WinCyclo

WinCyclo - analysis of Time Trials

WinCyclo Functions

Functional Overview as advertised in RTTC handbook

Latest version - Version 5.01 30th November 2009

This program is now free of charge. Please email me if you require support or wish to make comments, I will do my best to assist but I cannot guarantee it and I would appreciate if you would first download and read the manual WinCyclo.doc. There is no installation program or setup procedure. Please unzip the file wincyclo.zip to a new directory c:\wincyclo, then run wincyclo.exe

WinCyclo was updated to version 5.01 on 30 November 2009 to allow any range of dates on the event selection screen.

If you have never before run WinCyclo or a VB3 app you will also need to download and expand vb3.zip. Place the expanded VBX files either in c:\windows\system or in the WinCyclo directory (normally c:\wincyclo).

WinCyclo.zip
vb3.zip

Documentation is the file wincyclo.doc which is also part of the zip file. Please note that the my address, contact numbers and email address in that document are no longer valid.

Review forums at www.rttc.org.uk for news of any updates.

Enhancements in version - 3.20 25th April 1996

The following fixes and enhancements have been made since the manual was printed:
  1. By adding lines to WinCyclo.ini with an editor (such as NotePad) you have more flexibility on printing the start and results sheets.
    ResultsSheet=n1,n2,n3,.....,nn
    StartSheet=n1,n2,n3,...nn
    Numbers n1, n2,... are as follows:-
    r 1 Position as sorted
    s r 2 Rider number
    s r 3 Rider name
    s r 4 Club Abbreviation
    s r 5 Full club name
    s r 6 Class
    s r 7 Age
    r 8 Improvement on PB
    s r 9 PB
    r 10 Actual Time
    r 11 Plus time
    r 12 Position on actual time
    r 13 Plus position (provided you have sorted on plus)
    s 15 Age Standard time
    s 16 Start time
    s r 17 Standard handicap (release 3.13 and later)
    r 18 Actual time minus Standard handicap (release 3.13 & later)
    s means the number is allowed on the start sheet, r means the number is allowed on the results sheet.

    Examples

    StartSheet=2,3,5,9,17,16
    ResultsSheet=1,3,4,10,11,18
  2. For WORD users, WinCyclo.dot is provided instead of start.dot and result.dot. The easiest way of using WinCyclo.dot (which contains styles StartTabs and ResultTabs) is to use the style Organiser in word to add the styles to normal.dot. The manual describes an alternative method of using the WinCyclo provided styles.
  3. Sponsors are shown and can be changed at any time
  4. Some users have reported that on printing the RTTC form a trap occurred or the RTTC logo was not printed.

    If the logo is not printed on your printer try adding the following line to WinCyclo.ini

