WinRK v3.3.8 (29 June 2010)

• While fixing the bug that caused a Search for Methods to fail if the database contained an empty Method (v3.3.7) it was realised that, although empty Methods are not allowed, they exist in some older databases. With this in mind a new one-off check (if the illegal Method(s) are deleted and any associated Performances are either repaired or deleted) has been implemented. If, when repairing a Performances, the Method is not known, then create a new Method Name ‘Unknown’ and then a new Method which uses it.

• The original check for commas in City names (also not allowed) in v3.3.4 didn’t take multiple instances into account. This has been rectified.

WinRK v3.3.7 (3 June 2010)

• The Search for methods would fail if the database contained an empty Method (i.e. neither the Name nor the Type nor the Bells was declared).

WinRK v3.3.6 (8 April 2010)

• Leading and trailing spaces are not allowed in any names (Ringers, Cities, Counties, etc.) but in some earlier versions of WinRK the checks for this had been omitted causing problems when Merging. A new function has been added that will check and correct all databases opened

WinRK v3.3.5 (24 February 2010)

• Sometimes databases that had been deleted were left in the MRU list. If one of these were selected, WinRK would inform the user and require a valid database to be chosen instead. It would then crash – this has been fixed.

WinRK v3.3.4 (31 January 2010)

• Commas are not allowed in City names. A further error check has been added to prevent their inclusion and now any City entered in which there is a comma (e.g. Bathampton, Bath) will be changed so that the extra data will be included in brackets i.e. Bathampton (Bath).

• Existing databases will be changed accordingly.

• The Support DLL will now report Windows service packs in use.

WinRK v3.3.3 (10 December 2009)

• If the database ‘Read-only’ property was set the WinRK would fail with the message ‘Run time error ‘91’ Object variable or With block variable not set’.

• The error handling has been improved to ensure a valid date is entered on page two of the Performances wizard.

• The Support DLL has been modified to recognise Windows 7.

WinRK v3.3.2 (9 November 2009)

• When using the Rings wizard, in some circumstances the tower would change when attempting to edit a ring.

WinRK v3.3.1 (18 July 2009)

• When using the Rings wizard, in some circumstances it was not possible to change the number of bells in the ring.

WinRK v3.3.0 (17 April 2009)

• When using the Towers wizard, it was not possible to change the Date First Rung.

• Due to the proliferation of broadband the Email facility has been replaced by the Publish dialog which enables the creation of email attachments that contain selected performances individually formatted for the chosen recipient.

  • Recipients available are:

    Ringing World (Full Peals)	.txt extension
    Ringing World (Quarter Peals)	.txt extension
    Campanophile	.xml extension
    Comma Separated Values	.csv extension

WinRK v3.2.18 (4 February 2009)

• When Merging, the test for existing Performances included the Society, Date Rung, Ring, Method, Time Taken and Number of Changes. This has proved to be inadequate and now also includes the Band and Conductor.

• The selected Performance Number is now shown on the first page of the Performances wizard.

• Some confusion has been caused by the use of the word ‘Cancel’ when used on the button that closes wizards. It has been changed to ‘Close’.

• Merging would hang if the merge database contained Performances with unknown Methods.

• Very occasionally, when using the Towers wizard, it was not possible to change the Number of Bells in a Tower.

WinRK v3.2.17 (6 January 2009)

• If a Tower Performance was entered immediately after a Handbell Performance then the ringer numbering was incorrect on page three of the Performances wizard.

• Due to a spelling mistake the Import function (very) occasionally failed.

WinRK v3.2.16 (4 November 2008)

• An obscure bug was preventing a different Tower being entered when editing an existing Performance.

• If a Performance was entered which had fewer Ringers than expected (the Bells, and therefore the Ringer, count is defined in the selected Ring) then an error was encountered.

• All editing routines have been modified to ensure validity.

WinRK v3.2.15 (1 November 2008)

• It was not possible to change the case of Cities when using the wizard (i.e. replace ‘Bristol’ with ‘BRISTOL’).

• A bug which sometimes selected the wrong Tower on page three of the Rings wizard has been eliminated.

• The audio (beeps) has been modified to be compatible with Vista.

• The Performances report has been modified to remove ‘Unknown’ from the date and time where the time taken has not been entered.

