Drumroll.... Time for a new release!

Dear all!
After too many years there is finally a new release of Tracktimer available - v4.1.1.8!
Get it by starting your current install and you will get a prompt to download it.
It has gotten a major overhaul translationwise and should now be more or less 100% translated to German, French, Italian, Norweigan, Swedish and Spanish!
Also 7-speed gearboxes are handled, possible to enter gear ratios instead of number of teeth, import from Starlane Digirace lap timers and some bug fixes too.

Introducing a new Android Wear Watch Face - Agenda12h

Hi!

This is not Tracktimer related but nevertheless interesting!
Lately I have been experimenting with java and Android Wear to make a watch face that works for me. So if you are interested in having full overview of your coming calendar events mapped on an analog watch face this is for you.

Also if you are interested in photography and are familiar with the concept of blue hour and golden hour you will really appreciate this watch face since it shows when those events occur as well as sunrise and sunset.

For more information, a presentation video and a download link to Google Play please take a look here: http://www.agenda12h.com

And we're back!

2015 soon to be 2016:

A web site today has to be adapted to all kinds of devices, the old design was not prepared for the "digital revolution" that we are in the middle of (or beginning of maybe?) right now.

Because of this I'm very proud to present the new site using responsive design so it looks good on your phone, tablet and on your big hi-res monitor!

Check out http://www.tracktimer.com and if you still see the old site please just refresh your browser.

I am even prouder to release version 4 of Tracktimer that has been developed on Windows 10 for all Windows versions from Windows NT4!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all of you!

Timing competitors

During pre-season training many choose to drive without transponder in order to keep their lap times somewhat secret.
With Tracktimer you can very easily lap times of up to three competitors using keys F6, F7 and F8 each time they pass where you are standing. F5 is used for "your" driver.

In the Pit crew panel you can see time differencies between all drivers. Enter the end time of the session and you will see how many minutes you have left. Also if you have entered amount of fuel you will see how many more laps your driver can pull off.

It looks like this:

Smart backup storage

Tracktimer asks you to take backups after a user configurable number of days. To be really safe make sure you save the backups to your dropbox folder. They will then automatically be safe and always reachable from any computer you have.
Get dropbox here (an extra 250 MB for both you and me if you follow this link)

Stickers done!

And lots of them too! Me and Håkan from www.zid.se worked last night from 17:00 to 03:00 with designing, cutting and preparing the stickers. Some of them are already attached as the one here. Now stop drooling! :)

Hardwarewise I am trying to communicate with my BPS Special ignition but the USB to serial adapter didn't work at all. Håkan was kind and let me borrow his old laptop with a dedicated serial port so hopefully it will do the trick.

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

Ambulanceless :(

My trusty bike transporter / mobile home has now found a new home! The new owner just got his roadracing license so the cool Merc will continue it's life among the Swedish race tracks which is good!

A little crazy but...

I just sent in the application to race in the European Championship at Karlskoga the end of this month! I don't have any expectations on this, if I qualify within 110% I am quite happy!
Now it's time to try the Seel kit for the first time...
As I say in Swedish: "Darra fjunisar!" (Tremble almost-hairless-youngsters!) ;)

Tracktimer version 3.0.0.61

Hi!

Time for a quick update, I have fixed a few errors since the last release:

- Reads new format from Bullet DVR exported lap times
- Not necessary to be administrator to run in Windows Vista anymore
- Correct unit (kg/m3 instead of %) when exporting AD to HTML

To update just start your current version of Tracktimer and make sure
that your computer is connected to Internet.

If you use the demo version you have to re-register at http://www.tracktimer.com to download the latest version.

Have a nice summer!

/Torkel

HTML reports

I have understood that not many know about the reporting capabilities of Tracktimer, even with the basic version you can get a good overview of your sessions.

(Note that these are in Swedish)
A list of my sessions this year sorted on date and grouped by arrangement looks like this.
A more compact view is the statistics view this time without lap times, it looks like this.
My track database is here.
The tires on the 125 seems to last forever, and I mean forever!!! (this requires the Pro version)