What's New in ScorePost?

ScorePost is available for download on the Bonus Software page.

[2019-01-02] Changes in ScorePost 3.16:

Suppress web browser "Script Error" messages.
Set web browser feature options.
Fix: Address bar sometimes shows an incorrect URL.

[2018-12-20] Change in ScorePost 3.15:

Configure the built-in web browser window to use the most recent Internet Explorer available.

[2018-11-22] Changes in ScorePost 3.14:

Confirm Posting dialog: New menu command: View Score File.
If an error occurs and logging is not available, show the relevant file path in the error message box.
BridgeWebs: Log the pathname of uploaded ACBLscore files.
Help→About: Provide ScorePost website link in the "About" box.
Help topics: Clarifications to the "Setup Dialog" help topic.
Help topics: Provide email address to request software support.
Fix: Handle three-letter game sections.

[2017-03-02] Change in ScorePost 3.12:

Remove mention of precisely how BridgeComposer "Check Score Data" displays results, since this changed in BridgeComposer 5.63.

[2016-03-06] Key features and bug fixes in ScorePost 3.11:

Confirm Posting: Hand Records column auto-fill: Search all folders that have been used previously to attach hand records.
New menu command: View→Hand Record Folders.
Index→Browse Website Index Page:
- Fix: Check for Setup required.
- Fix: Avoid hang if file not found.
Fix: Identify Score File dialog: Would not allow empty section (for team games).
Fix: Posting team games: Infer session time (Morning, Afternoon, or Evening) from filename.
Fix: Session time (Morning, Afternoon, or Evening) missing from index page links to team games.
Fix: Index→Index Website: Avoid traversing the "download board" folders.

[2015-10-06] Key features and bug fixes in ScorePost 3.9:

ScorePost 3.9 requires BridgeComposer 5.53.1 or later.

New menu command: Index→Edit Index.
New menu command: Index→Browse Website Index Page.
New menu command: View→Upload Progress Bar. (Caution: May cause uploads to fail on Windows 8.1. Seems to work OK with other Windows, including 7 and 10.)
Automatically refresh all webpages to be sure the most recent version is displayed.
View→Logfile, View→Source, [View File] button: New toolbar to search for text strings.
Improve the "Identify Score File" dialog.
Help topics: Use, rather than avoid, the serial comma.
Setup/Computer: New option: "Alert when the hand record field is not filled".
Setup/Computer: New options to invoke BridgeComposer "Check Score Data". (This detects potential scoring errors.)

Fix: After a fresh install, the message "ProgramData.bin was not found" could occur.
Fix: Installer sometimes installed program files in the "C:\" folder, rather than the intended folder.
Fix: First index page of multi-page index: List events up to eight days from first event listed (rather than from current date).
Fix: When ScorePost prompted for a score file date, the date was not displayed in the index listing.
Fix: If a score file with manually-entered date was reposted, it might have been uploaded to the wrong subdirectory and not correctly indexed.
Fix: Avoid having multiple instances of ScorePost running at the same time.
Fix: Posting warnings that are not displayed (because of a previous reply of "Yes to All") should still be logged.

[2014-01-14] Fix in ScorePost 3.8.3:

Fix: A bad text file could result in a "The parameter is incorrect" failure during indexing.

[2013-10-24] Fix in ScorePost 3.8.2:

Fix: Upload to BridgeWebs crashes ScorePost (regression in 3.8).

[2013-10-22] Fixes in ScorePost 3.8.1:

Fix: FTP upload does not work on Windows 8.1. (Unfortunately, with this workaround, ScorePost can no longer display a "progress bar" for FTP uploads.)
Fix: "Identify Score File" dialog: [View File] button does not work for local files.

[2013-10-15] Key features and bug fixes in ScorePost 3.8:

Confirm Posting dialog: "Help" button and topic.
Confirm Posting dialog: Checkbox control that checks or unchecks all items.
Confirm Posting dialog: Option to automatically fill the Hand Records column (if a systematically-named hand record file exists).
Posting-warning message boxes ("already posted", "more than four hours old"): "Yes to All" button; "Help" button.
New command: View→History.
During startup, log the program version number.
Fix: A message box, stating "No error occurred", appears when more than about 500 files are in the GAMEFILE directory.

