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(1) What version is the latest?

    V1.3d is the latest 16bit version. V2.4 is the latest 32bit version. Development has been ceased on the 16bit version and the 32bit version will now be made the standard.

(2) Whats the difference between the different versions?

    Version 2.4 10 April 2001

      Add: Converted to Access 2000

    Version 2.3b 7 March 2000

      Fix: Report footer now appears on same page as rest of report (Num courses printed), and header appears with course info, instead of being on different pages. Fault only showed with large course information spreading over more than one page.

    Version 2.3a 15 February 2000

      Fix: Report footer now appears on same page as rest of report (Num courses printed).

    Version 2.3 25th January 2000

      ADD: Changed all help ? to the word Help.
      Fix: When doing multiple prints, stopped hiding fields when dont need hiding.
      Fix: Three line footer now prints on correct number of pages.
      Add: Added field enrolment to reports.
      Add: Added field Further Details to reports.
      Fix: Can now print more than 15 courses.
      Fix: When cancelling the print, the program carries on.
      Add: Number of courses printed added to bottom of printout.

    Version 2.21 10th February 1999

      Fix: Removed references to 2.5 compatibility layer now fully 32bit (only 2 commands needed converting)

    Version 2.2 11th January 1999

      Fix: Altered fSubjectMain so that select button is enabled when unrefining.
      Fix: Remove two functions in mGlobalCode to do with setting colours which are not used.
      Fix: Renamed Contact to Venue Contact on course details, screen + report.
      Fix: Altered report to pick up contact + phone from course and not provider table.
      Fix: Fixed report so that empty fields are removed
      Fix: Fixed displaying of the course details to the screen so that a large course content field is broken up and doesnt stop scrolling
      Fix: gsbCreateCourseDetails removed output for outcome
      Fix: Report placed in possible qualification titles
      Fix: Needed to ensure qual is now attached for report
      Fix: Fixed location buttons, too large in list

    Version 2.1r4 28th December 1998

      Fix: Altered report so can hide logo, stop phone number overwriting child care.
      Fix: Altered size of top text on fPublicSelect to match fStartup fontsize.
      Fix: Alter flocationMain, fSubjectMain resized buttons to fill gap

    Version 2.1r3 8th December 1998

      Fix: Altered report so fields will hide.
      Fix: Altered subjectmain and locationmain to autozoom in and new layout.

    Version 2.1r2 7th December 1998

      Fix: Fixed help buttons on multi select view course.
      Fix: Altered the report drastically ready for removing selected fields if they like the layout.
      Fix: Altered locationList to auto zoom in
      Fix: Altered SubjectList to auto zoom in

    Version 2.1 25th November 1998

      Fix: Fixed report so will print when printing and not a multi select print.
      Fix: Fixed attachment for Venue (for new report), was attaching wrong table
      Fix: Altered fStartForm, fPublicSelectForm to alter title
      Fix: Altered rCourse report to display user defined title

    Version 2.0r3 18th November 1998

      Fix: Altered report to use a proper report now, also formatted it better

    Version 2.0r2 25th October 1998

      Fix: Altered fFinalScreen, sbStartup, sbQuit to allow cancel
      Fix: Added time limited code

    Version 2.0r1 7th October 1998

      Fix: Altered MsgBox that said bugger to say about needing the microsoft fix
      Fix: Added view last selected course on multi select courses screen.
      Fix: Possibly altered the page setup to A4, hopefully will fix problems saving to RTF where seems to add in extra pages!

    Version 2.0rel 1st October 1998

      Fix: Fixed timout if > 80 seconds had integer instead of long.
      Fix: Removed debugging msgbox on multi select course.
      Fix: Fixed the report printing so that no extra page.

    Version 2.0beta4 10th August 1998

      Enabled scrolly bars on listbox on location main form.
      Fixed viewing multi select courses when only one course, stopped it crashing.

    Version 2.0beta3 3rd August 1998

      Added multi select to Method screen.
      Added save to RTF file when viewing multi select courses.
      Fixed keyword search so that when selecting large words does not crash.
      Fixed counts for courses by ensuring long is used instead of integer.

    Version 2.0beta2 12th July 1998

      Fixed keyword select screen so that only selects keywords in subjects and not inherited subjects.
      Fixed courseDetails screen, so that when not using multi print, you can actually get into this screen.
      When printing multiple courses now updates stats for these courses.

