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

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.

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.

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

the save function that caused lockouts when checking for path that exists and trying to create a blank file before writing the contents to it, not necessary really. All in all, doesn’t happen all the time, but enough times to warrant its change, which is strange, so not sure the exact cause is is hence no replicated steps to diagnose.

I'm currently testing a new version and hope to release it later this week.

Just a quick note folks, please do not use version 22.04.02.2024 I have had a few reports of blank documents being saved or corrupted. I have released four versions after this one which fixed the issue, so please make sure you have the latest installed. Thanks

The MSI will overwrite everyone, so backup your config and push it out after installation.

OK, no worries, if you do get the error then you will need to submit the debug log to me so I can investigate and ask some questions based on this.

I've also just noticed that you are using version 22.05.07.1933 to generate the long file, and the error message I posted in the previous was specific to that version only and was fixed in the 22.05.11 version, and you generate the error again and log file using the very latest version to see if it still persists please?

Looks like just after checking the fonts on the print screen you get an error: 16/05/2022 12:38:20: PrintControl_Load - System.InvalidCastException: Conversion from string "CAIE" to type 'Long' is not valid. ---> System.FormatException: Input string was not in a correct format. at Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.Conversions.ParseDecimal(String Value, NumberFormatInfo NumberFormat) at Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.Conversions.ToLong(String Value) --- End of inner exception stack trace --- at Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.Conversions.ToLong(String Value) at ExamWritePad.PrintControl.PrintControl_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e) I’m sure I can sort this out, but what I scratching my head around with error is why is it trying to take a string value and change it to a number??? Should be easy to sort out..

Weird, I can only assume it’s having issues reiterating through the list of installed printers, which is a good old .net function, so at the mercy of this each time. What I could do, is provided a button in the print preview screen that allow you to try to refresh the printers, perhaps? See if it can rebuild the list..

Please can you generate a debug log file for me using the Instructions in the previous post, thanks.

This seems strange because it works for me even with Microsoft Print to PDF available as the only printer. I’ve printed to two separate printers this morning, one on Wi-Fi and the other Ethernet, both shared via our print server and both were ok. Can you provide me with a debug log file so I can check what printers EWP is finding and the associated settings. Turn on debugging in the config, run EWP and hit print. Close EWP then locate the latest log file in the Programdata\ExamWritePad\ExamWritepad\{current build number}

What printer you got mapped and has it been set to A4 as the default paper size? 4.8 is very slack when it came to printing and still had issues, so wouldn’t be my choice long term for printing.

Which exam board were the students using? Was this for the Religious Studies AQA? I’ve had no issues with my students printing off in the last hour..

The biggest dilemma I have is converting the EWP project firstly to C#, then to .net7 When to do it and if I can give the time required to doing it. Certainly for the next 5 years EWP will stay VB.Net running on the .Net 4.8 framework. But this is all dictated to, by Microsoft and it’s product lifecycles etc..

We still did two lots of mocks this school year because of the unknown nature of TAGS or final exam. So yes, I bet a lot schools have been busy on the assessment front :-)

And good luck to all candidates taking exams from today onwards for the next 6/7 weeks. Hope all goes well for you techies and EWP runs smoothly, famous last words!! :-)

I have now sorted out the issue with the candidate screen and it is now not visible from the taskbar and thus cannot be closed unnecessarily which then causes a knock-on effect. I can send you the build if you wish to run it, which we are today.

The candidate details are saved to a variable in the first instance, the variables are then called upon when the document is saved and the variables are written to the ExamText file.

Ok I will look into the issue. It’s called Save and exit, because you are saving the details and exiting the candidate screen, and because the other button is exit. I’m thinking about the UX now in the longer term so it makes more sense to call the buttons “Close” and “Save & Continue” or “Save & Close”. ‘Exit’ and ‘quit’ are words associated with exiting the app complete, where as ‘close’ is more subtle.

These are now done, 9 question-based message boxes in total and will be available in the next version of EWP.

Can you PM me your email address then I can send you over a text EXE file to give it a go.

I have now created a dialog that will allow any of the common formats to be selected by default without have to mess with the drop down filter list. BMP, EMF, GIF, JPG, JPEG, PNG, TIF, TIFF, WMF I’m hoping to get other formats in soon like HEIC etc.. but they need a little more work.