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[ass17]

Hi,

 

Just a couple of minor bits I've found this morning...

 

1. Spelling mistake on candidate info screen, should be 'Centre' not 'Center'

2. Is it possible for the centre number and centre name to be pre-populated when there is only one option in the list? I've added our centre details to the config which makes it appear in the combo box, but for single centre schools it would be fab to avoid those extra clicks

3. Mute audio doesn't work for us when specified in the config. You see the volume control appear on the screen momentarily on open but it doesn't mute

The new software is looking great by the way, a much cleaner interface. We are testing with the exams department tomorrow so will let you know if there is anything to feed back.

1. Fixed

 

2. Fixed

 

3. Fixed, the mute code was for keyboards that supported audio keys, so change it for a more system wide approach.

 

I will hang off releasing an update until you have tested tomorrow and get feedback. Expect a new version Wed/Thurs.

Edited November 25, 2019 by ass17

[ass17]

Clearly it needs end-user-language options set in the config then

 

(Although I say that in jest, it might not actually be a bad idea, in the long-run)

 

I haven't spoken about this as yet, but Im in dialogue with a few schools in America about using EWP, but the bigger issue is trying to make it suit a country that has many different rules within each state. In terms of education I'd expect it to be very similar state to state but its taking ages to get people to respond.

 

I'd love to go global with this, so if anyone who subscribes to this thread has contacts in the US, can you help out, touch base with them and mention EWP and how it works and whether there is any benefit to the US education system. I be very appreciative.

Edited November 25, 2019 by ass17

[smarties11]

1. Fixed

 

2. Fixed

 

3. Fixed, the mute code was for keyboards that supported audio keys, so change it for a more system wide approach.

 

I will hang off releasing an update until you have tested tomorrow and get feedback. Expect a new version Wed/Thurs.

 

Hi @ass17,

 

That's great, thanks for sorting those so quickly. I've done a demo this morning with our exams department and the feedback was really positive. They really like the new interface, therefore we'll be using it live next week for our mock exams! :-D

 

A couple of small niggles...

 

1. It would be great if there was an option for English IPA symbols on the accents dialog. These weren't in the old EWP either but we've apparently needed them for A-Level English/English Literature exams in the past. I think we told them to use character map last year but it means they have to choose the correct font and search for them. I've got a Word document with them all in which I can send you if you like?

2. It would be better if buttons hidden in the config are hidden on the toolbar rather than disabled to avoid confusion. I think you said you were already working on this though

3. If you click on the exit button, but then press cancel to stay in EWP, the audio still un-mutes

 

Only minor points really, it looks like it is good to go!

 

Thanks :-)

[ass17]

Hi @ass17,

 

That's great, thanks for sorting those so quickly. I've done a demo this morning with our exams department and the feedback was really positive. They really like the new interface, therefore we'll be using it live next week for our mock exams! :-D

 

A couple of small niggles...

 

1. It would be great if there was an option for English IPA symbols on the accents dialog. These weren't in the old EWP either but we've apparently needed them for A-Level English/English Literature exams in the past. I think we told them to use character map last year but it means they have to choose the correct font and search for them. I've got a Word document with them all in which I can send you if you like?

2. It would be better if buttons hidden in the config are hidden on the toolbar rather than disabled to avoid confusion. I think you said you were already working on this though

3. If you click on the exit button, but then press cancel to stay in EWP, the audio still un-mutes

 

Only minor points really, it looks like it is good to go!

 

Thanks :-)

 

That’s good to know people are loving it.

 

Send over the IPA doc and I will see what I can do.

 

Yes, the icons will be hidden in time but for now they are greyed out.

 

I will have a look at the point 3 and fix.

 

Thanks for the feedback!!

[smarties11]

That’s good to know people are loving it.

 

Send over the IPA doc and I will see what I can do.

 

Yes, the icons will be hidden in time but for now they are greyed out.

 

I will have a look at the point 3 and fix.

 

Thanks for the feedback!!

 

That's great, thank you. Do you want to PM me your e-mail address? I'll get them sent over this afternoon.

[box_l]

Hi,

 

I am looking forward to the new version with the auto populated candidate fields.

 

I may have missed this in the documentation and this thread, but how do i user %username% etc in the config file please?