[2013-05-21] Key features in ScorePost 3.7:

Multipage index: Reformat the "Older results" index page. (See http://atlantaduplicatebridgeclub.com/game_resultsByMonth.htm for a sample.)
Support BridgeComposer 5.43 "Download board" links in generated HTML files.
Allow attachment of hand record files in .bri format.
File "Open" and "Save As" dialogs: Enable dialog resizing on Windows XP also.
Logfile: Log additional information if an error occurs.
Specify the "type=" attribute for hand record download links.
Enable an additional .exe security feature: Address space load randomization.
Apply digital signatures to the .msi and .exe files.
Help topics: Clarify, in the first topic, that ScorePost requires FTP access to the web server.
Help topics: Change references to the BridgeComposer command "Import From ACBLscore" to "Import Score Data".

[2013-03-21] Bug fix in ScorePost 3.6.3:

Fix: ScorePost 3.6.2 was displaying "version 3.6.1" in its About box.

[2013-03-21] Bug fix in ScorePost 3.6.2:

Fix: For BridgeComposer 5.41, the version number was being retrieved as 0.0. Get the correct BridgeComposer version number.

[2012-07-11] Bug fixes in ScorePost 3.6.1:

Fix: Display an explicit status message when waiting on BridgeComposer, in case BridgeComposer needs operator attention.
Fix: The "Upload to subdirectories" Setup option was not working for non-Windows servers.
Fix: Index Website was not working if the Score File Template Filename had extension .html rather than .htm.

[2012-05-12] Key features and bug fixes in ScorePost 3.6:

New Setup option to create a multipage index (recent results web page plus one web page for each month of results). See http://atlantaduplicatebridgeclub.com/game_results.htm for a sample.
New Setup option to upload files to a subdirectory (by year and month) of the Score File Directory.
Setup: Display the parameter sections using tabs.
Limit the logfile size to about 2 megabytes, by discarding older entries as needed. Relocate the logfile to the common application data folder.
The install option for "Just Me" has been removed. See Multiple Versions Problem for details, but substitute "ScorePost" where it says "BridgeComposer".
Use the BridgeComposer /quiet option to avoid "No TS score data found" message boxes.
Support UTF-8 encoding in template files.
Index→Index Website command: Show, in the status message, that the File→Cancel command may be used.
Fix: The message "Setup: Changes saved" was being issued even when the changes were canceled.
Fix: After initial install, ScorePost may have complained that BridgeComposer was not installed or licensed even if it actually was.

[2010-09-01] Key features and bug fixes in ScorePost 3.5:

Setup option for active vs. passive FTP mode.
Setup option to rebuild index by scanning website after all posting operations.
Setup option to convert and link to hand records in PDF format (adds an optional new [PDF] link to the index page).
Change the optional index page [Hand Records] link to be [PBN], [DLM], [DUP] or [LIN] (depending on the supplied format).
Template file marker lines: ignore leading and trailing white space.
Fix crash when a template file is not found on the web server.
Avoid starting up as a tiny window in the upper left of the screen.
Ensure that the .ssu file association is set during install.
Extract the section letter properly from LIST (F8) ACBLscore reports.
Check that a compatible version of BridgeComposer is installed.

[2010-07-01] Key features and bug fixes in ScorePost 3.4:

Support for the www.bridgewebs.com bridge club web hosting service.
ScorePost now requires that BridgeComposer be installed and licensed (30-day free trial license applies).
Option to upload hand record files (.pbn, etc.) and link to them. (Caution: may require web server configuration change -- see the Help file).
New Setup option: Oldest [date] To Index.
Format TS data into BridgeComposer Score Tables even when there is no hand record file and no wireless scoring device file.
Fix upload stalling until you wiggle the mouse.
Allow hand records in .dlm format.
Remember the last hand record file type used, and select it next time.
Enable F1 to bring up Help in Setup.
Setup: Log details of all changes made.