WinRK v3.2.14 (5 October 2008)

• An unwanted entry occasionally appeared in the Jointly Conducted IDs entry in the database causing the Import from search to crash.

• If a search for a Conductor who had only conducted using a Previous Name (AKA) was requested then the search was aborted.

• We’ve learnt to spell ‘registered'!

WinRK v3.2.13 (10 September 2008)

• Counts were sometimes not being updated correctly when adding Performances.

• There was a bug in the Rings adding and updating routines.

WinRK v3.2.12 (9 September 2008)

• It was not possible to perform a complex filtered search for Methods.

• The text entry cursor didn’t move to the next control when a Publication was selected in the Performances wizard.

• An icon was added to the Foundries wizard.

• The User Defaults dialog has been modified to incorporate a new checkbox labelled Display and print ring names which, when selected, will cause the Ring names to be displayed in the Performance View and in the Certificate, Peals and Quarters reports.

• The Print ring name checkbox on page three of the Rings wizard has been removed.

WinRK v3.2.11 (13 July 2008)

• It was not possible to change the case of Method sections (Name, Type and Bells/Stage) when using the appropriate wizard (i.e. replace ‘Grandsire’ with ‘GRANDSIRE’).

• Extra security has been added to make v3 more Vista friendly.

WinRK v3.2.10 (8 June 2008)

• Tower AKAs were being reported erroneously when searching.

• In some circumstances Conductors were not being stored correctly.

• A problem occurred when a Performances Search for Ringers on a single bell was requested (e.g. ‘Find Performances Where Ringer Like Rev Bullitt, Albert On bell 3’)

WinRK v3.2.9 (26 April 2008)

• It was not possible to enter or change the Conductor when editing a Performance in specific, and very unusual, circumstances.

• A problem occurred when attempting to Edit a Ringer who has a Title and the User Default had been set to hide ringer’ titles. This bug caused both the Next and Back buttons to be greyed out.

• A related problem prevented a Performance from being Edited and Updated successfully.

• The Conductor counts were not being updated correctly when the Conducted Type was changed from Conducted to Jointly Conducted.

• Ringing World and Campanophile have been added as default Publications.

• The Publications page of the Performances wizard has been modified to provide a dedicated entry box for the Peal ID/Code when Campanophile has been selected as the Publication.

• The Publication view has been modified to display only the Peal ID/Code when Campanophile has been selected as the Publication.

WinRK v3.2.8 (5 March 2008)

• Under some circumstances selecting Date first rung when entering a new tower would cause a fatal error.

• A problem occurred when Ringers with more than one New Names (AKAs) were present when creating a new database from a Search (i.e. Import from search).

• The Date was not responding to the up and down arrows on page two of the Performances wizard until it had been specifically selected.

• Joint Conductors were not being marked when printing the Performances Report.

• The whole activation code may now be pasted into the Registration form.

WinRK v3.2.7 (7 January 2008)

• It was not possible to search Performances that had an Unknown Conductor so we’ve added some code that recognises the key word Unknown and returns all Performances that do not have a single Conductor. This also includes Jointly Conducted and Silent and Unconducted Performances.

• A problem occurred when Ringers with New Names (AKAs) that only consisted of a change of Title were present when creating a new database from a Search (i.e. Import from search).

• Due to a lack of interest the possibility to order Custom Reports has been removed.

• Tower Circling, Ringer Circling and Year Circling have all been improved. Now you can choose whether or not to include Ringer and Tower Previous Names (AKAs).

• The number of Changes has been added to the Tower Index Report.

WinRK v3.2.6 (26 November 2007)

• After several requests we’ve removed the ‘Unknown’ entry from the Time Taken field and restored the original blank space denoting unknown or un-recorded times.

• When printing a Performances (Single Line) Report the Conductors field was not always being written.

• Bell Numbers were not always being written correctly in the viewing and printing of Handbell performances.

• Even more application data has been added to the debug file.

WinRK v3.2.5 (22 October 2007)

• An erroneous error message was being displayed when a Jointly Conducted performance was modified.

• Conductors’ titles were still being displayed in the Performances spreadsheet whether selected or not.

