[WriteLog] WriteLog problems on Windows 7 64-bit

[KD3TB]

Jim,

In the RTTY contest this weekend, I used Writelog with MTTY with no major
hick-ups. 

My setup:

Elecraft K3 Radio
Dell Dual Core 32 bit running Windows7 OS

I have also  tested Writelog on my 64 bit laptop, also running Win 7 with no
major problems. Each time I am able to enter the QTH and save the file. 

I prefer to download the contest files directly from the web and then
convert using the Writelog "Convert CTY to Writelog tool". 

Are you able to save the QTH in any other contests? 

There are a few items to look at with Win7:
1) Where has Win7 placed your Writelog.ini file and do you have editing
rights to this file?
2) Win 7 will place your data files in C:\users\documents\writelog\contests,
is this noted in your Writelog.ini file.
3) When you installed Writelog on your Win7 computer, some files may not
have installed correctly? If you did an upgrade of Win Vista to Win 7, you
may have to change some settings as listed above. There are some differences
between Vista and Win7.

Regards, Irwin KD3TB

-----Original Message-----
From: writelog-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:writelog-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Jim Orcheson
Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 4:20 PM
To: writelog at contesting.com
Subject: [WriteLog] WriteLog problems on Windows 7 64-bit

Well I thought I had everything working because I made sure that both 
rig control and CW/RTTY worked, so it was a shock when I tried to use 
WriteLog during the RTTY Roundup contest over the weekend.

After entering the first contact and hitting the enter key, the contact 
would not save and displayed the message:
Field QTH is invalid!
This occured whether I enter a valid state/province or a number.

I did some investigating and have found the following:
1. File -> Web Update Data Files: When I click the Download button, a 
MessageBox flashes and then another is displayed with the not very 
useful message: Download failed!  Looking in the help files there is an 
entry for web update, but it only talks about what happens when the 
download succeeds, so I have no idea why it failed, or where to look for 
information on why it failed.

2. The country list did download and install properly.

3. Contest -> Show Multipliers brings up a window that is about 8 lines 
high and many hundreds/thousands of characters wide. I don't know how 
wide it is, but its more than 10 screens wide. I gave up trying to get 
to the right edge of the window. The window is empty.

4. Super Check Partial does not show any callsigns as I enter a call.

5. I used fldigi for the contest, then exported the log to and ADIF file 
and imported it into WriteLog. DX stations were recognized and 
multipliers were calculated properly, but not for states and provinces, 
so Writelog doesn't recognize states and provinces as multipliers.

6. After I imported the log from fldigi, Super Check Partial would 
display callsigns that were in the log, but not others.

5. I checked namedmul.ini and there are entries for RTTY Roundup and 
they seem valid.

My setup is as follows:
Windows 7 64-bit
WriteLog 10.74J installed in C:\WriteLog
MMTTY installed in C:\Program Files (x86)\MMTTY
MMTTYPluginForWritelog installed in C:\WriteLog\Programs

Is there some quirk with 64-bit Windows that I have failed to 
comprehend? Where do I go from here?

73, Jim  VA3HJ
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