ExamWritePad

[mavhc]

Had 1 report of a student pressing ctrl-z and the app hanging, they had to quit and restart the auto saved version

[ass17]

Had 1 report of a student pressing ctrl-z and the app hanging, they had to quit and restart the auto saved version

 

Hi,

 

Do you know which version of EWP?

Do you have a debug log for this specific exam?

How many pages had the student done before the hang?

I've test the version IM using and wrote 14 pages, and kept on press CTRL+Z, and even held both down. No hanging, so it could be all dependant on what contents were in the clipboard, images perhaps?

Without a replication step-by-step and a debug log, I cant start to trace it because the code behind the cut copy paste functions are literally just one line of code each, therefore likely to be a TextControl issue or a windows issue but definitely not a programming issue on my part :-)

Thanks

Edited May 18, 2022 by ass17

[mavhc]

22.05.11.1525

 

Do you have a page explaining how to get debug logs on your website? DebugApplication is currently 0, any problem setting that to 1 for everyone?

 

No images

[ass17]

22.05.11.1525

 

Do you have a page explaining how to get debug logs on your website? DebugApplication is currently 0, any problem setting that to 1 for everyone?

 

No images

 

In the documentation for the next release it will be under the heading “Contact ExamWritePad”, it will state how to turn on debugging, where to retrieve the log and how to send it on.

[mikes]

Is this software free or does it require a license? Can't find any purchase info but the software deffo looks retail quality!

[ass17]

Is this software free or does it require a license? Can't find any purchase info but the software deffo looks retail quality!

 

Hi,

 

The reason you cannot is because it’s free!

Yes free. Everything you need is in the documentation.

 

Welcome to the EWP family!

 

Hope it works for you as it is doing for hundreds of other schools across the UK. Just to let you know, there will be another version released over half term, with many fixes, it’s just going through testing now at my school and a couple of others.

[thimon]

the software deffo looks retail quality!

The attention to detail and slick UI is amazing. First year using it here and we're never going back!

[ass17]

The attention to detail and slick UI is amazing. First year using it here and we're never going back!

 

No pressure then to keep it up-to-date and relevant and slick :-)

[MrWu]

Hi still rocking 3.9.0.0 of EWP and been working flawlessly.

 

There is only one incident today whereby autosave was saving over one copy of the backup file (i.e. no multiple backups generated) checked the config file same as other Laptops, any advice? Was thinking of just reinstalling over a new copy of EWP.

[ass17]

Hi still rocking 3.9.0.0 of EWP and been working flawlessly.

 

There is only one incident today whereby autosave was saving over one copy of the backup file (i.e. no multiple backups generated) checked the config file same as other Laptops, any advice? Was thinking of just reinstalling over a new copy of EWP.

 

With that version being so old, I’ve forgotten how it was created and certainly dont have the codebase to help further, sorry.

 

Please upgrade to the latest version from the ExamWritePad website.

[10101010]

amazing app by the way : )

 

maybe i have missed this one - is there a way of automatically deleting local backups after logoff ? or do people just use something like delprof2 to delete the local profile ?

[ass17]

amazing app by the way : )

 

maybe i have missed this one - is there a way of automatically deleting local backups after logoff ? or do people just use something like delprof2 to delete the local profile ?

 

The default option in EWP is to delete backups older than 48 hours when launched. These are stored in the ProgramData folder so won’t get deleted if using DelProf2.

You have the option to script something to completely clean out the folder or manually do it, not that you would :-)

[MrWu]

With that version being so old, I’ve forgotten how it was created and certainly dont have the codebase to help further, sorry.

 

Please upgrade to the latest version from the ExamWritePad website.

 

Sorry

 

Was smoking something when I wrote this ha ha! wasn't version 3.9

 

it's version 22.1.11.1608, will upgrade to latest version anyway to test.

 

it happens randomly, so a different Exam AD account logs into the same problem laptop, it it saves 'versions' of the file ok...just certain Exam accounts

Edited May 24, 2022 by MrWu

[ass17]

Just a quick update folks,

For those likely to be using any version of EWP from this year (22.xx.xx.xxxx) for example, will have a issue that will affect the auto-saving and auto-backups from running.

 

The issue has been highlighted by myself and another school where if you open up the candidate information window at any pointy during the exam, not at start-up or you ask it to load at start-up, it pauses the timers for auto-save and auto-backup as expected, but when you close the window, the timers are not reinitialised and therefore stop running, thus no auto-saves or auto-backups. The only way to fire them back up and working again is to press print then close the print preview window.

 

This issue has been fixed for the new build out next week, and I appreciate its not ideal during the middle of an exam period but I've had a few schools testing this for me, as well as myself in a live environment and the results have been positive, no issues to so far...

