RLR Posted January 13, 2017 Posted January 13, 2017 With version 2.0.7.7 I cat get it to do what you describe. I created a 4 page document and while I was typing when manual saving and auto-saving it always stays and doesn't move. So if the cursor was at the bottom of the window, this is where it says and doesn't jump. Also nowhere in my code does it state to jump the writing window, so really cant do much at the moment, no-one else has reported this either, I'm scratching my head with this one sorry!! Hmm. Can you try create a document which has a few pages. Scroll to about the middle of a document and put the writing cursor on a line in the middle of the page (so you have room to scroll up and down). When you click save, the line that the writing cursor is on jumps to the top. If you still can't get it to happen it must be me.
ass17 Posted January 13, 2017 Author Posted January 13, 2017 Hmm. Can you try create a document which has a few pages. Scroll to about the middle of a document and put the writing cursor on a line in the middle of the page (so you have room to scroll up and down). When you click save, the line that the writing cursor is on jumps to the top. If you still can't get it to happen it must be me. I couldnt replicate the issue sorry.
ass17 Posted January 13, 2017 Author Posted January 13, 2017 2.0.7.8 Fixed - Stopped all the text being highlighted when it saving/auto-saving. 2.0.7.9 Changed - Exam Board entry box has now been converted to a drop-down list to keep the character case consistent. Therefore new Boards will need to be added in your config file if they don't appear. 2.0.8.0 Changed - Previous version screen text box is now displayed using the screenfont chosen in config file and the page width replicates that of A4 size paper. Download link below: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2Rz5d6Ck6CCWnJUdXB2ZGRQQjQ/view?usp=sharing 1
RLR Posted January 16, 2017 Posted January 16, 2017 Great work. The jumping I was talking about previously isn't happening anymore. A couple of things: A few exams have printed with incorrect page numbers. Sometimes it will be 3 pages long but say 3/5 pages in the footer which is confusing the student/invigilator. One time it has said 3/0 pages which is more bizarre. Not sure what is causing this. One student was told to do their mock exam so that 1 section was on one page and the other section was on a separate page but the software doesn't allow page breaks. This isn't major and don't think will be an issue in the real thing.
ass17 Posted January 16, 2017 Author Posted January 16, 2017 Great work. The jumping I was talking about previously isn't happening anymore. A couple of things: A few exams have printed with incorrect page numbers. Sometimes it will be 3 pages long but say 3/5 pages in the footer which is confusing the student/invigilator. One time it has said 3/0 pages which is more bizarre. Not sure what is causing this. One student was told to do their mock exam so that 1 section was on one page and the other section was on a separate page but the software doesn't allow page breaks. This isn't major and don't think will be an issue in the real thing. I will look into the page number again as I thought I had solved this. I can't do page breaks with the rich edit component, maybe if enough people donated I could by a commercial control that has all the bell and whistles and is more flexible, nudge nudge wink wink [emoji6]
ass17 Posted January 16, 2017 Author Posted January 16, 2017 One student was told to do their mock exam so that 1 section was on one page and the other section was on a separate page but the software doesn't allow page breaks. This isn't major and don't think will be an issue in the real thing. Well I've outdone myself this time, YES I can insert page breaks but it would appear on a page as two blank lines. I would prefer a more visual indication but this would interfere with text itself. In order to get rid of the page break a user would have to effectively delete both lines and press entere to add a new line between two paragraphs so this would remove the hidden RTF "\page" code to insert a page break. If people are happy with this and the way it works then I will go ahead and code it up!!
ass17 Posted January 18, 2017 Author Posted January 18, 2017 OK, Page Breaks are going into the next build and will be as follows: Selecting "Insert Page Break" will insert a page break at the caret/cursor point within the text box. It will insert, visually, a minimum of two blank lines in appearance and move the caret/cursor to the start of next paragraph. If you select "Remove ALL Page Breaks" it ill loop through the whole text and remove all page breaks and set the cursor to the end of the text. If you wish to remove one page break, then this will be a manual task by taking the caret/cursor to the first text character after the page break, then pressing the backspace key minimum twice to get the paragraph/line underneath the previous paragraph/line and then you can hit the enter/return key to space out your paragraphs/lines accordingly. Also I'm putting this out there to gauge whether people would wish to have such a feature. The feature would be a "Profanity Filter". And how it would work is the on screen visually nothing would change put press the print button and it would partially **** out words that it deems unsavoury. For example: if Football was in the list then "Football" would be converted to " F******l ". The words would be fully customisable via the config file. So please any thoughts on this would be great...
mavhc Posted January 19, 2017 Posted January 19, 2017 At this point I'd advise to not add any features that aren't required by at least 20% of your users, to keep the software as simple as possible.
ass17 Posted January 19, 2017 Author Posted January 19, 2017 Ok, page break is in and I'll leave the profanity filter out [emoji1303]
Willott Posted January 19, 2017 Posted January 19, 2017 I'd definitely go profanity filter out - from the captures I've seen this month, quite a few of the A Level texts include quotes with various words which may otherwise be unsavoury
mavhc Posted January 19, 2017 Posted January 19, 2017 Plus it's kind of like spellcheck, the idea is to not alter what they're writing
ass17 Posted January 19, 2017 Author Posted January 19, 2017 I agree, having spoken to our exams officer who spoke of the same problems you describe.
