How To Use the Program.
The Tutor Screen Features
The tutor uses the clock face to assist you in learning the work in the method. Here the clock face is shown with the hand in 3-4 Up. The right hand panel shows the method - Plain Bob Doubles. Under that the Touch selector - A Plain Course. The lower large box contains a statement of your current place and your next work.
The File menu, Opens a tutorial document. There are nine methods - Plain Bob in Minimus, Doubles, Minor, Triples and Major, Grandsire in Doubles and Triples, plus St.Martins and St.Simons Doubles.
The View menu, allows the prompting level and blue line to be configured at any time. As you progress the Blue line preview can be turned off. The the Blue line history can be turned off too. If you lose your way, click the hidden line to reveal it for this one change. The prompting level can be altered to suit your improving skills.
How to Practice Counting Places
Use the Menu option: File / Open Select the method from those available in the list and click Open. The tutorial will load. Under the method name is a drop down box containing the words Plain Course this also contains a list of touches that may be selected. Any selection must be made before proceeding. Leave the selection as a plain course. Select which level of textual and Blue line prompting you want from the Menu option: View
Click the Pick Bell button. The numbers buttons are now available. Click the bell you want to learn. If you have chosen a working bell, the hand on the clock is positioned at your start point. There will be no hand for hunting or cover bells. The Blue line now appears unless it has been hidden.
Click the Go button. Enter the place you make at your first handstroke. If correctly entered, the clock hand steps on and the Blue line moves up. If you make a mistake the program beeps to warn you and doesn't move the hand. You may review a section of the work by rewinding and going forward again. To start again, click Reset.
Help is always at hand
Keep your eye on the large message box as tells you which button to press if you forget. Once the method is started it now displays the prompt text unless you have hidden it with the View menu.
All this information is repeated in the help file provided with the program. When using my software click the Help button or press F1 on the keyboard to see the help screens.
Using and Uninstalling the program.
Once installed, the program appears on Window's Start Button Menu, under Programs / Bell Ringing. Should you tire of it, use Control Panel 'Programs and Features' formerly known as 'Add or Remove Programs' to uninstall and remove all trace of the program from you hard disk.
