Fairings

Painted and ready for some sticker treatment later this week! Pictures will follow! Also I will go to Brno 14-16th April for some early practicing. A great track, now with new surface, now I just have to install the used BPS ignition I bought last year...

This time of the year again!

I would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! My Christmas was partly spent witha fake beard to keep the myth alive for my sisters kids, very enjoyable! :)

Race bike design

I've had two complete fairings in the garage for more than a year now. I haven't been able to decide on a nice design for them but this weekend I finally concentrated myself and spent a few hours in front of the computer.
This is what I came up with, what do you think?

Vista revisited

Today I had a private demonstration of Tracktimer for a customer running Vista Home Basic, he was not logged in as Administrator.
I saved a session just to show how it looks in the Sessions view but to my surprise it was empty! This session was saved in the track name subdirectory so I tried to save it directly under Sessions instead and this time it showed up.

Then I tried to run as Administrator and to my surprise no sessions were visible!

After some googling I found out this about virtualization:
c:\Program Files and its subdirectories are write protected for anyone except Administrators.
If you try to write there you will think that you have succeded but in reality it has been written to C:\Users\YourAccountName\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files instead.
However, if you run the program as Administrator it will write to c:\Program Files as in XP and earlier OS's, this explains why I couldnät see the session I saved when I was not running Tracktimer as administrator.

So until I make Tracktimer truly Vista compatible please install Tracktimer to your User directory - normally called "Documents" - instead of to c:\Program Files as it suggests by default during install.

The 100th online customer needs to be celebrated

Yesterday Caroline Landström was lucky enough to be the 100th online customer!
She (or more correctly her father) bought the Basic Motorcycle version but she will now get a Pro Motorcycle version for free! And it's not even Christmas! :)

Thank you for your order and best of luck Caroline!

Tracktimer+Ubuntu+Wine=true!

Some of my racing friends are not exactly overwhelmed by Microsoft operating systems so every now and then I get the question about when Tracktimer will be available for Linux.
"It will never happen" is my usual answer.
But it appears that Tracktimer actually works in Linux with the help of Wine, I got this e-mail yesterday:

Greetings from Malaysia Torkel!

Just writing to let you know that your software seems to work flawlessly in linux (Ubuntu) using the latest version of "WINE".. I've been able to do timing, saving, etc... using the demo version, with ZERO problems.

-Mikko Nassi
www.kartingasia.com

To be more specific he runs Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon)... and WINE
version 0.9.54.

Thanks for the research Mikko!

Tracktimer v3.0.0.65 released

Time for a new version again, this time it is actually more of a bug fix release than a lot of new features...
v3.0.0.64 contained some very stupid changes from me that messed up the file names and the storage directory of the exported files. Check if you have some *.htm files in the Tracktimer directory, if so they are safe to delete. Thanks to Cedric Cornell for telling me about this error!

Bugfixes:

• HTML file for setup created correctly in Exports directory
• Changed to TAdvPicture when exporting tracks (possible to export gif again)
• Doesn't remove backslash from track files during HTML export
• Tire tag html export gets correct filename

New features:

• Copies logotype image to Tracktimer directory
• Added external link to part status items
• Select from list of suppliers when exporting Part status report
• Possible to sort part status report on supplier
• Possible to include price/pcs column in Part status report
• Number columns aligned to the right in Part status report
• Progress window visible when exporting Part status

Update is automatic if you just start the current version of Tracktimer on a computer connected to internet. (Demo versions are not updated automatically, only Basic and Pro)

Now that the release is out I can concentrate on my bike! A new crank has to be put in and two sets of fairings have to be painted, when I have a design I like I will post tome pics here!

Version 3.0.0.64

I thought I had changed all image components but I hadn't... :(
So I had to make a new version that handles gif images for the car in the Weight distribution page for cars and karts.
Update by starting Tracktimer on a computer connected to Internet as usual.

Sorry for this
/Torkel

Tracktimer v3.0.0.63 released!

It's time again, a new release of Tracktimer!
This release contains many small changes that will make life easier for many of you. I would like to thank my "power user" George Vukmanovich for lots and lots of valuable input and discussions, the main reason for most of the changes in this release.

To update you just have to start your registered version of Tracktimer on a computer that is connected to the internet. If you have any problems just contact me.

A brand new feature is that you can now print tire tags directly to label paper.
It is now also possible to insert a row when entering lap times manually, just right-click on the grid.

Read on for the full list of changes:

Version 3.0.0.63

2007-11-21

• Uses TAdvPicture instead of TGifImage
• Print label dialog handles non-metric units
• Filters filenames better for illegal tokens
• Added Spanish, Italian, French and Swedish translations

Version 3.0.0.62

2007-09-30

• Improved inspection export so parts that needs to be replaced are shown even if they don't need to be inspected
• Uses 1 decimal for part status exports instead of "lots"
• Possible to move multiple parts in part status
• Added Suspension link for rear mc suspension
• Added event name to Prepare session dialog
• Tire compound history increased to 10 in tire dialog
• New time format, added popup menu to insert a row, clears old lap times before import
• Made session type an MRUcombobox
• 4 decimals for AD, 2 for RAD
• Part status handles multiselect for both edit, move and delete
• Key F5 resorts active part status grid
• Inspection reports shows items that need to be replaced too even if they don't need to be inspected
• Selected tire remains selected in tire list even after editing/adding of history or other edits
• Three decimals for tire mileage
• New correct formatting of purchase orders (tested on A4 paper)
• Page numbers in purchase order
• Double-clicking a filled lap grid opens the edit dialog
• Changed order of temp, rel humidity and absolute pressure
• Changed "My position" to "Drivers position"
• All jetting comboboxes now have a memory of 10 items
• New time format 1:11.111, also handles 1.11.111 as before
• Right click timing grid when entering lap times to insert a row
• Can print tire tags to label paper
• Added progressbar to splash screen
• Added distance to each driver
• Removed optimal lap time
• Doesn't overwrite new tracktimer.ini after restore
• Correct handling of final page break in purchase order
• Purchase order price has 2 decimals
• Tests if sorting is necessary before sorting
• Added Needle clip pos to session comparision
• Label printing now works as intended
• Tire label dimensions now decimal values
• Saves font name for tire labels

Video logger

The reason I added the possibility to connect an onboard video file for each session is the Bullet DVR. The Bullet DVR is a new robust video logger that also lap times and shows the lap times on screen when you look at the video. Mighty cool if you ask me!
I have been in contact with the constructor of this product to make sure that Tracktimer can both connect a video file to each session and also import the lap times.
Manufacturers site: Bullet DVR