 

I will be releasing the version this weekend and as always, please spend time doing your own testing before putting it into a live production environment.

 

If you wish to view the release notes of the next release in advance, the documentation is live on the EWP website and is updated live as and when I find something to fix or have made changes.

 

 

Thank you

[ass17]

What’s New/Fixed?

 

• UPGRADED: TextControl has been upgraded from v29 to v30, therefore Keyoti spellchecking has also.
  

 

• ADDED: **MP3 Player** – You can now play MP3 files from a specified folder or via drag/drop, removing the need to use an external audio application. You can disable the button as normal and preload the MP3 Player with a specific folder of MP3s using the config option ‘MP3Player_PreloadPath’. Take a look via the button on the 'View' tab.
  
• ADDED: EWP will now detect whether TextControl is in landscape or portrait when loading a saved ExamText file.
  
• ADDED: If you wish to skip checking that the correct Assembly files/DLLs exist, you can now disable that check via “AssemblyChecking” set to 0, in the ConfigEditorGUI.
  
• ADDED: Ability to disable the Test Printer button on the splash screen to stop students from abusing it.
  
• ADDED: Ability to override the printing font colour when using extra time count highlighting, so that the font colour for extra time text is distinguishable.
  
• ADDED: Support for inserting SVG images
  

 

• FIXED: When opening the candidate information window during an exam, and then closing it, the auto-backup and auto-save functions stop working.
  
• FIXED: When Clicking on ‘New Document’ there would be no way to cancel the action in order to carry on, therefore forcing you to save the existing or discard it before starting new.
  
• FIXED: If you inserted an image that was only just larger than the document width, It would not ‘fit to page’ via the right-click context menu.
  
• FIXED: If an image were larger in height than its width, it would not scale correctly when selecting the ‘fit-to-page’ option.
  
• FIXED: If you inserted an image that was only just larger than the document width, It would not ‘fit to page’ via the right-click context menu.
  
• FIXED: If an image were larger in height than its width, it would not scale correctly when selecting the ‘fit-to-page’ option.
  
• FIXED: The candidate information window was visible on the taskbar and therefore could be closed via the taskbar and via the ALT+TAB combo. This screen on launch should not be closed other than via the Save/Exit buttons otherwise it could interrupt the flow of the launch sequence and cause unwanted errors or messages to appear.
  
• FIXED: The windows keys and CTRL+ESC keys were allowing the Windows Start Menu to appear, these have now been disabled properly while EWP is running.
  
• FIXED: When inserting an image, it should auto-scale to ‘fit the page’ if larger than the page size.
  
• FIXED: If the quick formatting bar was visible and you moved the mouse quickly, it would stay on screen over the top of anything else that may be visible like print preview or sidebars.
  
• FIXED: On cancelling the question to restore a backup from the backup history screen, it would still try to load the restored version.
  
• FIXED: On restoring a previous version, when viewing the candidate information screen, some values would be highlighted in red even though there were values inside them.
  
• FIXED: Print Control kept on resetting the visibility to true of the preview document, when already visible.
  
• FIXED: Exam board dropdown, in the candidate information window, would not turn red in error if no board was specified when trying to save and close.
  
• FIXED: Subscript and Superscript were never high enough/low enough in character height or using a smaller font.
  
• FIXED: Using the Insert Image dialog, if you press cancel it would return an error.
  
• FIXED: When printing a large document over 100+ pages, a ‘No printers installed’ warning would appear, and the page count would not move above 100, thus no printing was achieved.
  
• FIXED: When in fullscreen mode, pressing F9 to launch the Windows Character Map, would result in the CharMap app staying behind the main window and not being accessible.
  
• FIXED: When the quick formatting bar is near the top of a document page, it would disappear underneath the ribbon bar.
  
• FIXED: The debug log would lockout and stop logging after the auto-backup and auto-save timers had fired their first run.
  
• FIXED: When inserting a ‘symbol’ and closing the dialog, the focus didn’t return back to the document so in some cases the symbol font would continue to be used when typing.
  
• FIXED: The text description on the ‘Choose Page Colour’ sidebar was editable and could be deleted.
  

 

• CHANGED: The Insert Image dialog window will now allow selecting any of the compatible images rather than having to select the appropriate individual filter each time.
  
• CHANGED: Each Messagebox control that offers a question now has a more appropriate selection of answers, that answer the question without reading it, rather than the previous Yes/No/Cancel answers.
  
• CHANGED: Candidate Information Window button text has changed from ‘Exit’ and ‘Save & Exit’ to ‘Close’ and ‘Save & Close’.
  
• CHANGED: The default margins are now set to 25mm as per MLA guidelines, and also by other popular word processing software.
  
• CHANGED: On the candidate information window, the text labels at the bottom have been tweaked to now one simple line instead of two.
  