• Lines in the Performance View could be oddly spaced if any displayed fields terminated with one or more carriage return/line feeds (Returns or Enters).

WinRK v3.2.4 (22 September 2007)

• The user name was not being stored.

• The 'Display and print ringers' titles' selection in the User Defaults dialog was being ignored.

• There was an error in the search routines when using a continuation ('And' or 'Or').

• The support files cslSupport.dll and cslErrorHandler have been modified (again!) to add yet more error handling.

Con2v3 v1.2.2 (22 September 2007)

• The application has been recompiled to ensure compatibility with the modified cslSupport DLL.

• Please note: Versions of Con2v3 prior to v1.2.2 will not run if WinRK v3.2.4 (or better) has been installed.

WinRK v3.2.3 (1 August 2007)

• The Searches were not being sorted correctly.

• Searches by Tower were failing in some cases. The routines have been rebuilt and should now work correctly.

• The Towers displayed in the ‘Select new tower’ drop-down list in the Tower AKAs dialog were only being sorted by the Tower (Dedication). They are now being sorted by City, County and then the Tower.

• It was not possible to update a Tower entry when either the City or the County was being removed. It is now!

• The user message on the Registration form has been changed to make it obvious that the activation code will only be issued to bone fide purchasers.

• The support file cslSupport.dll has been modified.

• Even more error handling has been added!

Con2v3 v1.2.1 (28 July 2007)

• The application has would fail if there was a mismatch in the Ringers AKAs.

WinRK v3.2.2 (7 June 2007)

• An erroneous error message in the Method drop-down lists has been corrected.

• Any associated County AKA's were being ignored when searching by Tower.

• The Multi-methods wizard header was misspelled.

• The Total number of performances in the Tower Circling dialog was incorrectly displaying the total number of bells rung.

WinRK v3.2.1 (3 May 2007)

• Very occasionally the Ring was described wrongly in the Rings wizard which prevented the Ring Name from being changed.

• Under some circumstances erroneous Ringer names could be left in the Conductor Counts.

WinRK v3.2 (4 April 2007)

This is a major upgrade and we strongly recommend all users install it. If you're running Vista then you must install this version (see Installing on Vista on the Tips and Tricks page).

• The ability to have reports custom-built to your requirements has been added after sustained lobbying over the past few years!

• We left out a ‘)’ in the title of the Search Report (Single line) report.

• It was not possible to edit a date without replacing the new name on the AKAs dialog.

• When attempting to print the displayed Counts more than once an error occurred.

• The Performance Certificate was not printing the Ringer and the Bell details correctly if the Ringer's Title (Mr, Rev, etc.) had been included.

WinRK v3.1.9 (31 January 2007)

• A new command - Reformat the current database - has been added to the Tools menu that will, when selected, force a reformat of the current database to match the latest Template.

• After several requests we've given in and added a Rebuild Counts menu that enables you to choose which (or all) counts to rebuild.

• The length allowed for a Ring description has been increased from 50 to 127 characters.

• In some cases duplicate Rings were being created when a database was created from a search. This release fixes the problem and also modifies any affected database.

• The Performances (Single line) report was not being displayed or printed correctly.

• The Towers spreadsheet in the counts window was not being updated correctly and was not always including all towers.

• Import from a search was not writing Towers AKAs correctly.

• The Merge feature was occasionally duplicating Performances.

• The Default Ring was not displaying or saving correctly.

• There was a bug in the Towers count that occasionally caused an error. It has been eradicated!

• Rings with no Tenor defined caused an error in the Search routines.

• It was not possible to search for a Conductor who had AKAs.

WinRK v3.1.8 (31 December 2006)

• Ringer and Conductor names were not including the Title when used in the Spreadsheets, Performance View, AKAs and drop-down lists. This has been rectified and complex filtering may now be used.

• It was not possible to search for Performances on a Ringer acting as a Strapper. Selecting All as the On bell entry will now include Strappers. Selecting Strappers as the On bell entry will limit the search to those that used a Strapper.

• Tower AKAs have been added.

• It was impossible to create an unknown Tenor (with no weight). This has now been rectified.

• The Rings wizard has been re-written to improve speed and stability.

WinRK v3.1.7 (7 December 2006) This is a major upgrade and we strongly recommend all users install it.

