Thanks Bill. Here is the Bug List item I added for that:

(18) Workouts for First time Starters. Workouts appear to not display, and the screen header is different from the normal Workout screen. The Workout screen does not ‘track’ with other screens when you change horses and in fact, no tab is initially selected in the 2nd panel when displing a FTS

Workaround: Click on the Workout tab when you are displaying a FTS horse and the workouts will appear.


(gotta have a conversation with that QA department...)

Bill Lyster points out that the Original Speed Rating (i.e. the one supplied from TrackMaster) showing on the Adjusted Screen is not the same as the Original Speed Rating showing on the Original Screen (both Past Performance and Analysis screens). In Versions up to V0.96.1, what is showing on the Adjusted Screen is the Winner's SR, while what is showing on the Original Screen is the Horse's SR. They should be identical.

For the next testing update, I have modified the Adjusted screen to correct that. During the testing phase only, I also added the TrackMaster SR as shown on Spec160 and as shown on Val2006 (for those doing Validator compatibility testing), so you can see how the numbers compare. In Spec and Val, the Daily Track Variant (DTV) is removed from the raw TrackMaster SR and each program computes the net SR a bit differently. In my view, the resulting net (TrackMaster) SR on both Spec and Val bounces around a lot more than the raw TrackMaster SR with the DTV included. That's why I chose to simply show (on the Original and Adjusted screens) the raw TrackMaster SR, as it gives a better view of the range of a horses final time ability, factoring in supposed speed of the track on a given day (i.e. DTV).

Ted

error message
 

Hi Ted,
I installed the update sat and then tried converting multiple files from different tracks without waiting for each card to complete. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME i TRIED THIS.
I tried to high light all the cards to be converted at one track, but couldn't get that to work. So I would click on the card click open, click update, and thenhit F12 and do the same thing for all the the cards at that track,then the next track and so forth. screen shot of error included.
shutdown program and restart, the card comes up but no info on the races as before, also half or more of the horses show no past performances. I have 3 0r 4 different screen shots if this one doesn't help.

Tom K.

screen shot #2
 

Ted,

This is one of the missing information on the races

different error message
 

Ted,

This is the last one on the Vista system.

The same thing occured on the XP system, I haven"t tried reinstalling on that one.

Tom,

The error messages indicates to me something to the effect that while multiple cards were queued up to convert, one convert window closing caused another pending convert window to lose necessary data, so it choked. Originally (2 years ago) I never wrote this conversion routine to queue it up to run multiple separate convert windows like you (and I and others) do now - I just gradually discovered that it worked and it was convenient to start them all running then walk away.

Tip: When running multiple concurrent Conversions, as an alternative to hitting F12 to return to the Desktop to click the Convert button again, you should be able to open new Convert windows by clicking the 'Convert TM' Toolbar icon, or using the shortcut key Ctrl-T.

I suspect your problem stems from the attempt to do several cards from a single track, each in separate convert windows. You should be able to select multiple cards for one track then click 'Open' to queue them all up and start running in the current convert window. The selected cards for that track begin with the last one selected and you don't click Update to start converting the queued cards - they just start converting. (See the screenshot below). If a card fails to convert (as evidenced by not being able to interact with it normally, or an error message), just convert it again - by itself. Try converting multiple cards for a single track (i.e. not multiple cards in multiple concurrent convert windows). If you continue to have problems with that, please let me know. I'm not going to put too much work into this convert module if we can get it to perform its job one way or the other.

When I rewrite this module (before final release), I'll do a few things differently, but with batched/queued processing in mind. And like the download module, and the individual race calculations, you can schedule it overnight.

Ted

Ted

I can't highlight more than one card at a track for multiple download.
I then tried clicking on one and dragging down to highlight for down load, and screen shot shows what I got in tb box now. CLOSED AND RESTARTED PROGRAM IT'S STILL THERE.

Keep hitting cap lock by accident

tom k

missing info
 

Ted,

Ijust reconverted and old download AQU17 and AQU21, and still missing the race information on the card sheet although now the horse information is all there

Tom K.

Tom,

To highlight multiple cards from a single track, start by clicking on a single card so it is highlighted. Then hold down the SHIFT key and click on a 2nd card, then a 3rd, etc. As you click on subequent cards, with the SHIFT key down, more files will be highlighted and when you finally click 'Open' they will all begin to convert.

In that file selection window, you can use the drag and 'lasso' technique you describe (in an attempt to highlight multiple files by mouse), but you must start by clicking on WHITE space, not on a particular file. If you click on a file you will merely 'drag' that file and the effect of 'dropping' it somewhere in that selection window will be to extract the contents of it (a self-extracting archive file), which accounts for the unwanted DBF files. (You can delete those files at your leisure, i.e. all the files which don't look like TAMmmddR.exe)

I recommend you use the SHIFT+click technique to select multiple cards. Again, I'm rewriting this module...)

Ted

Help
 

Ted
I got up to "updating" todays files thru Mnr ok. For some reason when I try to update tracks after that starting with OP Mnr keeps showing up in the window-the other tracks do not.

I deleted from OP thru Wdb from the RDSS folder and regrabbed the files using the auto-downloader. SAME result man. my screen is stuck on Mnr

Richie