[Ted Craven]

Reckless,

The next RDSS update will be early next week, to add an interim factor model export to Excel and CSV files. Unfortunately Printing will still not be included. But it is completely reasonable to ask why not!

For many months (sometimes more, sometimes less) I have been working on essentially a 70% rewrite of the entire RDSS application. Regarding the layout and structure of the software internals ('foundation' and 'plumbing' so to speak): I know now after about 3 years what I wish I knew at the beginning. To do the remaining things I want to do: modelling, wager tracking, profiling, more internet/tote/ADW connectivity, what to speak of better presentation (graphs, better screen size options, printing) - I needed this internal re-working otherwise I'll never make it: the current software hogs too much Windows resources and crashes too much. The new one I'm working on is rock solid, using far less memory, with a spiffy new, more modern User Interface, for starters.

That's the long answer as my excuse for not many updates recently, and for not adding as core a feature as printouts: it will be in the new version. Late Autumn, promise! I hope to have a working demo at Saratoga. Adding the modelling output this week is a fairly minor add-on to the existing version and something which was close to the surface anyway.

I hope you can hang on until printing arrives. I promise you, you will like what you see!

yours,

Ted