• A new Year Circling search has been added that shows how many Performances a chosen Ringer has rung on each day of the year.

• The number of times the year has been circled has been added to the Year Circling search.

• Just to finish the set we’ve added a Ringer Circling search which shows how many times each ringer has rung a particular bell in a selected tower. A particular ring may also be selected.

• A new feature has been added to the User Defaults dialog. You can now choose what Performance Type will be selected, by default, when a new Performance is being entered.

• For all you ‘tower grabbers’ out there, we’ve added a Date First Rung to the Towers wizard and, of course, incorporated it into the Search routines.

• A new dialog, Towers Rung, has been added which tells you at which towers a selected ringer has rung and how many times.

• There's also a Rebuild towers date first rung routine (available in the Tools menu) which determines the first date all towers in the current database were rung by a selected ringer and writes them to the Date First Rung in the database.

• Due to the many complaints we've received about the failure of the 30-day trial, the commercial anti-piracy software we were using has been replaced by a 'home-brewed' version. Unfortunately this means that when you install v3.1.7 you'll need to apply for a new activation code. Sorry!

• A small bug in the 'update database format' routines meant that one update was being missed.

• When the Performance spreadsheets were sorted by Date the Same Day Ordering selection was being ignored.

• The Ring name drop-down on the Performances wizard didn't always work with Handbell performances.

• The trial version would sometimes lock into a loop when an invalid activation code was entered.

• Rings that had been edited or added were not always being written to the Performances wizard correctly.

• Very occasionally the Performances wizard would not open to the correct size.

• The Performances (Single Line) report was displaying the performance numbers incorrectly.

• The Tower Circling dialog didn't always report selected rings correctly.

• The application would crash if the last used database had been removed and the user selected Yes when asked if WinRK should close.

• WinRK would crash if Print Selected Records was selected when no performances were in fact selected.

• Print All Quarters was being printed in entry order rather than Performance Number order.

• WinRK would sometimes refuse to open as a 30-day trial this was cured by changing the Working dialog.

WinRK v3.1.6 (11 July 2006)

• Rings in Handbell performances were not always correct when imported from a PBR file.

• The bug which prevented the creation of a new Multi-Method has been eliminated.

• The Performance number column on the Performances spreadsheet is now saved and restored properly.

• The order of the Band has been standardised on page one of the Performances wizard.

• The Unlike qualifier in Searches didn’t always work correctly.

• New or modified data is now written to the calling wizard when data is changed or added in a wizard that has been called. For example, if you were adding ringers in the Performances wizard and noticed that a name was spelled incorrectly you would call the Ringers wizard and correct it. The corrected name will now be written to the Performances wizard automatically.

• Another new feature has been added to the Tower Circling dialog; you may now choose to see the number of times a ringer has rung each bell as a Ringer or as a Conductor.

• You may now choose to print Ringers' Titles in the Performances and Certificate reports and view them in PealView.

Con2v3 v1.1.2 (26 June 2006)

• This version has been released to interact with the latest database template.

WinRK v3.1.5 (2 June 2006)

• The header in the Debug file was not always being written.

• In certain cases the User Defaults were not being read or written correctly.

• The Performance and Conducted type option buttons were not always being reset correctly.

• The Surnames drop-down in the Ringers wizard was sometimes causing an erroneous error message.

• The drop-downs in the wizards were not always being filled correctly.

• The Email log file was not being deleted on startup.

• It was possible to enter illegal text in the Method Name, Type and Bells/Stages.

• Towers were not always being loaded correctly when the Rings wizard was called from the Performances wizard.

• The Performances (Single line) report was not formatted correctly.

• The Ringers search was not working correctly.

• Import from a Search was not being renumbered.

• When editing a New Name (AKA) the date was not available.

• The ringers of Handbell performances were numbered incorrectly on page one of the Performances wizard.

• The Working dialog has been cleaned up.

• The Conductor of Handbell performances was not always correct when imported from a PBR file.

• The Certificate report has been reworked so that the type of performance (quarter, handbell, etc.) is shown.

• The Database template has been updated.

• A complex filter has been added to page one of the Tenors wizard.

• It's now possible to print Performances (Single line) reports from a search.

