Create Songbook difficulties

[Sandy2u]

I have just purchased the newest version of Hoster and am inputting CDG's. When I tried to create and print a songbook, I get an error message that says 'close songbook.rtf file that is open in the selected viewer and try again'. Well I have no such file open and I can not figure out how to create the songbook. Anyone else with the problem?

[Doug Bracey]

click on start go to wordpad click and open it then go to file and click on save as drop down to program files,then microtechnologys, then hoster then songbook then at the bottom type in SongBook and save it then you can create your songbooks.

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by Doug Bracey

click on start go to wordpad click and open it then go to file and click on save as drop down to program files,then microtechnologys, then hoster then songbook then at the bottom type in SongBook and save it then you can create your songbooks believe me I went through hell with it too.

You also need to change the file type (second box) to RTF.

[DJGeorge]

The latest update seemed to caused this problem. Apparently the program can not create a songbook unless one already exists. You can also use word to create a file "songbook.rtf" and save it to the "Hoster\Songbook" directory.

Tisk .. tisk.. tisk.... sloppy coding..
George

[Sandy2u]

Thanks Doug, Dale, and DJGeorge, I will give this solution a try and hopefully be on my way to creating a songbook. Sorry for the late reply, I have limited computer access since I am on the road.

[admin]

Thank you for pointing out this problem! It is fixed in 3.315, expected to release today. We added extra checking for the presence or absence of the .rtf file to cover all bases.

What is reported here, that MTU and our honored Beta Testers failed to test because we an .rtf file was present, is that deleting the SongBook.rtf fails when it doesn't exist. We assumed (incorrectly) that Microsoft Windows would return a successful result when deleting a file that is not there. We trusted Microsoft's judgement... which sometimes is not as it should be.

[gduns - with the Lord]

i believe this is being worked on, give it a few days, and a new version with a fix should be out.