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Ted Craven · 08-26-2016, 04:44 PM

Listing of Known Bugs (or mis-behaviours ).

1. When you first install RDSS 2.1 and enter your TrackMaster UID/PWD in the Registration screen then click Update Registration Info and receive a success message (i.e. you entered a valid TrackMaster UID/PWD) - even VALID UID/PWDs are not recognized at first when you go to Download in the Data Centre. Instead -- you must first restart RDSS.

2. RDSS freezes/crashes after assembling more than 1 card of races (sometimes between 2 and 3 cards, depending on total number of horses across all races). Essentially, it runs out of memory

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Workaround: assemble each card in a separate instance of RDSS. While the first card is assembling, right-click on the Windows Taskbar icon for Rdss2.1 and open another instance. Assemble the next card in the new running instance. And on and on. You should be able to get about 5 copies of RDSS running, all assembling different cards at the same time.

3. Horses displayed in Analysis screens switch around by themselves! When running with a toteboard connection and one races is declared official and moves to the next race, the race you may be watching shows the horses from that new race (as prompted by the toteboard's moving to the next race). This does not happen if you are NOT connected to the Supertote toteboard.

Workaround: Per Mick's observation - simply just refresh the Analysis screen you're looking at by switching away then switching back.

4. When you open a race from the MyRaces Card Summary display, particularly (possibly) when you have engaged the filter tools to get a subset of all available races - the race you click on in either the Sidebar or the main (right-side) race listing sometimes does not open up the correct race.

Warning: when opening up a race this way, double-check the race header to be sure you got the race you were expecting.

5. The 'dominant Early horse' marker (red underline and right-triangle marker on Original and Segments screens for positionally Early horse - F / E / EP - who owns the 0.0 on F1 and 2nd Call Segments) - does not always work correctly.

Refer to: http://paceandcap.com/forums/showpos...45&postcount=1

6. Sometimes the Data Centre Convert process toes not completely or correctly complete the Convert of the raw downloaded Trackmaster data ZIP file to the RDSS database. For example, sometimes a horse's pacelines are all missing, sometimes designating them as FTS, or other goofy displays which are obviously incorrect. I will add an internal check for things I can check before calling the Convert process complete and successful (e.g. and automatically re-do the Convert to see if that helps).

Note: you CAN reliably create such an incomplete, screwed up Convert yourself -- just interrupt the Convert process for a card while it is running (and ignore the warning message that the card was likely not completely and properly Converted, and please UNCHECK Don't Duplicate and try it again ... ). Conversely, if this does happen to you - just follow that advice!

Refer to: http://paceandcap.com/forums/showpos...9&postcount=17

7. Entries Screen: shifts right-ward by certain unwanted keystrokes, leaving some of the left-side of the screen hidden.
Workaround: click on another Race-level Tab, then click back on the Entries Tab.

Refer to: http://paceandcap.com/forums/showpos...9&postcount=19

8. Data Centre error messages: Some of the TrackMaster related error messages which RDSS fails to interpret properly (per this long-standing bug FAQ: http://paceandcap.com/forums/showpos...7&postcount=17) still persist. Example: when you specify an incorrect TrackMaster UID/PWD, or your credit card is expired. (I thought I had fixed all those ...

)

Workaround: make sure you have the correct UID/PWD, and that your credit card info is up to date! Otherwise, refer to the complete discussion in the above FAQ.

08-26-2016, 04:44 PM	#2
Ted Craven Grade 1 Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada Posts: 8,853	Listing of Known Bugs (or mis-behaviours ). 1. When you first install RDSS 2.1 and enter your TrackMaster UID/PWD in the Registration screen then click Update Registration Info and receive a success message (i.e. you entered a valid TrackMaster UID/PWD) - even VALID UID/PWDs are not recognized at first when you go to Download in the Data Centre. Instead -- you must first restart RDSS. 2. RDSS freezes/crashes after assembling more than 1 card of races (sometimes between 2 and 3 cards, depending on total number of horses across all races). Essentially, it runs out of memory . Workaround: assemble each card in a separate instance of RDSS. While the first card is assembling, right-click on the Windows Taskbar icon for Rdss2.1 and open another instance. Assemble the next card in the new running instance. And on and on. You should be able to get about 5 copies of RDSS running, all assembling different cards at the same time. 3. Horses displayed in Analysis screens switch around by themselves! When running with a toteboard connection and one races is declared official and moves to the next race, the race you may be watching shows the horses from that new race (as prompted by the toteboard's moving to the next race). This does not happen if you are NOT connected to the Supertote toteboard. Workaround: Per Mick's observation - simply just refresh the Analysis screen you're looking at by switching away then switching back. 4. When you open a race from the MyRaces Card Summary display, particularly (possibly) when you have engaged the filter tools to get a subset of all available races - the race you click on in either the Sidebar or the main (right-side) race listing sometimes does not open up the correct race. Warning: when opening up a race this way, double-check the race header to be sure you got the race you were expecting. 5. The 'dominant Early horse' marker (red underline and right-triangle marker on Original and Segments screens for positionally Early horse - F / E / EP - who owns the 0.0 on F1 and 2nd Call Segments) - does not always work correctly. Refer to: http://paceandcap.com/forums/showpos...45&postcount=1 6. Sometimes the Data Centre Convert process toes not completely or correctly complete the Convert of the raw downloaded Trackmaster data ZIP file to the RDSS database. For example, sometimes a horse's pacelines are all missing, sometimes designating them as FTS, or other goofy displays which are obviously incorrect. I will add an internal check for things I can check before calling the Convert process complete and successful (e.g. and automatically re-do the Convert to see if that helps). Note: you CAN reliably create such an incomplete, screwed up Convert yourself -- just interrupt the Convert process for a card while it is running (and ignore the warning message that the card was likely not completely and properly Converted, and please UNCHECK Don't Duplicate and try it again ... ). Conversely, if this does happen to you - just follow that advice! Refer to: http://paceandcap.com/forums/showpos...9&postcount=17 7. Entries Screen: shifts right-ward by certain unwanted keystrokes, leaving some of the left-side of the screen hidden. Workaround: click on another Race-level Tab, then click back on the Entries Tab. Refer to: http://paceandcap.com/forums/showpos...9&postcount=19 8. Data Centre error messages: Some of the TrackMaster related error messages which RDSS fails to interpret properly (per this long-standing bug FAQ: http://paceandcap.com/forums/showpos...7&postcount=17) still persist. Example: when you specify an incorrect TrackMaster UID/PWD, or your credit card is expired. (I thought I had fixed all those ... ) Workaround: make sure you have the correct UID/PWD, and that your credit card info is up to date! Otherwise, refer to the complete discussion in the above FAQ. __________________ RDSS - Racing Decision Support System™ Last edited by Ted Craven; 03-08-2018 at 01:00 PM.