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The software is supremely easy to use, is fully compliant with
current CIVA FairPlay™
statistical scoring system methodology, and automatically adapts
to decimal or comma arithmetic. Every user form has an Info panel
explaining how to use each feature, to complement the separate fully
descriptive Help system. In addition to comprehensive reporting of all
entered data and great flexibility in the construction of calculated
results onto paper and to the internet, it provides a thorough set of
Judging analysis and a data-logging system giving full access to all of
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To get the ACRO
software running in your PC . . . . |
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Click the green 'Download' button to start the ACRO Installer
Select Run to
install immediately, or save the file and run it on your computer. |
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You do not have to remove the previous
version of the software from your computer, the installer will update
your system as required and all existing ACRO contest, work-files,
pilot-photos and
settings will remain intact. |
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You will now find there are two new
shortcuts on your Desktop:
- The first is to run the ACRO scoring programme, and
- The second is to fire-up the Help system on it's own.
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You can also start ACRO with a contest
file already open by double-clicking the contest filename in Explorer ('some-filename.ctf'),
or you can right-click the file and use the "Open" command from the pop-up
menu. |
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Contest files have a .ctf suffix and are
always recognisable in Explorer by their ACRO logo .... |
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Keeping your ACRO software up-to-date:
Check the build-number in the title against your
current version, or look in the ACRO
Development Log - this is on the Help menu in ACRO and here in
the top-right panel. If there is an updated build
of the software, you can download and install the new version as
detailed above. Your do NOT have to uninstall ACRO before you do
this, just close it down if it is already running. Your existing ACRO contest, log,
work-files, photographs and support
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Important
ACRO
is a .NET Framework application written using Windows
Visual Studio 2005 VB.
During the installation process the Installation Wizard will
check that your Microsoft Windows™ .NET Framework is fully
current, and if necessary will automatically carry out all
necessary upgrades by accessing the internet and
fetching/installing the required material. This could mean a
several-MB download from Microsoft, depending on the current
status of the .NET Framework that is installed in your pc.
If you do have problems operating the software which you think
may be due to the currency of your computer's operating system
VB.NET support software, you can download and install the most
recent version of the "Microsoft .NET Framework Redistributable
Package (x86)" separately - this is freely available from the
link below (correct as at October 2007):
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0856eacb-4362-4b0d-8edd-aab15c5e04f5&displaylang=en |
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