Merry Christmas!

Ho ho ho!

It's this time of the year again, my own private Swedish Rally starts!

Tomorrow at the break of dawn the first stint goes to Stockholm. I have arranged so the E4 will be free from all other traffic so I can cut the corners as I wish and try to better my personal record. The winner (me of course) will receive something we in Sweden call "julskinka", "glögg" and "sill". After a few days that mainly consists of moving large amounts of white cold stuff from one place to another I will let my back rest for a few days.

Instead I will act as co-driver (mostly watching videos and eating junk food) on the newly developed all-carbon Y-buss - all the way to the arctic test tracks in Härnösand. There I will most probably dive deep into even more "julskinka", "glögg" and "sill".

Then on Thursday I do it all again but backwards.

This is what we in Sweden call vacation. If it wasn't for "julskinka", "glögg" and "sill" I would call it something else...

I wish all of you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Happy racing (as always!)

/Torkel

New Track Packs added

A total of 10 tracks in South Africa and 16 tracks in Great Britain, Ireland and Wales can now be imported into Tracktimer. My regards to Andy Jamison who sent me this data.
The track packs are found in the Download section. Just download, extract the files and follow the instructions in the readme.txt file to import them.

Possible to download backup data for demo

I finally did something I have thought about doing for - let me see now... - some years! For those of you that have downloaded the demo and haven't bought a license there isn't really much to see and play with. But if you download the newly added backup (actually part of my personal data from 2004-2005) you can play around with the program a lot more, you cannot save anything though.

All data are in Swedish unfortunately, hopefully it will be usable anyway. It is also based on the motorcycle version which means that you have to choose motorcycle as vehicle to be able to open the sessions and the tire list.
If you are a registered user there is of course no need to download this. If you do anyway remember to take a backup of your own data first.

The backup file can be found in the download section, together with instructions on how to use it, enjoy!

The next step for Tracktimer "developmentwise" is to port it to Delphi 2005 from Delphi 6, I am almost there but not quite yet.

Translators needed!

Right now Tracktimer is available in several languages but the only translation that is 100% ready is the Swedish one...

Italian: 800 strings remain
Spanish: 1400 strings remain
German: 420 strings remain
French: 1135 strings remain
Norwegian: 535 strings remain
Finnish: 1400 strings remain
Danish: 1400 strings remain

I need help with this, ordinary translators won't do since it is a lot of motorsport terminology. I think that the best is if it is translated by someone involved in racing. Contact me for more information if you are interested or if you know someone that is.

End of season here in Sweden

The last race of the year was run yesterday in 8 degrees Celcius! I am very happy with my riding, I got third place with a standard Aprilia RS250 among many 250cc and 125cc racers.
I might as well use this opportunity to show how a season export looks.
First show all sessions, sort them on date, select the qualify, warmup and race sessions using Ctrl-Click and the click the button Export sessions. In that dialog select to group by name of event and then you will get something like this: Season 2005 (In swedish this time!)

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