Sail Number Wizard Hassle

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Last weekend I was scoring a large handicap event (65 boats). I used the
starting time / finishing time facility under Sail Number Wizard to derive
elapsed time for the various starts.

This worked well for the first start (Lasers - 0:3:0). However for
subsequent starts, the new starting time was not registered (remembered).
For each new entry, the starting time was shown as 0:3:0 and I had to amend
it each time. Occasionally a new entry did show the correct value, but next
time it reverted to the previous value.

I was doing the scoring with Sailwave 1.50 on an elderly laptop (P1 / PII ?)
with Win98. Would that have had an influence on this behaviour, e.g slow
update of a disc variable

regards,
Malcolm Osborne
Benoni, South Africa?

I also had havoc in results due to incorrect entry of no. of laps for some
boats, but that was purely operator error!

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Hi Malcolm,

Improvements WRT starts is in progress. Currently you need to set the start
time for one boat in each fleet; Sailwave'll then catch on when using the
wizard. The proboem with things as they stand is a rigid relationship
between fleets and starts; this is not always appropriate and the new system
decouples things; essentially so that you can define 'how the boats sailed
to get their results' and 'how I want to score the results' as separate
multiple entities.

Regards,
Colin
www.sailwave.com

PS: every time I send a msg to the SUG I get a bounce from the Royal
Southern Yacht Club - is it just me...?

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-----Original Message-----
From: Malcolm Osborne [mailto:malcolmo@telkomsa.net]
Sent: 02 March 2004 19:46
To: sailwave@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [sailwave] Sail Number Wizard Hassle

Last weekend I was scoring a large handicap event (65 boats). I used the
starting time / finishing time facility under Sail Number Wizard to derive
elapsed time for the various starts.

This worked well for the first start (Lasers - 0:3:0). However for
subsequent starts, the new starting time was not registered (remembered).
For each new entry, the starting time was shown as 0:3:0 and I had to amend
it each time. Occasionally a new entry did show the correct value, but next
time it reverted to the previous value.

I was doing the scoring with Sailwave 1.50 on an elderly laptop (P1 / PII ?)
with Win98. Would that have had an influence on this behaviour, e.g slow
update of a disc variable

regards,
Malcolm Osborne
Benoni, South Africa?

I also had havoc in results due to incorrect entry of no. of laps for some
boats, but that was purely operator error!

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