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Known Problems
Screen Display Corruption
Occasionally, the screen display can become corrupted (e.g. the recorder fingerings will not display). The symptom is that some areas of the screen will not appear correctly, but if you switch to another window (of another running program), and then come back to Recorder Digits, the screen will be OK.
Of course, having to switch to another application and then back to get the display correct is pretty annoying. Instead of doing this, you can now use the Refresh item on the View menu (see The Menu). F5 is the hotkey for this. This forces a screen redraw and seems to always fix the display.
Using this Refresh should only be necessary very occasionally. If it happens a lot, please let me know.
There is one very specific, very rare, condition where I know that the screen gets corrupted:
Create an external fingering file that has an O (Octave Bitmap) Record for all 3 octaves, but where Octave 2's bitmap image is absent - i.e. the load of the image on octave 2 will fail and alternate text will be displayed.
Load the file
Octave 1's bitmap scale will appear correctly.
Switch to Octave 2. The alternate text will appear because the bitmap image is missing
Switch back to Octave 1. The bitmap scale image for Octave 1 does not appear.
Pressing F5 to refresh the screen makes Octave 1's bitmap scale appear correctly.
Even though I can recreate the condition, I have not been able to fix it. Hopefully, there aren't more common instances where a refresh must be forced by the user.
Large Font Problem
Prior to version 2.50, the program's display did not line up correctly if the user's system was configured to use Large Fonts (see below for instructions on how to check this).
Prior to 2.50, the display appeared like this:

Version 2.50 has corrected this problem, with one minor exception. The display now looks like this:

The one remaining minor problem is that any graphics displayed by the program will be too small for the expanded screen caused by the large fonts (other than the recorder pictures, which now line up correctly). This means that the scale display no longer lines up with the Note Buttons directly below it. Clicking on a note on the scale may or may not bring up the correct note. However, the Note Buttons themselves work fine, and all other aspects of the program work correctly.
You will find that External files (see External Files - General Description) that use graphics may look kind of odd. For example, in the Supplied file - NORMTRIL.TXT, the horizontal line across the screen (separating half-step above and full-step above trills) is too short. Again, this is because graphics are too small for the expanded screen. However, all other aspects work OK.
The Large Text Panel (see Show Large Text Panel Checkbox for more info) may not work quite right on some older systems. For example, in Windows 98 the word wrap on some text may not look correct, with the ending letters of some words hidden and unviewable. This does not seem to happen with Windows XP.
Are You Using Large Fonts?
To determine if you are using Large Fonts, follow the instructions below.
The Large Font setting is found in the Display Properties system dialog. You can get to this dialog by doing the following:
Click the right mouse button anywhere on your desktop. A box will pop up.
Pick the Properties selection. This will bring up the Display Properties dialog.
Pick the Settings tab.
One of the fields on the Settings screen is a Font Size entry. On some systems, including Windows XP, you must click an "Advanced" button on the Settings screen to get to a lower screen containing this entry, which in Windows XP is called DPI setting. The "Small Fonts" setting ("Normal Size" in XP) is the default (further described as "Normal"). A pull-down window allows you to pick others, including Large Fonts ("Large Size" in XP).