 

BoX

[ass17]

That's great, thank you. Do you want to PM me your e-mail address? I'll get them sent over this afternoon.

 

Just email it over to [email protected]

 

Thanks

[ass17]

Hi,

 

I am looking forward to the new version with the auto populated candidate fields.

 

I may have missed this in the documentation and this thread, but how do i user %username% etc in the config file please?

 

BoX

 

All environment variables that resolve to a folder or drive path are supported.

 

%username% is not supported as it doesn’t resolved to a path.

Edited November 26, 2019 by ass17

[box_l]

Thank you.

 

I will try HOMEPATH and USERPROFILE to see if they do what I want.

[ass17]

Thank you.

 

I will try HOMEPATH and USERPROFILE to see if they do what I want.

 

Both should work [emoji1303]

[kmonah]

Hi,

 

Been using your product for years and like it very much, thank you and keep up the good work!

 

When we use the find and replace it works however it freezes EWP, we then are forced to log off and relaunch and start again.

Was happening on 3030 updated to 3110 and still happening.

 

tried submitting through bug section on your site but it didn't seem to do anything when i clicked submit. an the latest version are missing from that to.

 

Thanks,

[ass17]

Hi,

 

Been using your product for years and like it very much, thank you and keep up the good work!

 

When we use the find and replace it works however it freezes EWP, we then are forced to log off and relaunch and start again.

Was happening on 3030 updated to 3110 and still happening.

 

tried submitting through bug section on your site but it didn't seem to do anything when i clicked submit. an the latest version are missing from that to.

 

Thanks,

 

Hi thanks for the feedback.

 

Can you provide more details, in terms of how long into the exam does it start to freeze?

 

Does it freeze when there is a few lines of text or a larger quantity of lines?

 

It could it be possible that the auto save is causing the lockout of the text window control as it runs on a separate process to the other functions that run on the click of a ribbon button. So if the find/replace locks out the text control and the auto save or auto backup are fired in separate processes it is likely to cause a collision.

 

If you provide as much background as you can then I will be in a better position to test.

[ass17]

Hi,

 

Been using your product for years and like it very much, thank you and keep up the good work!

 

When we use the find and replace it works however it freezes EWP, we then are forced to log off and relaunch and start again.

Was happening on 3030 updated to 3110 and still happening.

 

tried submitting through bug section on your site but it didn't seem to do anything when i clicked submit. an the latest version are missing from that to.

 

Thanks,

 

I’ve done my own test with a 148 page document and replaced the letter ‘o’ with ‘hello’ and pressed the replace all button a few seconds before the auto save. It works ok, replaced 24,427 occurrences in 20 seconds. Obviously the program hangs while it happens but returns once complete.

 

Not sure what the issues are here which out someone being able to replicate it with conditions.

[MrWu]

Hi

 

Just testing the new install on our laptops, great looking package!

 

I have an issue though, when I invoke the print icon, it crashes with this error:

 

 

We are using Windows LTSC 2018

 

many thanks!

[ass17]

Hi

 

Just testing the new install on our laptops, great looking package!

 

I have an issue though, when I invoke the print icon, it crashes with this error:

 

[ATTACH=CONFIG]55825[/ATTACH]

 

We are using Windows LTSC 2018

 

many thanks!

 

Thanks for taking the time to test and use EWP

 

This have never happened before so please could you supply more detail to the issue please.

 

Do you have any printers installed on the test PC, if so, how many and what is the default?

 

Have you made changes to the config file? If so which changes?

 

Can you send me a debug log, turn on debugging in the config file, run EWP and generate the error again, then it will generate an HTML file in either, the users temp folder or the windows temp folder.

 

 

Thanks

[MrWu]

Thanks for taking the time to test and use EWP

 

This have never happened before so please could you supply more detail to the issue please.

 

Do you have any printers installed on the test PC, if so, how many and what is the default?

 

Have you made changes to the config file? If so which changes?

 

Can you send me a debug log, turn on debugging in the config file, run EWP and generate the error again, then it will generate an HTML file in either, the users temp folder or the windows temp folder.

 

 

Thanks

 

Hi

 

I think I got to the bottom of this

 

you need to apply this Framework Patch ..

 

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4486553/march-1-2019-kb4486553

 

 

After that the Print dialogue appears without errors...

