• May have eliminated the “Must run as administrator” problem when installing RunScoreSetup.exe. The problem was ambiguous wording in the InstallShield documentation.
• At suggestion of Jon Krupa, test to make sure there are not duplicate field names in the database.
• With help from Steven Keith, improved the Help screens concerning transponder races.
• At request of Andrés Alañón Vázquez make place and division place work for lap races with a scratch time in the Announce screen.
• Can now use a scratch event subtracted from a laps event in a listing file. Before you could subtract a fixed time (gun time) but not a different time for each competitor. (You have always been able to subtract the initial time [“lap 1”] from the other laps using the “Net time” feature.) This improvement was inspired by the work for Andrés Alañón Vázquez (Version 7.2.11.24) that allowed this in a “Merge Events” listing.
• J-Chip records are very similar to ChampionChip records so it is hard for RunScore to tell which system is in use when loading files. There is no problem when the data come through TCP/IP since the user selects the system. In order that RunScore knows that the files being read in are J-chip files, a new control (J-Chip file loading) is added under Tools/Chip Options. Note: There is no problem with J-Chip records being read as ChampionChip records unless it is a race where the clock goes past midnight. J-Chip has taken over the ChampionChip “antenna” field and replaced it with a “day” field which keeps track of how many days you are into a race.
• Working with George Groome and Mark Hendley, made a fix to the External Timer “Keyboard” device and made a change to the “Barcode” device so that it works with a keypad that terminates a line with either <LF> or <CR>. Also set the default for the barcode to be bib mode instead of time mode.
• At request of George Groome, reinstitute “not found added” for an individual event. But, instead of using a checkbox on the Edit Event dialog box, it is set in the entries.ini file. This allows you to turn on “not found bib number added to database” for an individual event. However, this is just for external timers such as the Time Machine. This has no bearing on chip/tag races since at the time a chip/tag record since the particular event is not known at the point a chip/tag record is being parsed. See “not found” in Help for details.
• New command, Select Event, allows you to select on an event. Previously, you could only select on a field.This allows filtering. For example, you could select out only those who started after the gun. It is hoped that you clever users will find new and exciting things to do with this new command.
• Added support for MyLaps ProChip although this was just the addition of the name to Initialize External Timers since it already worked by selecting ChampionChip when using the MyLaps Toolkit.
• In the past few days had two instances of team results reporting a team full of blanks ahead of the first place team. In both cases, it was an event with a start event and, due to errors or people crossing mats, there were negative times. Made changes to catch errors like this.
• At request of Douglas Kirk, allow Message command in team results and, in particular, allow an initial message that will display at beginning of line.

• Latest stable release.
• A new file, Boston.2013.tac, with qualifying times for the 2013 Boston Marathon has been added to the Common folder. You should use this for marathons run after September

• New command Continue used with Selected to allow you to mark a field and do another function, such as send an e-mail in one *.lst file.
• New command EMAIL PORT;
• At request of Steve Moland, “Announcers on the Run,” when doing an Import and you run into a field not recognized, in addition to Ignore and Cancel, have added “Ignore all remaining fields” button. When it is pressed, no more fields are processed and the file being imported is read but only up to the field being queried.
• Can now use Gmail, AOL and other SMTP servers for e-mail.
• Some people did not like being warned every time they went to delete a bib or time in Edit/Results. This can now be set in Preferences.
• At request of Marek BLAŽEK, made a change to the sort routine to handle diacritic symbols (R,Š,Ž,C,Š).
• Marek BLAŽEK requested that “Time difference” and “Total Time Difference” be added to allowed features of “Event to Database.” Done.
• Debbie Burke did not like the “I-beam” cursor on the main page which changed to a “pointer” cursor on the links. Was hard to see. Changed to “pointer” for bulk of screen and to “hand” on link. This is the more standard way to handle the cursor.
• It was pointed out that when tabbing across the Initial External Timers dialog box, that is was not possible to reach the TCP checkbox. It was only possible to get there with the mouse. Fixed.
• When using a device via TCP, baud does not matter. In order to reinforce that, when you check the TCP checkbox, the Baud drop-down disappears.
• Some people like to be in “insert” when editing and some but some like to be in “replace.” At request of Steve Scheidt, allow the editor to start in either “insert” or “replace” mode. Whatever mode you have it in when you leave the editor, it will be in that mode the next time you edit a file , even if you have closed RunScore in the interim.
• At request of Paul Williams, add alternate white and gray background lines on Instant Results to improve readability.

