Ups and downs

Racing is really up and down, during the race at Gelleråsen last Saturday I took my first pole position (thank you!), did a really lousy start and did my first highside on the fifth lap from 5th place!
Now I just have to start practising my starting technique because it is really really bad...
Photographer: Berra Swenson

V3.0 is out!

Now I am finally done with v3.0! It took me more than two years since the last version was released to the public but now I feel that it is as ready as it ever will be.

I'm happy to introduce the Basic versions, they are less feature rich version of the Pro versions. You will not get any Maintenance functionality for instance and can only time one driver at a time. But they cost a fifth of the Pro versions. And if you decide to upgrade to a Pro version you will get the same amount back in rebate.

I have also included a number of flash tutorials at the Download page. In short: they rock! :)

So even though I didn't manage to release this early this spring as I had planned I hope you will like it in it's current form.

Enough of this, have a look for yourselves: http://www.tracktimer.com

It's looking promising!

I will try to go public with the new release this week including the new basic versions. What remains is to activate the new basic products at share-it and to add some new screen shots.
I have done four new tutorials and have about five more to do until I am satisfied. The tutorials are far better than any help file in the world to help newcomers understand how to work with the program.
Take a sneak peak at the ones I have made so far here.

v3.0.0.50 was necessary...

Ouch, maybe I shouldn't have made the power chart a window of its own, lots of problems has been detected due to this. In order to make that work I had to change the Dynobox window from a member variable to a common "auto created" window. Since this window now is created after the main form some functions did not work so well anymore...

First in v3.0.0.48 when the automatic opening of last session was attempted before the dyno box window existed and now in v3.0.0.49 when we try to convert from v2.0.x version before the dyno box dialog existed.
I moved all that code to after all windows have been created so now it works!

Since I raced this weekend myself (5th place and new personal lap record, wheee!) I found that long tire ID's could not be read when updating tire sets from a session so I fixed that one too.
Now I really hope I will not find anymore errors!

v3.0.0.49 - it's better!

Ok, isn't it typical that when you think you are ready you are not?
The change to show the powergraph mapped on each gear in its own window apparently made it impossible to automatically load last session during startup. Thanks to Andy and Cedric for pointing that out to me.

What's new:

* Moved all commandline handling after all forms have been created
* Handles range of selections when making purchase order from partstatus
* Correct calculation of extra rows for ordergrid
* Added properties for sessionfile and load at startup
* Shows powergraph by default
* Moved repaint to after graphs have been added

v3.0.0.48

A new beta (the last hopefully) released today at the usual place!

What's new:
* Uses a dialog to show powerchart on gearing page
* Final gear column wider
* Added tire history splitter
* Better export of tracks
* 3D-look to all tables
* When importing laptimes the date and time is set to the current date and time
* Added minutes when updating part status
* Possible to delete more than one part that is not in consecutive order
* Corrected confirmation message when a setup is opened from a session
* If we have zero items left of a part in the stock grid all specific data is cleared
* Remembers tire nodes better
* A part has to have a qty > 0 to be marked for inspection
* MergePartStatusRows handles various versions of zero better (0, 0.0, 0.000, '')
* When merging two parts the oldest date is used
* New program icon

I cannot think of any additions I would like to do in this version so if I don't get any error reports (or find any errors myself...) this will be the final v3.0 release.

Version 3.0.0.47 is now available

The date format bug mentioned in my previous post has been eliminated! Customers can get the new release at the usual place.
Thanks to Gary and Cedric for pointing this out to me.

Information about the "date format bug"

I got bug reports from two different users about problems to open part status items because the dates were invalid.
To make sorting easier Tracktimer uses the format yyyy-mm-dd for all dates in its tables. What happens is that when Windows XP returns from the screen saver it overwrites Tracktimers date format with the regional format which might be dd/mm/yyyy!
And now the string representation of a date cannot be transformed to "date" representation since the formats doesn't match anymore!

The quick fix if anyone has problems with this is to disable the screen saver until the next version is released. I am planning on showing all dates the way they are meant to be shown to make it even better.
Sorry for any problems this might have caused you.

v3.0.0.46 is ready

Now it is possible to generate a purchase order from selected part status items. Order status rows are also colored depending on delivery status.
Beta testers and customers know where to download it, please do!

Update 13th April:
I found two bugs that made the merging and comparision fail when updating part status. So there is now a new v3.0.0.46 available (no need to waste precious version numbers...;))

v3.0.0.45 released

A number of improvements in this release:

* Added Storage Location to each Part Status item
* Added Price/pcs to each part Status item
* Removed purchase order stuff from Export Part Status dialog
* Added new Export Purchase Order buttons and dialog
* Added AllReceivedCheckBox to Update Order dialog
* Calls UpdatePartStatus and UpdateMaintenanceLog when clicking OK in Update Order dialog
* Handles update of multiple order items
* Added General Notes to main pagecontrol
* Separated ExportPurchaseOrder from Export Part Status
* Updates Gearing page if Engine data has been reloaded
* Uses last selected node for tire list view
* Cosmetic changes for Part Status page
* Added Purchase Order button to Part Status and Order Status
* Can import lap times from AIM Light Analyzer software

Only available for current customers and beta testers right now but I am slowly moving towards the final v3.0... :)