    PrintMethod2=Yes

    This causes the logo to be printed pel by pel and should work on
    all printers but is somewhat slower than the default method.
  5. When you close the start form a message is issued if there are riders with blank names. By answering Yes to the message all these unwanted riders can be deleted. IT IS IMPORTANT TO DO THIS BEFORE YOU USE THE SEED RIDERS FUNCTION, otherwise various null rider names will appear in the data.
  6. There were some problems with address label printing in earlier releases which are now fixed. Also, address labels are now printed in the current order of riders on the screen. For example, if you have sorted the riders in name order then the address labels are printed in name order.
  7. Double-click the bicycle and it invokes wincyclx
  8. Various improvements to label printing.
  9. Can have up to 200 riders per event by default. You can have up to 512 riders if you add the following line to WinCyclo.ini
    maxRiders=nnn
    nnn should be between 120 and 512.
  10. checkName=0 in wincyclo.ini disables check that names on start sheet must be entered with initial only, You can now enter forenames with no warnings.
  11. More sophisticated name matching. For example, P Evans and Paul Evans are now considered to be the same person.
  12. When the RTTC form is printed for an under 19 year old, a message is produced reminding of the need for a separate parental consent form.
  13. Better and more complete handline of Mr/Mrs/Miss/Ms on RTTC form.
  14. Remembers Mr/Mrs/Miss/Ms. Deals with this part of result form.
  15. Special support to assist selection of riders when events are over-subscribed. If you expect up to 400 entries and wish to select the fastest 120 proceed as follows:- (a) Before starting WinCyclo, add the following lines to WinCyclo.ini (e.g. using NotePad) reorderSave=Yes maxRiders=400 addressFile=wincyclo.tta I recommend you create a special icon for the event as described in the handbook. (b) Create the new event with a sequence letter of 1. I will assume it is a 25 mile event on 19 June 1996. The name of the data file will be 6Jun19B1.TT (c) Enter all 400 riders in the usual way, including their addresses and PB times for the distance. (e) Sort the riders in PB time order. (f) Click the new save button on the event form (this button only appears if you have reorderSave=Yes in WinCyclo.ini). This will save the riders of the event in the currently sorted order i.e. order of PB times. (g) Using DOS or the Windows file manager, make a copy of the event file, using the correct sequence letter of the event e.g. if it is the fourth 25 mile event in the handbook on the day in question, the sequence letter is D. Issue:- copy 6JUN19B1.TT 6JUN19BD.TT (Make an EXTRA copy on diskette in case anything goes wrong with the following steps. Also make a copy of the address file WinCyclo.TTA) (h) Load the file 6JUN19BD.TT to Notepad or a word processor. You will then see the 400 riders listed in actual time order, Delete all but the first 120 riders, and save the truncated file. (i) Load the file 6JUN19B1.TT into Notepad or a word processor. Delete the first 120 riders, and save the shortened file. (j) In WinCyclo, create an event with the correct sequence letter (D) and you should find the fastest 120 riders are present. The old event with a squence of 1 will now show the remaining riders. (k) Since we are using a common address file, you can print the address labels for the two "events" separately. You may find it convenient to sort riders in name order before printing address labels.
  16. Copes with up to 1000 addresses
  17. Can have up to 200 riders per event
  18. Default font for labels is Times New Roman 12.
  19. Remembers Mr/Mrs/Miss/Ms. Deals with this part of RTTC form.
  20. Default is male not female
  21. saveInterval=nn in WinCyclo.ini (nn in minutes; default is still 10)
  22. On the More data on event analysis, the events are now listed :- First the event being analysed Then events in date order, most recent first.

Problems fixed

  1. After a new club, it maintains the correct rider number.
  2. Start sheet limits name size to 20 characters not 32
  3. Does not trap when rider 121 added
  4. On start sheet, when you add new rider, address is cleared.
  5. Default top and left position of 3 x 7 labels reduced by 5mm.
  6. The default on next on the start sheet is not removed when you add a new rider.
  7. The result sheet reminder message if data not saved after 10 mins appears as it should.
  8. Allows dates to be entered on RTTC form in any form; shows correct age even if system is configured for American style date format.
  9. Results of rider : on some screens (particularly VGA) the data was trucated in the window (i.e. you could not see the PB or position)
  10. Women between 32 and 40 do not have their standard time shown on start window

Version 3.21

  1. "Agree to reserve" remembered on RTTC form when Save & Close used
  2. "Distance of event" remembered on RTTC form when Save & Close used
  3. On name search, if a name is entered containing no blank (e.g. just a surname, or just a forename) a case sensitive substring search is performed.
  4. WinCyclo is terminated properly however you close the event list window.

Version 3.22 (WinCycl.dll 3.21)

  1. Age Standard time (field 15) is now h:mm:ss not mm:ss. Standard handicap (field 17) is still mm:ss.
  2. Double-click version on front screen to edit WinCyclo.ini. After doing this it is necessary to exit and re-start WinCyclo.
  3. Club names can contain &.
  4. Minor change in seeding logic and change in message.

Version 3.23 (WinCycl.dll 3.21 still)

  1. PrintMethod=Yes is now the default. This means that nobody should have a problem printing their RTTC form, though the printing is somewhat slower. If you want a faster print you can try removing the line PrintMethod2=Yes from WinCyclo.ini, but this will not work on all printers.
  2. On the RTTC details, you cannot type in a distance - you MUST select a distance from the list. This ensures line 5 is always re-calculated.
  3. When you print the RTTC form, the system checks that you printer is in portrait mode, not landscape.

Version 3.24 (24th Sept 1996)

Incorporates demo version

***IMPORTANT NOTE ESPECIALLY FOR WINDOWS 95 USERS******

To close a WinCyclo window, click the Cancel, Close, or Exit button; do not close the window by clicking the X on the title bar.

Under certain circumstances, if you close a window by the X, WinCylo will apparently exit but in fact is still running. The consequeence of this is that you will get the message "WinCyclo" is already running if you try to re-start it, or if you try to close down Windows itself.