Peal Prover
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Peal Prover is available as a free download. If you like the program just tell everyone about it !!! :o)
If you need any assistance with using Peal Prover, or have any suggestions for ways of improving it, then email Dave Ware.
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[edit] Features
The program allows you to carry out the following main actions:
- Use place notations to define a method.
- Print out the changes and blue line for a method.
- Define a calling composition.
- Print out the changes or lead ends for a composition.
- Check if a composition is true or false.
- Search for musical changes in a composition.
- Check the leads rung in each method by each bell in a spliced composition.
[edit] Recent Enhancements
[edit] version 5.3 - 2010
Added feature to allow the details of an update to be displayed before downloading and installing it. Made the "Scan Changes" feature case insensitive (so the pattern '*e9780t' matches any change ending with 'E9780T'). Made the "Scan Changes" dialog resizeable. Added an option to the "Scan Changes" dialog to only count each change once if it matches multiple scan patterns. Peal Prover now automatically backs up the current methods and compositions databases before downloading a new version of the application.
[edit] Version 5.2 - 2009
Added wildcard search patterns to the "Scan Changes" feature. Added feature to download new methods libraries as well as new versions of the Peal Prover application. Added winhlp32 to the installer so that Windows Vista users can access the Peal Prover help pages.
[edit] Version 5.1 - 2007
Added new features to analyse the leads rung by each bell in a spliced composition. Allow touches to start from a change other than rounds (e.g short touches of Grandsire Caters that bring up pretty music but start with 2 bells swapped over to reduce the length of the touch). Made the Compositions Message Log dialog resizable, so it's now easier to read. Added an automatic updates wizard to allow Peal Prover to detect and download its own new versions when they become available in future. Fixed the bug where Peal Prover would crash if run on a PC with no printer drivers installed.
[edit] Version 5.0 - 2004
Modified to allow methods on 16 bells. Added the ability to mark course ends in a composition file - these lead ends are then automatically underlined by Peal Prover when the composition lead ends are generated. Added a "Copy to Clipboard" facility, so that the generated changes can be copied onto the clipboard as a picture, and then pasted into another application (e.g. Word).
[edit] Version 4.4 - 2003
Modified the way calls are defined for principle type methods so that Peal Prover can cope with methods such as 'Union Bob'. Added a method and composition rename facility. Added a startup wizard to assist people who are using the program for the first time.