ass17 Posted January 19, 2017 Author Posted January 19, 2017 2.0.8.1 Fixed - Page Numbering adjustment Changed - Exam Board "EDEXCEL" renamed to "Pearson" in config file (if you wish to keep your existing config please change "EDEXCEL" to "Pearson" manually) 2.0.8.2 - Added - Page Breaks are now included. Selecting "Insert Page Break" will insert a page break at the caret/cursor point within the text box. It will insert, visually, a minimum of two blank lines in appearance and move the caret/cursor to the start of next paragraph. If you select "Remove ALL Page Breaks" it ill loop through the whole text and remove all page breaks and set the cursor to the end of the text. If you wish to remove one page break, then this will be a manual task by taking the caret/cursor to the first text character after the page break, then pressing the backspace key minimum twice to get the paragraph/line underneath the previous paragraph/line and then you can hit the enter/return key to space out your paragraphs/lines accordingly. Also included with the ZIP file is the latest JCQ guidance (Section 8.8 on using Word Processors if you interested), my software meets all rules set out within. Download Link below: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2Rz5d6Ck6CCeEVQeERUMVQyU2M/view?usp=sharing 1
Semple1 Posted March 1, 2017 Posted March 1, 2017 Hi, I just tried out version 2.0.8.2 with a student but had a few issues when opening the file again in a different room. It lost the double line spacing on the document and when printing off. Page numbers were 1/4 and 2/4 - but there was no third or fourth page as all of the work fitted on the first two pages (due to it changing itself to single line spacing). Maybe page 3 and 4 would have been there if the double line spacing was correct? I changed it back to double line spacing but it still remained single when printing off. The page numbers were also then 1/1 on the first page and 2/1 on the second page! It also didn't seem to save the candidate launch screen details, as we had to type everything back in again. Please advise? I think I'll go back to 2.0.4.1 for the time being! Thanks.
thimon Posted March 1, 2017 Posted March 1, 2017 Can I ask why people use this Exam Writepad instead of Word for exam laptops?
mavhc Posted March 1, 2017 Posted March 1, 2017 Can I ask why people use this Exam Writepad instead of Word for exam laptops? Spellcheck has to be disabled for some exams, also it's helpful to just have the feature you need, so no one's messing about with word art or images. 1
ass17 Posted March 1, 2017 Author Posted March 1, 2017 (edited) Hi, It also didn't seem to save the candidate launch screen details, as we had to type everything back in again. Thanks. It does save the details in the saved file but if you have turned on Launch Candidate info screen on launch then it negates the fact that the details are already stored, I have now fixed this so that if you are launching a saved file it wont prompt the candidate info screen. Edited March 1, 2017 by ass17
ass17 Posted March 1, 2017 Author Posted March 1, 2017 Hi, It lost the double line spacing on the document and when printing off. Page numbers were 1/4 and 2/4 - but there was no third or fourth page as all of the work fitted on the first two pages (due to it changing itself to single line spacing). Maybe page 3 and 4 would have been there if the double line spacing was correct? I changed it back to double line spacing but it still remained single when printing off. The page numbers were also then 1/1 on the first page and 2/1 on the second page! Thanks. with the page numbering a printing line spacing after opening a file I will further investigate this... and fix accordingly over the weekend... :-)
ass17 Posted March 1, 2017 Author Posted March 1, 2017 with the page numbering a printing line spacing after opening a file I will further investigate this... and fix accordingly over the weekend... :-) All issue are now fixed, new verison over the next few days.... :-)
Rob_D Posted March 2, 2017 Posted March 2, 2017 Can I ask why people use this Exam Writepad instead of Word for exam laptops? In addition to mavhc's comment about the spell checker (which is really difficult to completely disable in word) the ease of use and robust backup procedures are really useful in exams, where the software can be administered by invigilators with little to no training. Way better than us having to run down and faff around trying to restore someone's lost (unsaved) word document after the computer crashed. The auto-generated header with center number, candidate number etc. is great a well.
RLR Posted March 2, 2017 Posted March 2, 2017 Can I ask why people use this Exam Writepad instead of Word for exam laptops? There's a few nice features in Exam Write Pad. I like the autosave mostly as we've used Word Pad in the past and although invigilators are told to tell their students to save, this doesn't always happen and have had students lose work in the past.
thimon Posted March 3, 2017 Posted March 3, 2017 Word has it's own auto save feature, and we've disabled all the proofing tools and spell check via GPO with no issues. We were using Word Pad but the Exams Office is much happier with Word now being used.
Rob_D Posted March 3, 2017 Posted March 3, 2017 Word has it's own auto save feature, and we've disabled all the proofing tools and spell check via GPO with no issues. We were using Word Pad but the Exams Office is much happier with Word now being used. Fair enough, it was a few years back when we tried to configure word, and just couldn't find a way to fully disable the spell checker, at least not in a way the user couldn't undo. The other thing I like is that it automatically runs as a full screen app, thus reducing distractions.
Boredguy Posted March 3, 2017 Posted March 3, 2017 Also for us, all our exams laptops are very old and not on a domain, so that rules out having them on the domain and using GPO's to lock down Office and there is less temptation for users to hit lots of different buttons. The only time we use Word for exams is for the students who are allowed the SPAG assistance.
ass17 Posted March 5, 2017 Author Posted March 5, 2017 2.0.8.3 Fixed - When double-clicking a saved file, the option to "Launch Candidate Info On Startup" is ignored, allowing a user to quickly edit/print. 2.0.8.4 Fixed - Finally, after many attempts page numbering is correct when printinf off multiple times without restarting the program. 2.0.8.5 Fixed - Double Line Spacing was not being honoured when "DoubleLineSpacingPrint" was set to 1 (Off). Download Link https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2Rz5d6Ck6CCeEFNWXZjWGVUX1U
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