Homeschool Solutions 3rd Edition, Revision History:
Version 3.55 (Apr 26, 2002)
1. Fixed a bug which caused database not to be loaded on startup.
Version 3.54 (Apr 19, 2002)
1. Updated tech support information.
Version 3.53 (Mar 20, 2002)
1. Revised the ordering form.
Version 3.52 (Feb 16, 2002)
1. Adding more than 2000 characters of text to a single unit study record no longer crashes the program.
Version 3.51 (Jan 22, 2002)
1. A warning is now provided if you attempt to backup your data to a drive which does not have enough free disk space.
Version 3.50 (Nov 20, 2001)
1. Fixed possible problem with registration codes not being retained on WinNT/2000 systems.
Version 3.49 (Oct 31, 2001)
1. Added support for password overriding.
Version 3.48 (Sep 30, 2001)
1. Increased the editable area of the Log Hours grid to allow for abnormally large font sizes.
Version 3.47 (Sep 27, 2001)
1. Fixed a bug with renaming and deletion of course names containing apostrophes.
Version 3.46 (Sep 26, 2001)
1. Fixed a possible bug with renaming courses and terms.
Version 3.45 (Sep 25, 2001)
1. Redesigned the student selection mechanism to prevent daily lesson and log hours records from getting jumbled between students.
2. Compacted the database to reduce the minimum size from 1.3MB to 830KB. It should now fit more easily on a floppy disk.
Version 3.44 (Sep 21, 2001)
1. Fixed a Y2K issue with date selection in the lesson planner.
2. Fixed a possible problem with font size on the Log Hours grid.
Version 3.43 (Aug 23, 2001)
1. Fixed a bug where grading preferences sometimes wouldn't be preserved.
Version 3.42 (Aug 20, 2001)
1. Better error handling has been added in case picture logo file can't be found.
Version 3.41 (Aug 5, 2001)
1. You can now store separate unit study records for each term.
Version 3.40 (Jul 14, 2001)
1. Installer has been updated.
Version 3.39 (Jul 2, 2001)
1. Improved error handling. If a fatal crash occurs, your database is now automatically saved to 'Emergency Backup.jmhs3' before exiting.
2. Fractional hours are once more retained when printing Log Hours.
Version 3.38 (Jun 28, 2001)
1. You may now still use the program on even-numbered days after the trial period expires.
2. Cleaned up the course list printing.
Version 3.37 (June 26, 2001)
1. The attendance bug assumed to be fixed in v3.33 was not actually fixed but merely dormant. The code has now been completely rewritten in another way to fix the bug rather than waiting for it to manifest again.
Version 3.36 (June 10, 2001)
1. Fixed a bug where Log Hours courses would be listed in the wrong order on the print preview.
2. Fixed a bug where test scores on the transcript preview page would be printed incorrectly.
3. Buttons on the main screen have now been separated into groups.
4. The dialog to browse for a file no longer displays the checkbox, 'Open as read-only'.
Version 3.35 (June 5, 2001)
1. Print preview form now displays more quickly.
2. User preferences have now been reorganized into Printing, Grading, and Backup prefences. The backup preferences are new - there is now an automatic backup option. Automatic backup is enabled by default to backup your database file once every 20 times the program is run.
3. The error message you get now if you try to open your database file from a read-only area such as a CD-ROM is more helpful.
Version 3.34 (May 23, 2001)
1. Changes to grading preferences are now remembered.
Version 3.33 (May 23, 2001)
1. Fixed a bug where the attendance form records for December would be written to January, tidied up the attendance form.
Version 3.32 (May 19, 2001)
1. The student hours form once again prints correctly.
Version 3.31 (May 8, 2001)
1. Installer now adds icon to desktop.
Version 3.30 (Apr 30, 2001)
1. Fixed a printing bug with the Student Info Notes screen where the bottom line was skipped.
Version 3.29 (Apr 30, 2001)
1. Registration is now automatic when installing the software from CD.
Version 3.28 (Apr 24, 2001)
1. Shared files are once more installed to the correct location.
Version 3.27 (Apr 21, 2001)
1. All known printing bugs have been fixed.
Version 3.26 (Apr 3, 2001)
1. Fixed the feature introduced in v3.18 to allow identically named courses to be assigned to different students.
2. Preferred email address for all correspondence has now changed to 'help@homeschoolsolutions.com'.
Version 3.25 (Mar 31, 2001)
1. Fixed run-time error 13 which occurred when printing grades.
Version 3.24 (Feb 18, 2001)
1. You can now store a different set of attendance records for each term for a given student, instead of having to share one attendance record for a student across all terms.