WinRK v3.1 (10 April 2006)

• If an old database were used, the Merge function could return false Tower details.

• The Tower Circling dialog was not always returning the correct total.

• The Towers wizard was refusing to allow modifications and it was showing all instances of dedications instead of just one of each.

• The Ringers wizard was showing all Forenames instead of just one of each.

• An error message would be displayed if a report were requested when there were no records in the selected spreadsheet.

• The Selected Edit menu item was not available when the Search spreadsheet was open.

• Filtering of Towers and Rings was not working in some wizards and the Search dialog.

• The Towers spreadsheet has been reworked to remove the Tenor weights and include the Number of Bells in the Tower. Tenor weights are defined as part of a Ring and should not be associated with a Tower.

• If a dedication included a comma (e.g. 'St Vitus, Dance' or '10, Downing St') then it was not read correctly in the Rings wizard and could cause a fatal error.

• A new report, Tower Index, has been introduced. It will produce a list of all Performances in the current database that have been rung in the selected Tower.

• The Publication details may now be displayed in the Performance View window.

• The ability to search for Performances before, after, and between selected Date(s) has been added.

• The ability to search for Full (Tower) performances has been added.

• The search for performances using Ringers has been modified to allow all previous names (AKAs) to be included.

• We've also added the ability to include a Ring when searching for performances using Towers.

• It is now possible to change Performance Numbers. The Renumber function will still start at one but added performances will always be one more than the current highest in the database.

• All reports have been updated.

• The Performance View has been changed with the addition of a Close button and resize handle.

• The log file has been removed. All debug data is now stored in the debug file.

• Error handling and reporting has been improved even more!

Con2v3 v1.0.7 (10 April 2006)

• Handbell performances were not always being marked correctly when converted.

Con2v3 v1.0.6 (8 March 2006)

• The Conductor data was not being converted correctly.

WinRK v3.0.14 (28 February 2006)

• If the ringer count was changed to a lower number (using the Rings and Performances wizards) the original ringers were left unchanged.

• Rings were ignored by the Tower Circling dialog so the wrong bells may have been counted.

• Conductor AKA Counts had been omitted from the Import from Search function.

• Error handling and reporting has been improved. Unfortunately, this has been achieved by modifying one of the main support files so, if it is required, the latest version of Con2v3 (v1.0.5) must be installed.

• A new system constant 'Unknown, Ringer' has been introduced which should be used when entering performances with unknown ringers.

Con2v3 v1.0.5 (28 February 2006)

• Improved checking will now skip the conversion of any performance that doesn't have a complete and valid band. Full details of all skipped peals are written to the file Con2v3.log.

WinRK v3.0.13 (17 February 2006)

• We made a mistake in the installation program that prevented some users from taking advantage of the 30-day trial. Sorry!

• The Rings wizard has been re-worked to improve stability.

• Error handling and reporting has been improved. Unfortunately, this has been achieved by modifying one of the main support files so, if it is required, the latest version of Con2v3 (v1.0.4) must be installed.

Con2v3 v1.0.4 (17 February 2006)

• Recompiled to allow the use of the new support files.

WinRK v3.0.12 (10 February 2006)

• The Counts weren't inc/decrementing properly when a new performance was entered.

• When importing a set of search results the AKAs weren't being copied correctly.

• Some messages were added to improve error and performance reporting.

• Microsoft's 'day zero' bug meant that any performances on 30 December 1899 would be stored as '00:00:00' instead of ‘30/12/1899’. We think we've fixed all occurrences...

• A new item, Rebuild counts, has been added to the Tools menu. Selecting this item will cause all counts to be rebuilt from scratch.

  Warning - this function may take some time to complete!

WinRK v3.0.11 (23 January 2006)

• The Import routines saved the ringer names in the wrong format.

• Publication information was lost on an import from a search.

• Ringer AKAs were not imported from a search.

• Performances were not in strict date order when printing All Performances or All Performances (Single line).

• The tool tips were incorrect on page two of the Methods wizard.

• When a new Method was entered into a new Performance the method count was not added.

• If the Tower bell count was changed the tower wouldn't update.

• The user message displayed when there was unsaved data and the Cancel button was pressed on the Performances wizard was incorrect.

• Handbell Quarters were not printing correctly.

