Dear SW,
I am experimenting with NHC for Progressive Echo - as we have tweaked this for club racing I would like to use external spreadsheets.
SW looks for “SWHelper.exe” - I am running a very old laptop with Win7 - will SWHelper work with this ? I have excel.
All the best,
Boris,
I found that NCH3 works for me and the helper is running - so perhaps it is an installation issue on my side.
Hi Boris,
It should run fine on a Win 7 Laptop with Excel. What issue do you have?
Regards
Jon
Hi Jon
It most likely is finger trouble on my PC.
When I use NHC3 it produces a result (external debug)
When I try and run the same file with NHC4 (external/custom) , which is what I tried first I get a message
“SWHelper - unable to find , Please check you have it installed correctly”
I interpreted that as SWHelper not found - but it could be that I have NHC4 not set up correctly - I do not have values A or B defined and do not have Excel paths defined.
So I could be missing a step.
Do both NHC3 and NHC4 use SWHelper ?
The reason I was checking NCH4 was that I expect to need to tweak the progressiveness - as our club has tweaked Progressive Echo with filters so I may need to do the same for it to be “accepted” as a replacement.
Project for the down season - so no pressure !
B.
Hi Boris
If you want to use a custom template set it up like this
You can change the name of the Template to your custom one
When you are ready give me a call on my mobile and I’ll do a Teamviewer session with you to get you started
Jon
Ah - that makes sense ; sorry for not spotting that.
I will get some race data together and see what it does with regards to the handicap figures - and if needed I will contact you then for a starter session ? I would like to have a look to see if I can figure it out first as I have already taken up enough of your expertise and time !
Thanks again !
Morning John
I am trying this with some data from our system.
If I run NHC internal it produces reasonable handicap values for the races R1 through 4.
I enabled the external template as we use some custom settings for filtering - I did not change anything yet.
Template as used attached and the BLW file used.
If I run with the external template HHC3 I get a -2222xx number - as an underflow reported in some of the race results for races 2,3,4
R2 only has one entrant - which may throw things but R3 and R4 should be OK ?
nhc_trials.blw (37 KB)
(Attachment SWNHC3.xls is missing)
SWNHC3.xls is as per install - no changes ; the upload (sensibly!) is prohibited.
Hi Boris
If you email me your phone number jon@sailwave.com or give me a call on WhatsApp +44 7530 112233
I can investigate it but I tried it and it works fine for me
Regards
Jon
Many thanks for the phone call Jon - that clears all that up.
I am going to sit down with my co-conspirator next week and work out the finer points of the scoring - and then see how close we can get to our current system.
Many thanks again!