• At request of Steven Keith, add new system variable %race path%. This can be used in the System Command to copy files from the race directory.
• At request of Steven Keith, provide a way to execute a listing (*.lst) file on startup of a race. This is done by adding a parameter in the Properties/Target section of the RSServer or RSClient icon. The parameter is /startup=filename. In the example below, RSServer starts up the sample race and then starts the announcer.

c:\runscore\rsserver.exe sampleraces\sample\entries /startup=announce.lst

or

c:\runscore\client\rsclient.exe /startup=announce.lst

• You can also specify the IP Address and the port on the command line of RSClient. The parameters are /address=ipaddress and /port=number. For example:

c:\runscore\client\rsclient.exe /startup=announce.lst /address=MyDesktop /port=33000

• While we were at it, we decided to allow you to set the Login name for RSClient to log into RSServer. If you are not using login names, don’t worry about this feature. You can only use this feature if you are requiring a login name but not requiring a password. The parameter is /login=login_name. For example:

c:\runscore\client\rsclient.exe /startup=announce.lst /address=MyDesktop /port=33000 /login=Announcer

• At request of Craig Wilson, allow team members beyond the number scoring to advance. This is controlled by setting a negative number for Advance Maximum control
• You have always been able to specify a “scratch” event in RunScore by making the event name start with the letters “STA” or “SCR”. Now there is a third way. Just specify the event to be a “Start” event in “Misc/Edit list of events”. When a scratch event’s time is subtracted from another event’s time and there is not time for the scratch time, a time of zero is used. On the other hand, if it is not a scratch event, for example it might be the BIKE event in a triathlon, then when the BIKE time is subtracted from the next split and there is no BIKE time, the resulting split is a blank. That allows you to easily find someone who missed a split point.
• New team feature: Team Spread: Prints out, when using Team Format Columns, the spread in time between the first finisher and last scoring finisher on each team.
• New team command: Team Format Brief: Implemented at request of Pat Leone. With Team Format Brief, only the team place, team name, and team score are printed.
• At Steven Keith’s request, add “Starts with” (or “SW”) command to entries.ini. It had been added to *.lst processing some months ago.
• Fixed a problem in entries.ini where you needed to put in dummy data in the [data] area even if none was required.