2. The keyboard focus for the attendance form now defaults to the current day, and the focus in the lesson planner now defaults to the assignments column.
3. Fixed a bug introduced in v3.10 where the attenance grid control would display scroll bars.
4. Improved the speed of the attendance form.
Version 3.23 (Feb 8, 2001)
1. Fixed a bug introduced in v3.10 with page margins for lesson planner and transcript print previews.
Version 3.22 (Feb 2, 2001)
1. The Database backup option has been fixed. It now actually does a backup.
Version 3.21 (Feb 1, 2001)
1. Fixed crash which would occur if you launched the program without a database file.
Version 3.20 (Feb 1, 2001)
1. Fixed a bug introduced in version 3.18 which caused the wrong course to be opened for viewing/editing.
Version 3.19 (Jan 24, 2001)
1. Fixed a bug where deleting a student could cause lesson planner, hours, and attendance entries to be moved to one student.
Version 3.18 (Jan 14, 2001)
1. Fixed two bugs introduced in v3.10 regarding editing and deleting courses.
2. You may now re-use course names between different school terms, so long as they don't overlap in the lesson planner.
3. Fixed a bug introduced in v3.10 regarding the lesson planner's 'Clear All' button.
Version 3.17 (Jan 10, 2001)
1. Fixed bug 3426 which would sometimes occur when adding records.
Version 3.16 (Jan 4, 2001)
1. Transcripts are now printed one term at a time, instead of bunching all the terms for a given grade level together.
2. You can print a transcript for all grade levels by leaving the grade level limits blank.
3. The daily lesson print range is now stored as a user preference.
Version 3.15 (Jan 4, 2001)
1. Fixed a bug introduced in v3.11 which caused lesson planner entries to be skipped during printing.
Version 3.14 (Jan 4, 2001)
1. Fixed a bug introduced in v3.12 where going to the lesson planner when no lesson planner entries were defined would result in a crash.
Version 3.13 (Dec 25, 2000)
1. The program now includes an updated version of the ViewPro32 ActiveX control and will no longer crash when attempting to print if you have a later version of the control already installed on your system.
Version 3.12 (Dec 24, 2000)
1. All data, including user preferences, is now stored within a single database file.
2. There are now options on the File menu to Open, Backup and create New database files.
Version 3.11 (Dec 14, 2000)
1. The daily lesson planner now handles starting dates in a new way. Courses now have a lesson planner button to adjust the starting and ending dates for each course individually. Accordingly, you can set these dates to any day you choose (not including weekends).
2. Daily lesson information is now displayed in the course dialog.
3. The daily lesson planner now defaults to opening at the first entry corresponding to today's date.
4. Homeschool Solutions Help files have been converted to the new HTML Help format. To view them, you will need to have at least Internet Explorer 3.0 (not included) and the HTML Help Viewer 1.1 (included).
5. A 'Remove Password' option has now been added to turn off password protection.
Version 3.10 (Nov 3, 2000)
1. Homeschool Solutions now uses the InnoSetup installer instead of the Package and Deployment Wizard. You no longer need to uninstall a previous version of the software in order to update it.
2. The installer now deletes ALL Homeschool Solutions files created in the program's installed directory when the program is uninstalled.
3. These notes you are reading are now contained in the file 'readme.txt', instead of being stored within the program.
4. Version 3.10 fixes all other known bugs with the installer.
Version 3.01 (Oct 13, 2000)
1. The program no longer displays 'run-time error 3265' when printing lesson plans.
2. The program no longer displays a 'No Current Record' error message when printing a report card.
3. The program no longer crashes saying, 'Syntax error (missing operator) in query expression.......' when apostrophes are used in Student, Term, and Course names.
4. You can no longer create multiple Students, Terms, or Courses with identical names in the same list. This fixes a bug where deletion of such a record would delete all records which shared that name.
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