entries in text boxes unclear + viewing race data

Hi

I'm brand new to SW, so apologies if these are rather basic questions.

.... When I enter text in say the new competitor box it is slightly
illegible, ie some letters are crushed together, some are greyed out.
When the data is saves it appears perfectly on the main screen.
For what it is worth I am using Version 1.94 Build 29 on MS Vista.Am
I doing something wrong?

.....To get some practice I have entered some data from a series last
year. Finish times were entered in the finish wizard. The race column
in the main series page shows the elapsed time, or if I switch to
something different in the viewing pane I can bring up start times
etc.

Can I bring up a page relating to an individual race which shows
start times, finish times, elapsed times and say corrected times all
one one sheet? Ideally so that they can then be published. At present
when I publish all that is shown are the elapsed times.

Thanks

Graham

On the first question here, I remember having the same problem with
Sailwave years ago on my laptop. I remember that switching Cleartype
off in the Windows display settings sorted this out.

Unfortunately I haven't got access to either that old laptop, or Vista
at the moment, so no idea if this is what you're seeing at the moment,
or if its possible to switch off Cleartype in Vista.

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--- In sailwave@yahoogroups.com, "bluewaterboatsuk" <gw@...> wrote:

Hi

I'm brand new to SW, so apologies if these are rather basic questions.

.... When I enter text in say the new competitor box it is slightly
illegible, ie some letters are crushed together, some are greyed out.
When the data is saves it appears perfectly on the main screen.
For what it is worth I am using Version 1.94 Build 29 on MS Vista.Am
I doing something wrong?

Message
James

Thanks. Clear Type off and problem solved!

Graham

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-----Original Message-----
From: sailwave@yahoogroups.com [mailto:sailwave@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of James
Sent: 07 January 2008 10:31
To: sailwave@yahoogroups.com
Subject:
[sailwave] Re: entries in text boxes unclear + viewing race data

— In sailwave@yahoogroups.com, “bluewaterboatsuk” <gw@…> wrote:

Hi

I’m brand new to SW, so apologies if these are rather basic questions.

… When I enter text in say the new competitor box it is slightly
illegible, ie some letters are crushed together, some are greyed out.
When the data is saves it appears perfectly on the main screen.
For what it is worth I am using Version 1.94 Build 29 on MS Vista.Am
I doing something wrong?

On the first question here, I remember having the same problem with
Sailwave years ago on my laptop. I remember that switching Cleartype
off in the Windows display settings sorted this out.

Unfortunately I haven’t got access to either that old laptop, or Vista
at the moment, so no idea if this is what you’re seeing at the moment,
or if its possible to switch off Cleartype in Vista.

Message
Please remind me how you turn clear type on/off I have another
problem at the moment that I believe is related to this and just want to check

Regards

Terry

[mailto:sailwave@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Graham Wilkinson

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From: sailwave@yahoogroups.com
Sent: 07 January 2008 10:58
To: sailwave@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [sailwave] Re: entries in text boxes unclear + viewing race
data

James

Thanks.
Clear Type off and problem solved!

Graham

-----Original
Message-----
From: sailwave@yahoogroups.com [mailto:sailwave@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of
James
Sent: 07 January 2008 10:31
To: sailwave@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [sailwave] Re: entries in text boxes unclear + viewing race
data

— In sailwave@yahoogroups.com,
“bluewaterboatsuk” <gw@…> wrote:

Hi

I’m brand new to SW, so apologies if these are rather basic questions.

… When I enter text in say the new competitor box it is slightly
illegible, ie some letters are crushed together, some are greyed out.
When the data is saves it appears perfectly on the main screen.
For what it is worth I am using Version 1.94 Build 29 on MS Vista.Am
I doing something wrong?

On the first question here, I remember having the same problem with
Sailwave years ago on my laptop. I remember that switching Cleartype
off in the Windows display settings sorted this out.

Unfortunately I haven’t got access to either that old laptop, or Vista
at the moment, so no idea if this is what you’re seeing at the moment,
or if its possible to switch off Cleartype in Vista.

