Many thanks. The file was originally created with an older version of sailwave and upgraded when opened with this version, so maybe there was an issue during the upgrade…
Thanks for your help. I’ll take a look and see if I can fix it. Only one more race left to worry about so I can create new series files for next season from scratch over the winter, if necessary…
Andy.
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From: sailwave@yahoogroups.com [mailto:sailwave@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Huw Pearce
Sent: 18 September 2010 12:24
To: sailwave@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [sailwave] Order or boats when printing results wrong [1 Attachment]
[Attachment(s) from Huw Pearce included below]
Andy & Malcolm,
I have created from scratch a Sailwave series (attached), which I think is set up in exactly the same way as the file Andy attached to an earlier message in this thread.
When I publish results, it gives me
This would seem to suggest that the .BLW file is corrupted in some way, which throws things out. I have seen something similar in regards to names in the Class or Fleet fields, with non-printable characters. I solved this by editing the .BLW file in Notepad, but not knowing where any such corruption might be it is not possible to suggest what to edit and where. Always need to be very careful editing a .BLW file in Notepad or other ASCII text editor and never do so it a word processor like Microsoft Word or even Wordpad.
I hope this reply is helpful.
Kind regards,
Huw
At Hayling Island scoring Laser Masters World Championships
On 18/09/2010 11:24, Huw Pearce wrote:
Malcolm,
I have just redone the calculations on Andy’s file and I am now getting what Andy and you described; but when I answered I got the expected order for individual race. So yes there seems to be a funny going on. Um…
Kind regards,
Huw
On 18/09/2010 10:52, Malcolm Osborne wrote:
Andy is trying to get his results to show in the way the vast majority would expect, i.e. the series results to be ordered in ascending order of Nett points and for an individual race the result to be ordered in ascending order of finishing position across the line or corrected time if a handicap system used.
I have an example series with Gold, Silver & Bronze fleets (no ratings) - publishing these results on fleet with race tables functions correctly.
It looks like its going wrong when handicaps are in the equation (IRC in Andy’s example). In one of SW’s example series (elapsed.blw - from Mumbles YC, Darts and other Cats), one of the races shows incorrectly.
Sailwave isn’t functioning (in these cases) in the expected manner - a race being published in a 3, 4, 1, 2 order is odd!
regards,
Malcolm Osborne
Sedgefield, South Africa
----- Original Message -----
From: Huw Pearce
To: sailwave@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2010 9:46 AM
Subject: Re: [sailwave] Order or boats when printing results wrong
Hi Andy,
What you are trying to achieve is not possible in Sailwave, at least currently.
This is the first time I have come across the way of presenting the results that you are after. To achieve your requirement will need putting the information into something like a spreadsheet and doing a manual sort on the individual race results.
In my personal view the there is nothing wrong with the presentation from Sailwave, it just does not present them in the way you would like. It was a design choice and, I would say is what the vast majority would expect, i.e. the series results to be ordered in ascending order of Nett points and for an individual race the result to be ordered in ascending order of finishing position across the line or corrected time if a handicap system used.
Kind regards,
Huw
On 17/09/2010 23:22, Malcolm Osborne wrote:
Right - I can see the problem, but havn’t found a way to correct it.
Has anyone else had a look?
regards,
Malcolm Osborne
Sedgefield, South Africa
----- Original Message -----
From: Andy Dennis
To: sailwave@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, September 17, 2010 2:43 AM
Subject: RE: [sailwave] Order or boats when printing results wrong [1 Attachment]
Ok thanks,
Here is an older file with 3 races in the series (not at club atm). This seems to order correctly when reporting the series. The PY Race results are ok, but the order of the IRC fleet for races is not correct.
Regards,
Andy.
From: s ailwave@yahoogroups.com [mailto:sailwave@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Malcolm Osborne
Sent: 17 September 2010 00:50
To: sailwave@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [sailwave] Order or boats when printing results wrong
Andy,
With my v2.02 b5, Sailwave works the way you want it.
Perhaps you could email your blw file to this group - we can see if it works on our side, or if there’s something wrong somewhere?
;
regards,
Malcolm Osborne
Sedgefield, South Africa
----- Original Message -----
From: Andy Dennis
To: sailwave@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 7:44 PM
Subject: RE: [sailwave] Order or boats when printing results wrong
Hi Malcolm,
I’m printing the series and individual race results. I want the leader on the series to be at the top of the series table and the leader of each race to be at the top of each of the race results for each fleet. I am aware of the two column ordering for displaying the results in the application and it appears to not impact on how the results are printed. I know this used to not be a problem as in older versions it was fine. Something seems to have changed. However I did have to prin t race and series results separately so that ordering was correct.
Andy.
From: sailwave@yahoogroups.com [mailto:sailwave@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Malcolm Osborne
Sent: 16 September 2010 01:06
To: sailwave@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [sailwave] Order or boats when printing results wrong
I’m not sure what you are wanting - the leading boat in the last race isn’t necessarily the leading boat in the series.
If you click on the column of the last race, this will sort everyone on that race (race winner on top), but the series leader may be further down.
Are you printing individual race tables?
regards,
Malcolm Osborne
Sedgefield, South Africa
----- Original Message -----
From: Andy Dennis
To: sailwave@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 1:04 AM
Subject: [sailwave] Order or boats when printing results wrong
I have the current version and have a really annoying problem with the results not printing in the correct order. I have two fleets (IRC and PY).&nbs p; I want to be able to print the series results to date with the last race run and have the results print such that the leading boat in both the race and series results is at the top with the positions decrementing below accord ingly. I have tried ordering using the CTL and CTL+SHFT selections, tried without it after scoring – and don’t get the above. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Andy.
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