 

I will give more feedback if needed next week, since the exam stuff is going to have a good play (they want this to replace old Exampad and Word 2016..so far it looks great!

[ass17]

Hi

 

I think I got to the bottom of this

 

you need to apply this Framework Patch ..

 

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4486553/march-1-2019-kb4486553

 

 

After that the Print dialogue appears without errors...

 

I will give more feedback if needed next week, since the exam stuff is going to have a good play (they want this to replace old Exampad and Word 2016..so far it looks great!

 

Thanks for this bit of info, I think in the documentation I will suggest to make sure that all DotNetFramework patches/cumulative updates are installed prior to running EWP.

 

Cheers!

[ass17]

Hi @ass17,

 

That's great, thanks for sorting those so quickly. I've done a demo this morning with our exams department and the feedback was really positive. They really like the new interface, therefore we'll be using it live next week for our mock exams! :-D

 

A couple of small niggles...

 

1. It would be great if there was an option for English IPA symbols on the accents dialog. These weren't in the old EWP either but we've apparently needed them for A-Level English/English Literature exams in the past. I think we told them to use character map last year but it means they have to choose the correct font and search for them. I've got a Word document with them all in which I can send you if you like?

 

Thanks :-)

 

IPA alphabet is now included but split into three options on the drop down list. The selection window has had to be increased to 64 buttons to allow for IPA use.

[MrWu]

Thanks for this bit of info, I think in the documentation I will suggest to make sure that all DotNetFramework patches/cumulative updates are installed prior to running EWP.

 

Cheers!

 

No worries!

 

Also, it throws up an application error if no printers were mapped be it a network issue etc when you select print.. I will try and get a screenshot for you, again if a printer is properly mapped its no issue, FYI

[kmonah]

I’ve done my own test with a 148 page document and replaced the letter ‘o’ with ‘hello’ and pressed the replace all button a few seconds before the auto save. It works ok, replaced 24,427 occurrences in 20 seconds. Obviously, the program hangs while it happens but returns once complete.

 

Not sure what the issues are here which out someone being able to replicate it with conditions.

 

 

Cheers for the quick response, have figured it out, it was to do with a 2nd window appearing behind the main page had to alt+tab to it to get it away then you can carry on.

[smarties11]

IPA alphabet is now included but split into three options on the drop down list. The selection window has had to be increased to 64 buttons to allow for IPA use.

 

That's great, thank you. Will look forward to this update!

[ass17]

That's great, thank you. Will look forward to this update!

 

I do have a full IPA to go in a future update but for now the one you supplied will be enough to get started [emoji1303]

 

I shall release it this weekend

[ass17]

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3.1.8.0 (01/12/2019)

• FIXED: Spelling mistake on the Candidate Information window where on two occasion ‘Centre’ was spelt ‘Center’.

• FIXED: If only one Centre Number and/or Centre Name are specified in the config, they will now appear as the default selected option on the Candidate Information window.

• FIXED: The function that provides EWP with ability to ‘Mute Audio’ has been changed to support all or most PCs. The previous system would only Mute if your keyboard support volume keys.

• FIXED: The system sound would re-enable if you clicked cancel when closing EWP in order to continue using EWP.

• ADDED: English IPA character/symbols added to the language character map (used only with UK A-Level English exams).

• FIXED: EWP would crash, when trying to print, if you have no printers installed.

• FIXED: Clear Formatting option never fully cleared all formatting when applying it to the whole document.

[box_l]

Hi Ass17,

 

Our exams officer has asked if we can make two fields on the candidate info screen "non mandatory" in our config.

Or maybe hide them altogether.

 

The fields we want to hide are:

Syllabus / Entry code

Component /Unit Code

 

I have tried removing the section from the XML, but as i expected, this did not work.

 

Thanks for the new version posted above.

 

BoX

[ass17]

Hi Ass17,

 

Our exams officer has asked if we can make two fields on the candidate info screen "non mandatory" in our config.

Or maybe hide them altogether.

 

The fields we want to hide are:

Syllabus / Entry code

Component /Unit Code

 

I have tried removing the section from the XML, but as i expected, this did not work.

 

Thanks for the new version posted above.

 

BoX

 

I will create a config option to make them non-mandatory, no problem.