• CHANGED: PrintFontSize config option has changed its upper limit from 72 down to 24. No need for anything higher than that for official exams. If you wish, for whatever reason, to override the upper limit, you will have to alter the setting outside of the ConfigEditorGUI manually.
  
• CHANGED: MessageBox dialog icons are more uniform and consistent. Also, the main background colour has been tweaked to an off-white to make it stand out from the main window.
  
• REMOVED: Schema Checking against ExamText files has been removed so that any version of an ExamText will load without issues.
  

 

How to Download

 

Via exwamwritepad.com website // Built-in updater // links in my signature

 

Disclaimer

 

Always test EWP within your own test environment and report back to me any issues you have, before releasing this into a live production environment.!!

[RLR]

Awesome, half term so will test it out today. Was running slightly older version but was risky with the auto-backup not always working.

 

The mp3 player is useful. Is it possible for it to fit within the UI or move the page over when you open the mp3 player? This might be due to the small laptop screens but the mp3 player box covers up part of the page. Kind of like how the Extra Time page works?

[ass17]

Awesome, half term so will test it out today. Was running slightly older version but was risky with the auto-backup not always working.

 

The mp3 player is useful. Is it possible for it to fit within the UI or move the page over when you open the mp3 player? This might be due to the small laptop screens but the mp3 player box covers up part of the page. Kind of like how the Extra Time page works?

 

Yep it will do in the next version as I did realise that afterwards lol.

[robintech]

My mistake, was not copying all the contents of the folders in PowerShell so Assemblies was empty etc

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Getting an error with new version was ok with previous one, it won't start so have gone back to previous version

Does work on my desktop computer though

 

Faulting application name: ExamWritePad.exe, version: 22.6.1.1000, time stamp: 0x6293b153

Faulting module name: KERNELBASE.dll, version: 10.0.19041.1348, time stamp: 0x76fcd692

Exception code: 0xe0434352

Fault offset: 0x0000000000034f69

Faulting process ID: 0x218c

Faulting application start time: 0x01d87593790aa804

Faulting application path: C:\ExamWritePad\ExamWritePad.exeFaulting module path: C:\Windows\System32\KERNELBASE.dll

Report ID: fb7aafc2-b836-42fe-b115-10727d01036b

Faulting package full name:

Faulting package-relative application ID:

Application: ExamWritePad.exe

Framework Version: v4.0.30319

Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception.Exception Info: System.IO.FileLoadException at ExamWritePad.My.MyApplication.OnCreateMainForm() at Microsoft.VisualBasic.ApplicationServices.WindowsFormsApplicationBase.OnRun() at Microsoft.VisualBasic.ApplicationServices.WindowsFormsApplicationBase.DoApplicationModel() at Microsoft.VisualBasic.ApplicationServices.WindowsFormsApplicationBase.Run(System.String[]) at ExamWritePad.My.MyApplication.Main(System.String[])

 

Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2019 Redistributable (x86) - 14.25.28508 Microsoft Corporation 14.25.28508.3

Microsoft Visual C++ 2013 Redistributable (x64) - 12.0.40664 Microsoft Corporation 12.0.40664.0

Edited June 1, 2022 by ittech2342323

[ste78564]

just downloaded to test latest version and cannot open EWP "ExamWritePad has stopped working" previous version works ok (v22.05.11.1525).

 

Thought it was due to my changes made to the json file but also get same error using unedited original json file....

 

Faulting application name: ExamWritePad.exe, version: 22.6.1.1000, time stamp: 0x6293b153

Faulting module name: KERNELBASE.dll, version: 10.0.17763.2928, time stamp: 0xb94797c5

Exception code: 0xe0434352

Fault offset: 0x0000000000039319

Faulting process id: 0x1504

Faulting application start time: 0x01d8798a1f1e6dee

Faulting application path: C:\Users\****\Downloads\ExamWritePad\ExamWritePad.exe

Faulting module path: C:\windows\System32\KERNELBASE.dll

Report Id: 8499e031-f0e8-4428-9027-182c4848808b

Faulting package full name:

Faulting package-relative application ID:

 

Application: ExamWritePad.exe

Framework Version: v4.0.30319

Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception.