• Counts reporting has been added.

• Debug is now turned on by default.

• A new item, Select all, has been added to the Print menu.

• The extension for import files has been changed from .CSV to .PBR. This is because .CSV is used by Excel and import files edited and re-saved using Excel can become unusable by WinRK.

• The Quarters report has been changed to landscape orientation to provide more space for ringer names.

WinRK v3.0.10 (17 January 2006)

• The Towers wizard crashed if an edit to a tower, with no recorded bells, was attempted.

• The Import routines incorrectly stored the number of bells in a tower.

• Selecting Help when no spreadsheet, dialog or wizard was open would cause a crash.

• The total number of performances in the selected tower by the selected ringer has been added to the Tower Circling dialog.

WinRK v3.0.9 (11 January 2006)

• We left some debug code in the Email procedures - sorry.

• While communicating with Val and David Fox it was discovered that an invalid Activation Code did not display a message to that effect.

• Thanks to Mark Wilson we found that a tower, in which there had been no performances, was selected in the Tower Circling dialog then it caused a crash.

• It has come to our notice that very occasionally a system file necessary for the email system is not present some computers. This file has been added to the installation.

• Extra debugging has been added to enable you to help us help you...

WinRK v3.0.8 (9 January 2006)

• A major bug crept into v3.0.7 which prevented performances from being printed.

• Jim Clatworthy found that if a Composer record was modified then it was lost from the Counts spreadsheet.

WinRK v3.0.7 (7 January 2006)

• The tool tip on the Close Performance View icon was incorrect.

• An erroneous entry 'F12' in the Print menu has been removed.

• When several addresses at once were selected from the email Address Book they were not automatically selected. This caused the Apply button to remain disabled.

• The Update button on the Rings wizard (page 3) was not enabled if the Tower or Tenor were changed (page 2).

• A new report has been added that will produce a certificate of the selected performance.

Con2v3 v1.0.3 (4 January 2006)

• The county count was incorrectly storing a count when there had been no performances in that county. It now stores zero - as it should!

WinRK v3.0.6 (2 January 2006)

• Pressing Enter in the Footnotes text entry box in the Performances wizard produced an error message.

• Changes to the Volume in the Publications wizard were not saved.

• The updates button remained disabled after changing the Tower or Tenor on page two of the Rings wizard.

WinRK v3.0.5 (31 December 2005)

• The quarters report failed on some databases, the new report is included in both WinRK installations as well as in the Reports download.

• The renumbering function was not taking multiple performances on the same day into consideration.

• We've added complex filtering to all Dedication and Method text entry boxes. This means that you're able to filter the dedications and methods by section. See Using Filters in the new help file for more information.

• The help file has been updated to include the new filters.

Con2v3 v1.0.2 (31 December 2005)

• Neil Williams informed us that multiple performances on the same day were not being copied in the same order as they were stored in v2. They are now!

• Performances rung on non-contiguous bells were not being converted correctly.

Con2v3 v1.0.1 (29 December 2005)

• Caroline Mitchell had an error in one of her v2 databases that caused Con2v3 to hang. We've improved the error checking to include a solution to this problem.

WinRK v3.0.4 (28 December 2005)

• Barry Fisher found a bug that had crept into the Rings wizard. It is no more...

• A debugger has been added to help us eradicate reported bugs. This may be turned on or off using the Debugger item in the Help menu.

  When turned on a file called WinRKv3.debug will be created in the \WinRK v3 folder and it's this file that should be sent when reporting bugs.

  Both the .log and .debug files are deleted and recreated every time WinRK is run so please copy them immediately after encountering a problem.

• The help file has been update to include the debugger.

WinRK v3.0.3 (23 December 2005)

• We forgot to modify the Performance View window  to reflect the ring name selection change introduced in v3.0.1. It's in now!

WinRK v3.0.2 (21 December 2005)

• Added a dialler to the email send routines and improved the error handling.

• The help file has been updated to include the dialler.

WinRK v3.0.1 (16 December 2005)

• Several minor bugs crawled out of the woodwork - and have been exterminated.

• A check box has been added to the Rings wizard that, when checked, will allow the ring name to be printed on the Performances reports as 'Rung on the <Ring Name> peal.