    Version 2.0beta1 10th July 1998

      Conversion to 32bit.
      NB. If you wish to run this version using Access 97 ensure that you have updated the msjet35.dll and msrepl35.dll to versions 3.51. If you dont you will not be able to update the stats or view a record. This fixes a bug MS introduced which does not allow you to open a read/write recordset when you already have a read only recordset open.
      Altered resize code to use new 32 bit dlls.
      Altered ini file code to read from the registry.
      Fixed the logo bitmap so that it shows the same size on every page.
      Added multi select for viewing courses.
      Altered report bitmap to pick up image from fPublicSelect Screen. This is due to another bug in Access 97 that will not allow bitmaps linked to a database in headers!

    Version 1.3d 10th August 1998

      Fixed course count so can handle more than 32000 courses.
      Fixed keyword search so that if word is longer than 16 chars no longer crashes.
      Fixed location list scroll, so that can scroll list of locations for a county.

    Version 1.3c 27th May 1998

      Fixed printed report so that keeps text together and does not split over pages.
      Altered Training Scheme to say Government Initiatives.

    Version 1.3b 10th March 1998

      Fixed disappearing freetext button
      Fixed truncating of text in view course.
      Fixed keyword search so that only shows relevant keywords when first selection done
      Added version button on public select screen

    Version 1.3 10th February 1998

      Added resize code.
      Altered location form to search by counties first.
      Altered search routine for keyword search, sped up. Also removed jump into subject search.
      Fixed help buttons for restart, and back on fpublicmainselect.

    Version 1.2c 11th November 1997

      Modifications made to the FreeText screen. No longer using FreeText list all free text searching is now by typing in words.
      Changes to AttachTables and to fViewCourseDetailsMain sbCreateTempTable to take account of changes in the tables exported from the new Office and Maintenance system

    Version 1.2b 5th June 1997

      On fixing previous bug, found that the logo on printing could not be changed, This is now fixed by doing a non joining join, and using a bitmap instead of a subform.

    Version 1.2a 3rd June 1997

      When printing course details, duration, timetable, held at are now separated.

    Version 1.2 9th January 1997

      When unable to start, fixed quit, as seems to freeze if log table never attached.

    Version 1.1 14th November 1996

      Altered final screen to add additional text
      Altered Freetext search to use FreeTextMain table - speeds search considerably.
      Made access automatically shutdown if ini file not available.
      Added multi-user access code for stats, log and view details.
      Fixed Unrefine when entering subject search first.
      Added loading screen.

    Version 1.0 14th November 1996

      First release version.

(3) What spec machine do i need to run the software?

    Basically the higher the spec the faster the software will run. Memory is the most important thing to have. 32MB is a suggested minimum, you have to remember that windows 95 eats about 8MB of RAM before it even runs any applications. NT itself will eat about 24MB.
    Ideally you want to have the whole dataset in memory, that way the machine will not have to access the hard disk.
    Think of it in human terms, take your brain as the memory and a filing cabinet as the hard disk. Now if you could store all the information in your brain you would have instant access to the data. For the information thats in the filing cabinet it takes much longer to access. This is just the same for a computer. So don't expect miracles on machines with undersized memory!

(4) I`m confused with the ini settings program?

    The ini settings for the 32bit version are all held in the registry, instead of the old ini file as in 16bit programs. So what i have done is written code to write to registry instead. But this causes problems when you want to update a remote site. You can no longer just copy the ini file. So what I have done is to give you the facility to write the registry values out to a file.
    Then using the iniwriter program at a remote site you can update the registry with these new config files.
    {iniwriter.exe config.tfg}

    The iniwriter program has a secondary function of being able to convert the old ini file to the new config file format.
    {iniwriter.exe old.ini config.tfg}

    Now in the Ini settings screens you have the options of

    New Config File - This creates a new empty config file! and allows you to set its values.

    Load Config File - This reads a config file and allows you to alter its values.

    Read Registry - This reads the values in the local registry and allows you to alter them.

    The above options allow you to edit the relevant settings.
    The below options will convert settings from the new config file to the local registry and vice versa.
    Convert Registry to File - This allows you to save the values in the local registry to a new config file.

    Convert File to Registry - This stores the config files values into the registry.

Bug Reports

(100) When printing a course the last line at the bottom of the page will be cut in half, e.g. half on page one, the other half on page two.

    This is now fixed in release 1.3c, you must update to at least this version to fix the problem.

(101) When selecting a Keyword i.e. management then the system throws up loads of spurious courses.

    This is now fixed in release 2.0beta2, you must update to at least this version to fix the problem. You also need to have at least TIM V??? to export the data correctly.

(102) TES fails complaining that a recordset is read only!