Exception Info: System.NotSupportedException

at System.Reflection.RuntimeAssembly.nLoadFile(System.String, System.Security.Policy.Evidence)

at System.Reflection.Assembly.LoadFile(System.String)

at ᜁ.ᝂ.ᜀ(System.Reflection.AssemblyName, System.String, Boolean)

at ᜁ.ᝂ.ᜀ(System.String, System.String, System.String, System.String, System.Reflection.Assembly ByRef)

at ᜁ.ᝄ..ctor(System.String)

at TXTextControl.RulerBar..ctor()

at ExamWritePad.MainWindow.InitializeComponent()

at ExamWritePad.MainWindow..ctor()

 

Exception Info: System.InvalidOperationException

at ExamWritePad.My.MyProject+MyForms.Create__Instance__[[system.__Canon, mscorlib, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089]](System.__Canon)

at ExamWritePad.My.MyApplication.OnCreateMainForm()

at Microsoft.VisualBasic.ApplicationServices.WindowsFormsApplicationBase.OnRun()

at Microsoft.VisualBasic.ApplicationServices.WindowsFormsApplicationBase.DoApplicationModel()

at Microsoft.VisualBasic.ApplicationServices.WindowsFormsApplicationBase.Run(System.String[])

at ExamWritePad.My.MyApplication.Main(System.String[])

Edited June 6, 2022 by ste78564

[RLR]

just downloaded to test latest version and cannot open EWP "ExamWritePad has stopped working" previous version works ok (v22.05.11.1525).

 

Thought it was due to my changes made to the json file but also get same error using unedited original json file....

 

Faulting application name: ExamWritePad.exe, version: 22.6.1.1000, time stamp: 0x6293b153

Faulting module name: KERNELBASE.dll, version: 10.0.17763.2928, time stamp: 0xb94797c5

Exception code: 0xe0434352

Fault offset: 0x0000000000039319

Faulting process id: 0x1504

Faulting application start time: 0x01d8798a1f1e6dee

Faulting application path: C:\Users\****\Downloads\ExamWritePad\ExamWritePad.exe

Faulting module path: C:\windows\System32\KERNELBASE.dll

Report Id: 8499e031-f0e8-4428-9027-182c4848808b

Faulting package full name:

Faulting package-relative application ID:

 

Application: ExamWritePad.exe

Framework Version: v4.0.30319

Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception.

Exception Info: System.NotSupportedException

at System.Reflection.RuntimeAssembly.nLoadFile(System.String, System.Security.Policy.Evidence)

at System.Reflection.Assembly.LoadFile(System.String)

at ᜁ.ᝂ.ᜀ(System.Reflection.AssemblyName, System.String, Boolean)

at ᜁ.ᝂ.ᜀ(System.String, System.String, System.String, System.String, System.Reflection.Assembly ByRef)

at ᜁ.ᝄ..ctor(System.String)

at TXTextControl.RulerBar..ctor()

at ExamWritePad.MainWindow.InitializeComponent()

at ExamWritePad.MainWindow..ctor()

 

Exception Info: System.InvalidOperationException

at ExamWritePad.My.MyProject+MyForms.Create__Instance__[[system.__Canon, mscorlib, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089]](System.__Canon)

at ExamWritePad.My.MyApplication.OnCreateMainForm()

at Microsoft.VisualBasic.ApplicationServices.WindowsFormsApplicationBase.OnRun()

at Microsoft.VisualBasic.ApplicationServices.WindowsFormsApplicationBase.DoApplicationModel()

at Microsoft.VisualBasic.ApplicationServices.WindowsFormsApplicationBase.Run(System.String[])

at ExamWritePad.My.MyApplication.Main(System.String[])

 

Did you copy all the files over or just the exe? If any files are missing then it will have issues running.

[ste78564]

i downloaded the zip folder and just tried to run it from there after extracting as i usually do i did make changes to json file so re-downloaded it and left everything as default but still cannot open

[CHiLL]

i downloaded the zip folder and just tried to run it from there after extracting as i usually do i did make changes to json file so re-downloaded it and left everything as default but still cannot open

When you extract the files, all the sub files and folders need to be present in the same folder. I *think* .NET 4.8 is also a requirement, but I may be wrong.

[ste78564]

managed to find the issue it wouldn't open from my downloads or documents folder but works fine from the network share which is bizarre like i said previous version works no problem at all from my downloads or documents folder.

 

i can now test it and adjust the json file now it works from the network share location...

 

*Baffled*

[ghilasson]

Wondering if anyone has encountered and/or solved an issue where the backup files are showing no text despite the original having text in it?

 

I have been testing with the latest version of ExamWritePad and the backups are appearing (1 every minute) in the correct folder but every instance is just blank despite having written plenty of text in the original file.

 

Any ideas/help would be very much appreciated.

[Carrot63]

Hi

Firstly, thank you for this great piece of software, our exams and SEND deapartments love it.

 

I know there was some mention of this a while ago but I cannot find the solution. We often have Examwritepad hang on starting up. It may then start after about ten mintues or just hang indefinitiely. Generally we logon as an admin run it and then log off and back on as the exam user and it normally fixes it, although not always. This doesn't happen all of the time and it doesn't happen on every machine and I haven't found a pattern. Does anyone have a long term solution to this please?

 

Thanks