- At suggestion of Tony Newton, made the use of CSSs (Cascading Style Sheets) for web output more
flexible. Before there was just one CSS which was called runscore.css. Now you have a different one in a race folder called entries.css. RunScore looks for the *.css in the race folder first and, if not found, uses the global one in the RunScore directory.
- The following changes were suggested by Steven Keith. He also did extensive testing that the
changes worked and that the changes were backward compatible with earlier versions and with RSW.
- The entries.val validation file, has been replaced with a new XML file called entries.val.xml.
The transition is painless. When you next make a change in Design Screen or change properties in the Enter/Edit Names screen for a field, the new file will be generated automatically for you .
- Have you wanted to change a field parameter, such as changing from no case to proper case or add another
value for “Allowed” in middle of typing but did not want to go to Design Screen and have to restart the race? You can now change most parameters on the fly. Just right-click on the field as you always did. When you click on Okay, the new entries.val.xml file will be created.
- Changed the way the Look Up command is defined. Instead of putting it in the entries.val file,
it is now placed in entries.ini. This is a more logical place. To aid in the transition, for now, you can have it either place.
- For people who create this new XML in a folder and use the “Look Up” command in the
INI, you will get an error message about “Look Up” in the INI when you run this race on an earlier RSServer/RSClient version or RSW. Just acknowledge the error message and the VAL file will load the Look Up for you the old way.
- Remove the “Edit Validation file as text” from the Misc menu.
- Jon Krupa mentioned that if you have no listing (*.lst) files, you get a pop-up that could be
annoying. A change was made to put an appropriate message on the comment line.
- Andrés Alanon Vazquez, requested a way to show Division Finish order on the Announce screen. This was done by supporting the Division Place command.
- At request of John Snikto, added a “Laps left” to the Announce screen for use in laps races. This allows runners to see how many laps remain.
- Working with Andrés Alanon Vazquez, made a number of improvements to the Announce screen. He wants to use it on a large screen just past the mats of a lap race so the runners can see their bib number, place, number of laps run, and the total distance covered.
- Working with John Snitko, developed a way for chip/tag systems which do not have a
round/pass/lap capability to handle rounds. It works by creating a lap event followed by events with rounds specified. The data goes into the lap event and also into the appropriate round event. This only works on RSServer, not on RSClient.
- Made some improvements to chip/tag processing of round events.
- Andrés Alanon Vazquez, who lives in Spain, requested that the Announcer screen be enhanced to handle lap races. It now can show place, time, number of laps completed, and distance covered.
- Another improvement was made to Announcer so that the screen can be used just beyond the finish line in addition to being ahead of the finish line. When used beyond the finish line with a chip/tag system, a runner can see her results as soon as she crosses the finish line if a large monitor or data projector is used.
- At request of Marc Roy and Tony Newton, add ability to keep FTP open so files
can be uploaded periodically. The file will typically be rewritten through an auto-run process. New commands are “FTP loop” and “FTP Close“. The loop specifies how often, in seconds, the upload should happen.
- Create a file called guntime.ini for ChampionChip which is created when a
ST00007 chip ID is received. This had already been implemented for ChronoTrack.
- Add “View Guntime.ini” to Misc menu so you can pop-up the guntime file
quickly.
- RunScore now supports English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese.
The “French” item on Preferences has been removed and the user’s language preference as set in the Windows Control Panel is used to select the language. The only place the language matters is in some of the listings such as “Number of records” at the bottom of a listing and words such as “Place”, “Rank.”