• At request of Jon Krupa, discard any line of an import file that will produce a record in which all fields are blank. This helps to eliminate those blank records in an Excel file that gets incorporated into a *.csv file.
• Have you ever been working with results in a chip/tag race and were in “bibs and times” (F5) mode and pressed F2 to delete only to realize that you pressed F3 (numbers mode) by mistake and the next F2 ends up deleting a bib but not the time thus mis-aligning the bibs and times? Have you ever hit F2 by mistake and seen a finisher disappear? Some months ago a command “Edit Results (tab) BOTH” as suggested by Mike Richards was added so that you would always be in F5 mode. However, the user could, with a click of the mouse or by depressing F3, put the mode back to the Bibs mode. After many discussions with Steven Keith, Mike Proctor, and Jon Krupa, two significant changes have been made to help. Keep reading.
• At request of Jon Krupa and Mike Proctor, provide a way to “lock” the Results screen in a “both” mode , bibs and times. This can be done using a new control in Preferences. The setting can be overridden for a race by setting “Edit Results” in entries.ini. It can be set to “bibs”, “times”, or “both”. Likewise, if you only want the “both” mode for a few races, you can use the “Edit Results” to use the “both” mode for those races and leave the “both” mode unchecked in Preferences.
• At request of several users, provide protection for deleting bibs and times. It works just like the delete function in Browse. That is, when you first go to delete a finisher or a finisher’s time, you will be asked if you really want to. You will also be told that you can “arm” the deletion by using Ctrl-F2.
• Steve Moland, of Announcers on the Run, requested a change to the Announce screen. He asked that a blank line be inserted if the user pressed enter with no bib number. This allows him to put in blank line if he makes an error , increasing readability.
• Made improvements in the Initialize External Timers dialog box. Prevents you from having two devices connected to the same port. (This is allowed when RSServer is the client and is talking to chip controllers which are servers since the servers have different IP addresses.) Changes also allow you to stop a device while keeping others running. Now if you don’t change anything for a device (timer, port, baud, tcp), the device will not be stopped and started again. This is particularly useful when using the Summit timer.
• If you have a device activated through Initialize External Timers, you can turn it off by blanking the port number or by setting the Start/Stop drop down to Stop.
• It now tests if you are using the same port for two different devices but allows in the case of systems such as IPICO in which case it checks to see if the IP Addresses are the same.
• Jason Biggs found that AccuChip data was not being handled correctly when coming through TCP/IP. Fixed.
• Tony Newton asked for a change to the Live Results screen so that the most recent finisher stayed at the bottom of the screen and is highlighted in blue. To do this, set the Scroll Speed to zero and the Scroll Delay to, say, 1 second.
• Working with Ron Larson, found that sometimes in an Event to Database operation, data is written that is longer than the field. RunScore was not protecting for this situation which, sometimes, caused crashes. This could be a very significant fix.

• Added support for Japanese language
• Fixed Chatsworth support.
• You can now set the lap difference in a lap race in Entries.ini. If two times, in a lap race are within the time, in seconds, the second time is eliminated. Command: “Lap Difference”. The default is 10 seconds.

• Jenna Ginsburg found that a Time Format of NONE was not working with the Announcer feature on RSClient. Fixed.
• Cleaned up and fixed some problems in the sample races. Made them available for download independent of the full install (RunScoreSetup.exe).
• At urging of Steven Keith, add red background text “ UNREGISTERED RUNNER NUMBER “ to Unregistered Runner Number (entry record 0) so that people realize that they are not editing an entry.

• The old *.tac files have been replaced with new ones based on the age-grade tables. These files are used to flag times that the USATF considers quality performances based on gender, age, and time. You can tell if you are using the new ones because they have a 2010 date.
• Unregistered Runner Number (URN) is now protected and is always in record number zero.
• You can now check for Updates via the Click for Updates link on the main page.
• Add support for TCP/IP link between timing systems and RunScore. This allows you to have your timing system farther away.
• And, as usual, a number of bug fixes which are documented in the LatestRevisions.html file.
• The logo in Live Results can now be a *.png file (Portable Network Graphics) or a *.bmp (Windows bitmap) file. Previously, RunScore only supported bitmaps.

• Made an improvement to the edit box when you edit a bib or a time (Right-click on a bib or time). Before the edit box had a thick border which had the effect (in Win XP) to hide the lower part of the characters being edited.
• Fred Dewsberry found that Look Up stopped working on the server once the RSClient is started. This has been a long-standing bug. Not sure why it took this long for someone to report it. Fixed.
• Sylvan Symth requested that when there are no finishers for a team score, that, instead of displaying an annoying error pop-up, just produce a page with no results , only the header. Done.
• John Lauces reported that bar codes were not printing correctly. The problem was introduced when the default monospaced font was added to Preferences. Fixed.
• Greg McFerren found that the BEST command was not working correctly. It was finding the worst performances instead of the best Fixed.

• More bug fixes as described in the LatestRevisions.html file.

• This version mainly fixes bugs that have been found in Version 7.2.1.0. There have been some additional improvements.
• At request of Andrés Alanon Vazquez, add two new commands for use with the Announce screen: “Last Lap Time” and “Average Lap Time.”
• Included a tip in the Help screens by Steven Keith about providing RSServer and a race folder on a thumb drive so that the race management people can do their own data entry without actually installing RunScore.