on the User Options tab
on the Setup Window.

4. The "Home" key no longer swaps windows when editing the voter comments.

5. The thumbnails sort correctly when reloaded.

6. The thumbnail for the current image is highlighted with a red border.

Please Note:
  The help file does not yet include the above changes.

Fixed the problem with saving the voter's comments

1. An email function is added.

2. Switching between reading/writing and viewing/voting is easier and faster.  Also, more keyboard commands are added.  You can navigate and vote with just the keyboard.

Added a form refresh after the execution of the Enhance Dark Background function, to correctly display the modified image.

Fixed the problem of not recognizing 32-bit video modes correctly.

1. Two image processing routines (2 new)
	Enhance Dark Background
		The image processing routine for this function is designed to brighten dark backgrounds while increasing the brightness of the highlights less.
	Brightness, Contrast & Gamma
		This new window provides standard slider bars for brightness, contrast and gamma.
2.  Voting Progress (new)
	Displays how many images have been voted and commented on and the total number of images.
3.  Show Graphs & Statistics (new)
	Displays a frequency distribution graph for each voting category with the Mean and Std. Deviation.
4.  Image Rotation (new)
	Clockwise and counter clockwise 90 degree rotation
5.  Full Screen View (modified)
	A right button mouse click on the image displays a popup voting menu. To close the popup menu, click anywhere on the black area around the image. If your video mode is 800 x 600 or less, you will have to select a vote value to close the menu.
6.  View IRTC Comments (modified)
	When everyone's comments are posted on the IRTC site, down load them into the Work Directory and WinVote will display them for each image.
7.  More Comprehensive Help File (modified)
	The help file is complete and added to the menu bars. You may also press F1 to display help for the current window.

Added a menu item to sort the thumbnails alphabetically.

Fixed the date error on the voting form.  Number of days for August is now 31.

1. JPEG artifacts in the form of green pixels are gone.

2. The program can now handle a 1x1 pixel image.

CHANGE:
You may now close the "Full Screen" view by pressing the "Esc"
key, in addition to clicking on the image with the left mouse
button. This is useful when the image has only one pixel and
is impossible to find.

The program now displays the thumbnails in a random order. Each voter will have a different repeating random order.  When WinVote creates its data file, the system clock will be used for the seed to determine the order.

A search function is added to the file menu on the main window. This allows locating thumbnails by searching for text strings in the artist's comments. The search is not case sensitive.

The current state of the main window is saved on exit. When WinVote is re-executed it will return to the previous thumbnail, search type, sort order, window size and screen position.

The image width and height is added to the title bar of the full-size window. With small images the complete title my not be visible. To see all of the title, just increase the width of the window.

The truncated voter form bug is fixed. The program can now display and copy to the clipboard voting forms greater than one Mb.

The mouse usage is changed for selecting and viewing images.  A left mouse button click selects a new active image.   A right mouse button click selects and displays the image.   The program no longer uses double clicks.

A Windows standard close conformation dialog box with Yes, No & Cancel buttons is added.

Window functions are disabled while the thumbnails are loading.

The current ratings are added to the title bar on the full-size window.

The thumbnails automatically resequence when the sort criteria is changed.

The help file is more complete.  (Press F1 to view the help file)

The thumbnail scroll box range is expanded so that images can be selected, regardless of the main window size.

A new Seek Not Commented function is added.  This function finds the next, or previous, image with no voter comments.

The program checks to see if an image is already visible before loading it again.

Version 1.1 March 14, 1998 23:55 GMT (2 bugs fixed 1 improvement)

A line was added to the compiled voting form to indicate that is is for the Stills competition, not the animation.

I inadvertently changed the jpg file names to uppercase on the voting form, causing comments to not be recorded, they are now lowercase.  Chip Richards has also improved the IRTC software to check for uppercase.

The time to display the Full Screen view is reduced from seconds to a blink of the eye.

WinVote is out of beta and is an officially approved (by the IRTC  Admin Team) method for voting on IRTC stills.