The easy way… From Windows Explorer, click on <?> then Help and type “Cleartype” then use the second link, this gives help on how to activate and a shortcut to the dispaly parameters window, then click on …

Philippe De Troy

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----- Original Message -----

From:
Terry

To: sailwave@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 12:46 AM

Subject: [sailwave] Clear type font

Please remind me how you turn clear type on/off I have another problem at the moment that I believe is related to this and just want to check

Regards

Terry

From: sailwave@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:sailwave@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Graham Wilkinson
Sent: 07 January 2008 10:58
To: sailwave@yahoogroups.com
Subject:
RE: [sailwave] Re: entries in text boxes unclear + viewing race data

James

** Thanks. Clear Type off and problem solved!**

Graham

-----Original Message-----
From: sailwave@yahoogroup s.com [mailto:sailwave@yahoogroups.com] ** On Behalf Of** James
Sent: 07 January 2008 10:31
To:
sailwave@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [sailwave] Re: entries in text boxes unclear + viewing race data

— In sailwave@yahoogroups.com , “bluewaterboatsuk” <gw@…> wrote:

Hi

I’m brand new to SW, so apologies if these are rather basic questions.

… When I enter text in say the new competitor box it is slightly
illegible, ie some letters are crushed together, some are greyed out.
When the data is saves it appears perfectly on the main screen.
For what it is worth I am using Version 1.94 Build 29 on MS Vista.Am
I doing something wrong?

On the first question here, I remember having the same problem with
Sailwave years ago on my laptop. I remember that switching Cleartype
off in the Windows display settings sorted this out.

Unfortunately I haven’t got access to either that old laptop, or Vista
at the moment, so no idea if this is what you’re seeing at the moment,
or if its possible to switch off Cleartype in Vista.

In XP you do it through the Display settings. Either from Control
Panel open the Display icon (you might have to click on "Appearance
and Themes" first) or just right click on an empty bit of your desktop
and select Properties.

Then click the Appearance tab, then the Effects button. You should
then see:
"Use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts:"
You can experiment between "ClearType", "Standard" and switching it
off entirely.

If the problem is just that ClearType's looking a bit fuzzy or
something like that, you can tune it using Microsoft's online
Cleartype tuner:
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/cleartype/tuner/Step1.aspx
(obviously only works in Internet Explorer).

James

Please remind me how you turn clear type on/off I have another

problem at

the moment that I believe is related to this and just want to check

Regards

Terry

From: sailwave@yahoogroups.com [mailto:sailwave@yahoogroups.com] On

Behalf

Of Graham Wilkinson
Sent: 07 January 2008 10:58
To: sailwave@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [sailwave] Re: entries in text boxes unclear + viewing race
data

James

Thanks. Clear Type off and problem solved!

Graham

From: sailwave@yahoogroups.com [mailto:sailwave@yahoogroups.com] On

Behalf

Of James
Sent: 07 January 2008 10:31
To: sailwave@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [sailwave] Re: entries in text boxes unclear + viewing race

data

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--- In sailwave@yahoogroups.com, "Terry" <terry.home@...> wrote:

-----Original Message-----

--- In sailwave@yahoogroups.com <mailto:sailwave%40yahoogroups.com> ,
"bluewaterboatsuk" <gw@> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I'm brand new to SW, so apologies if these are rather basic questions.
>
> .... When I enter text in say the new competitor box it is slightly
> illegible, ie some letters are crushed together, some are greyed out.
> When the data is saves it appears perfectly on the main screen.
> For what it is worth I am using Version 1.94 Build 29 on MS Vista.Am
> I doing something wrong?
>

On the first question here, I remember having the same problem with
Sailwave years ago on my laptop. I remember that switching Cleartype
off in the Windows display settings sorted this out.

Unfortunately I haven't got access to either that old laptop, or Vista
at the moment, so no idea if this is what you're seeing at the moment,
or if its possible to switch off Cleartype in Vista.