News 2007-2012
19-Dec-2012
New in TopTurnier V7.3 WDSF-Edition
- New: TopTurnier certified for the use in the WDSF
- New: Connection to WDSF DB implemented (download DB, check officials, check couples, upload live results)
- New: User interface modernized
- New: TopTurnier is now completely working with Unicode charset
- New: New archive formate for storing the event data (tt7 replaces top and cta)
- New: TabletServer: Many new possibilities, now full-screen mode for Android
- New: Now 6 printers can be predefined
- New: Do full-backups regularly by time interval
- New: New Checkin mode: Checkin competition by competition to search by start number (some events need this mode)
- New: Combine checkin search with barcode scanning of ID cards (e.g. with barcode scanners from MANHATTAN)
- New: Options->Directories: Define automatic internet export for a running competition
- New: TopProjector now shows country flags at selected projections
- Changed: Checkin: optimized window order at checkin
- Changed: Modified behaviour of Country input fields. Now opening country list after 3 entered characters for faster selection
- Changed: Copy to USB-Stick/Get from USB-Stick improved
- Changed: Competition part: Back button does not ask for allowance anymore
- Changed: Network: Speed optimizations
- Changed: Autoprint does not change the earlier selected printer for normal prints anymore
- Fixed: Sometimes a competition was kept under network usage, although already closed
- Fixed: Print out of single adjudicators sheets often printed all sheets
- Fixed: Problems solved with update download function
- Fixed: Adj. schedule: calculation of pages optimized, PIN numbers on that list if used
- Fixed: Several smaller problems
5-Mar-2012
New in TopTurnier V7.1 WDSF-Edition
- New: DigiServer for communication with Digital Adj. Sheets as separate program with overview over all found D.A.S.
- New: Support for the next generation of Digital Adj. Sheets based on Android devices
- New: Support for competitions with changing number of dances per round
- New: Check-In option to allow late registrations with status "registered" (no immediate check-in)
- New: TopProjector completely revised
now usable with all projector resolutions 800x600 and higher
for aspect ratios 4:3, 16:9, 16:10
adjust font sizes individually
new data projections: Infotext and video (Video is experimentally) - New: New usage mode for wireless D.A.S.: Adjudicators request data by PIN code
- Changed: Automatic selection of heat list type modified to recent WDSF rules
- Fixed: Print competition lists: "Qualified Starters" print-out was empty
- Fixed: Several smaller problems
2-Sep-2011
New in TopTurnier V7.0 WDSF-Edition
- New: Start fee manager with many configuration options
- New: TopTurnier module: TabletServer with info-service on tablets/webpads for comperes (e.g. on Apple iPad)
- New: TopTurnier module: TopMonitor now available for all customers of TopTurnier-WDSF
Displays information on Monitors/LCD in lobby/dressing rooms, e.g. qualified starters, heat lists, results, photos/ads. Control via network - New: TopTurnier module: TopProjector now available for all customers of TopTurnier-WDSF
Displays information via projectors onto the wall of the hall, e.g. qual.+elim. starters, heat lists, final marking, final dance results, price presentation, ads - New: TopMonitor can be synchronized automatically with competition state to show heat lists
- New: 10-dance: Print-out of temporary results after one section in prel. rounds
- New: Wireless D.A.S: Now assigning of judges to devices possible on event level
- New: Cable and Wireless D.A.S.: Now possible to handle 20 couples per heat (D.A.S. owners please ask for device software update)
- New: Auto-print: Title page added as print-out
- New: Short cut in TopTurnier folder assigned to events folder location
- New: WDSF PD now completely implemented
- New: Freestyle and PD Showdance implemented
- Changed: IDSF is now WDSF, competition titles and print-outs changed
- Changed: Data backup fundamentally revised
- Changed: Multi-day classes now possible
- Changed: Input of stars for seeded couples simplified (startlist mask and search function)
- Changed: Wireless D.A.S.: Filled adj. sheets can be printed without having the D.A.S. dll
- Changed: Program booklet can now be printed without title page
- Changed: Auto-print: After complete print the same printer is selected as before, indepentently of last printer used within auto-print
- Changed: Folder for update is now saved also in c:\programdata\TopTurnier-IDSF
- Fixed: 10-dance: problem solved with some print-outs
- Fixed: TopCheckin: Start numbers print-out did not print the class name when using global numbering
27-Nov-2010
New in TopTurnier V6.8a IDSF-Edition
- New: Supporting now RLS database for IDSF couples (login data will be given by IDSF in 2012)
- New: Possibility to use global startnumbers at events with computer checkin
- New: Search function for starters with direct access to status values, more functions
- New: Number of max. classes increased to 250 per event
- New: TopTurnier needs now at least Win2000 and administrator rights for installation
User specific data now saved at C:\programdata\TopTurnier-IDSF\ (Vista, Win7) or at
C:\documents and settings\allusers\application data\TopTurnier-IDSF\ (Win2000, XP).
Old data will be moved at first start of TopTurnier. - New: Wireless DAS: Function for deletion of wrong loaded data in all PDAs at once
- Fixed: Checkin: Printing of corrected startlist crashed
- Fixed: Checkin now better at names collissions (Partner or Lady)
- Fixed: Check-in of the last couple in index was not possible
- and many more small things
4-Apr-2009
New in TopTurnier V6.6 IDSF-Edition
- New: Web exports modified for IDSF championships acception
- New: Startlist window: Letters register at the left side in all starters tab
- New: Startlist window: Changing tab from class list to all starters: Last selected couple will be pre-selected
- New: Now 15 diplome preset formats possible
- New: Judges and team members can be copied to selected classes
- New: Startlist window: Support for mouse scrolling wheel
- New: Starter search function extended by function to search start numbers
- Changed: Marks input mask: It is now possible to change to next judge even if marking is not entered. So it is possible to enter marks if sheets come back in wrong order.
- Changed: Warnings on competition start will be shown VERY clearly now
- Changed: Checkin: Print out of numbers are now sorted by competition start time
- Fixed: Corrected link in competition start window to startlists
- Fixed: Entering many classes could result in predrefined "ghost" data
- Fixed: leaving the classes data with x after changing adjudicators did not save data
- and many more small things
31-Dec-2007
New in TopTurnier V6.5 IDSF-Edition
- New: TopTurnier for Installation on U3-Memorysticks
(setup package on request) - New: Define first startnumber of a competion in classes data before input of starters
- New: Warning when inserting an existing startnumber
- New: Warning when changing names in classes startlist. Question if new names or only correction of existing starter
- New: When opening events system checks if writing on data folder is possible
- New: Print competition program from checkin programm
- New: Print lists dialogue now with class status logos
- Changed: Network chat now faster with less network load
- Changed: Program printout: Absent starters are marked now
- Changed: When inserting double final marks now wrong marks more highlighted
- Fixed: After deletion of all adjudicators wrong idenfificators had been assigned
- Fixed: Starter search signalled "not yet eliminated" instead of "missing"
- Fixed: Diploma designer: Line object wrong
- Fixed: Deleted startlist indexes had not been regenerated automatically
- Fixed: "Search updates" function did not close net file when competition was opened
- and many more small things