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Forum: Handicapping Software

08-14-2022, 11:36 AM

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Posted By headhawg

I was just writing a reply asking you do do just...

I was just writing a reply asking you do do just that, OzYank. :) Glad you found a workaround.

So, it's definitely something about your system as other people seem to be able to use the download...

Forum: Handicapping Software

08-13-2022, 02:10 PM

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Posted By headhawg

Thanks for the clarification UnifiedTheory. I...

Thanks for the clarification UnifiedTheory. I was worried that there was some weird bug in the code. Thanks again for the kind words and best of luck to you!

Forum: Handicapping Software

08-08-2022, 08:24 PM

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Posted By headhawg

That's a generic error message I put in when the...

That's a generic error message I put in when the Equibase file is not downloaded. I have Bitdefender and use its firewall; my guess is that Kaspersky has one too. HDST must have a rule configured...

Forum: Handicapping Software

08-08-2022, 04:29 PM

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Posted By headhawg

@Floyd -- somewhere early in this thread I talked...

@Floyd -- somewhere early in this thread I talked about the issue with the #1 horse, but I will mention it again here. With some/all of NCG's programs (and possibly others) information in the data...

Forum: Handicapping Software

08-06-2022, 02:39 PM

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Posted By headhawg

Reviving this thread because I have been asked to...

Reviving this thread because I have been asked to update HDST by one of the good guys here. I am curious if anyone else still uses HDST. If yes, please respond with any issues you are having. It's...

Forum: Handicapping Software

05-19-2019, 09:01 AM

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Posted By headhawg

Thanks for the update dartman. I only had one...

Thanks for the update dartman. I only had one Bris IND file from last year and it seemed to work fine, so debugging this might have taken me longer than I wanted. And Unified_Theory's post gives me...

Forum: Handicapping Software

05-17-2019, 11:49 PM

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Posted By headhawg

Hmm...I don't like releasing a program (even a...

Hmm...I don't like releasing a program (even a free one) with this kind of bug. Give me a little time and I will try to fix it. Does this happen with every IND file no matter the date, or only...

Forum: Handicapping Software

05-15-2019, 02:15 PM

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Posted By headhawg

Hmm...that's interesting. There must be...

Hmm...that's interesting. There must be something different about IND. I don't have a Bris file to test so I am also curious if others are having the problem.

Forum: Handicapping Software

05-11-2019, 09:12 AM

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Posted By headhawg

You're welcome U_T. I have taken away a lot of...

You're welcome U_T. I have taken away a lot of good things from PA and so I wanted to give something back to the community. I am happy that people find HDST useful.

Forum: Handicapping Software

05-09-2019, 08:40 AM

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Posted By headhawg

PA member Unified_Theory made a request for HDST...

PA member Unified_Theory made a request for HDST v1.2 so I thought I would just post it here. v1.2 adds the option to enable safe mode; in prior versions safe mode was always on. Post #26 explains...

Forum: Handicapping Software

02-26-2019, 12:00 PM

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Posted By headhawg

Good to know dartman. I am also happy to see that...

Good to know dartman. I am also happy to see that people are making use of it. Not being a professional programmer, I worked hard on getting it to work correctly. HDST is especially useful if you...

Forum: Handicapping Software

02-17-2019, 02:51 PM

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Posted By headhawg

Bumping this thread as I need some feedback. For...

Bumping this thread as I need some feedback. For those of you who have used HDST, what do you think of the scratch/unscratch interface? Second question: of the software that you have used, which one...

Forum: Handicapping Software

03-12-2018, 10:08 AM

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Posted By headhawg

Update: HDST v1.1

Attached is the latest version. Here are the changes:

- Fixed: Bug that created a 0 byte file if the user clicked on Save New File without having a data file loaded.
* Added: A date check...

Forum: Handicapping Software

03-11-2018, 01:00 PM

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Posted By headhawg

BUG warning -- Don't click on the Save New File...

BUG warning -- Don't click on the Save New File button unless you have a data file loaded. It won't crash the program but will write a zero byte file named "m". Rookie mistake; bug squashed for...

Forum: Handicapping Software

03-11-2018, 12:42 PM

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Posted By headhawg

Mike has informed me that CompuTrak doesn't like...

Mike has informed me that CompuTrak doesn't like the modified file name. He says that if the modified file is renamed back to the original name it works fine.

BTW, HDST is really designed to be...

Forum: Handicapping Software

03-11-2018, 10:49 AM

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Posted By headhawg

mmdorn (of Handifast fame and one of my testers)...

mmdorn (of Handifast fame and one of my testers) let me know that he loaded the modified file into several programs, homegrown and commercial. They included NCG's programs, QuickPlay, Hurst's Horse...

Forum: Handicapping Software

03-11-2018, 08:59 AM

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Posted By headhawg

I'm attaching yesterday' (3/10) scratch file. ...

I'm attaching yesterday' (3/10) scratch file. Put it in the main HDST folder so that you can give the program a test run using yesterday's data files. Once you use the Download Scratch File button...

Forum: Handicapping Software

03-10-2018, 08:37 PM

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Posted By headhawg

HDST version 1.00

So here goes. I am attaching the scratch program. Officially it's called Headhawg's Datafile Scratch Tool or HDST. It seems to work fine but there are bugs left in it no doubt -- I just haven't...

Forum: Handicapping Software

03-10-2018, 02:15 PM

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Posted By headhawg

I finished coding the workaround which I am...

I finished coding the workaround which I am referring to as "Safe Mode". I figured what the hell -- I already have a bunch of hours into this so I may as well see it to completion.

So what does...

Forum: Handicapping Software

03-10-2018, 12:10 AM

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Posted By headhawg

I think I know what the issue is. In the data...

I think I know what the issue is. In the data file the first horse in each race contains fields of race information that no other horse has in its record. Specifically I am referring to Fields 16...

Forum: Handicapping Software

03-09-2018, 10:30 PM

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Posted By headhawg

The good news: the modified data file loads in...

The good news: the modified data file loads in Equisim, Excel, and Handifast.
The bad news: the modified file will NOT load into any of NCG's programs or Pandy's PowerPace.

I have spent way too...

Forum: Handicapping Software

03-09-2018, 12:12 PM

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Posted By headhawg

Murphy's Law, of course. Scratches didn't work...

Murphy's Law, of course. Scratches didn't work correctly due to the incorrect parsing of the xml file. I told you that I hated parsing. :) Fixed version sent to the testers so hopefully they will...

Forum: Handicapping Software

03-09-2018, 09:29 AM

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Posted By headhawg

The obvious reply to you Vinnie is that I wish I...

The obvious reply to you Vinnie is that I wish I knew how to code, too. :D

Programming is both rewarding and frustrating for me. I have given up on the scratch tool at least three times but...

Forum: Handicapping Software

03-08-2018, 11:05 PM

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Posted By headhawg

Update

The scratch screen appears to work correctly when the user scratches/unscratches. It also reads the downloaded Equibase xml file and populates the scratched horses list box. A couple of my testers...

Forum: Handicapping Software

02-28-2018, 04:45 PM

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Posted By headhawg

Almost gave up on this as I lost a lot of...

Almost gave up on this as I lost a lot of whatever coding skill I had. Anyway, still plugging along. I am not in love with the scratch screen by any means but what I wanted to do requires delving...

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