Another quick update, this one makes the graphing work properly again, makes the UI look a bit nicer (missed a library in the last release..) but I also re-implemented the dashboard’s caching engine so processor use should be reduced dramatically. Thanks to Mitch for the quick testing. Please let me know how it works for you!
http://fbodytech.com/files/eehack-beta4.8.1.zip
beta4.8.1
Errored initially as no definition file was found. Selected and starts up ok.
Multiple graph views display data.
1st graph window displayed the posaition indicator. Subsequent windows didn't.
However, when scrolling the main window playback position slider, the graph window position indicator bars appeared & move all together when scrolling the position.
Knock timestamp works.
Playback:
cpu usage 22% on slow. 26% approx when running fast.(same as beta4_8).
Position indicator now counts about twice as quick on fast as opposed to slow.
Excellent!
Mitch
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The 4.8.1 update did indeed fix the graphing error and made it display a little better on my netbook (1366x768). It still prefers if I have "auto-hide taskbar" enabled (otherwise the VIN/CALID sections get squished vertically), but it works well with auto-hide enabled.
Aside from the functional changes I noted in my EEHack Read Fail thread (all good things), I noticed the new version has a couple of minor bugs. Carried over from 4.7, the checkboxes for "unsaved log" and "unsaved notes" under the "warnings on exit" in settings still do not do anything (the program always warns on exit regardless of this setting). I can't tell if "Save Invalid BIN" works because the read process actually fails this time before completing, but I assume it's probably working now. In the graph display, "Transmission Selected Gear" does not appear to be working properly as the graph scale isn't whole numbers, goes off the top edge, and doesn't actually appear to indicate 1st or 2nd gear. Also, it still appears that the indicator for "Transmission Perform Switch Pressed" is reversed, indicating "ON" when not depressed and "OFF" when depressed. Those are all old bugs, though.
The new bugs I noticed, most were fixed with 4.8.1, though clicking "Now" for "new version notification" results in a network error regardless of network status on both 4.8.0 and 4.8.1.
i'll look into that stuff, thanks to both of you for trying again. the checksum bugs were really annoying to fix so i'm glad that worked.
is the selected gear really broken everywhere or just the graphing module?
can someone else confirm the 'transmission perform switch' is backwards? it'd be a simple definition file fix but need to make sure..
Oh, it's only the graph. It works perfectly in the datalog screen. :)
graphing was more for fluid floating point parameters rather than 1-4 integer stuff and you might be the first person to try to graph it (not saying its not useful to have... ) i'll see what I can do about that
the unsaved log and notes settings are fixed thanks for pointing that out. was a fundamental issue that needed fixing anyway, the code was all there, but the 'close window event' wasn't processed properly.
Compiled in QT creator 4.10 built for 64 bit Red Hat (actually running on Ubuntu 18.04) zero errors or warnings.
The dashboard being the main window is a vast improvement!
The main window seems like it's picking up the wrong available desktop dimensions at startup. The auto-size makes the window larger than the available horizontal space roughly by the size of my taskbar (which is immovable and anchored to the left edge in Unity) and the main window title bar. When maximized it's similarly taller than available desktop minus the title bar. The other windows (graph, control) are sized correctly when maximized.
Even with the dynamic scaling the size of the important stuff on the dashboard is hard for this old man to see. This may be a Unity / linux specific thing. Curious to see what it looks like on windows. Maybe add a "blind operator mode" that bolds all the fonts?
It seems like all my keyboard accelerators and other ui changes were culled.
Here are some screenshot with lower display resolution. ON high res displays it is much better sized and readable.
The main buttons does look a bit oversized, compared with dashboard part, maybe a row orientation will save some of the long white spaces on the dashboard fields. I know it is a work in progress and will get better and finer. Sometimes it gets rescaled in fullscreen, and little of the right part moves out of field.
The multiple graph windows can be seen at same time only if the dashboard is minimized. If not minimized you can only bring up only one graph. I now it is been talked about but bringing a small displays in the graph windows to display the current selected value in the graph window will be great. Otherwise it is all guessing or swithcing to main dashboard to see the exact value the cursor is at.
Also the graph window looses the selection when closed. It could be the result of multiple windows. If you accidently close the graph window, the selection of fields must be done again.
One other idea I had that might intrigue you is the lack of relation with the bin version and the log, and date, time stamp of the log.
Now I got this idea to stamp the name of the bin in ascii characters during flashing. Just like patch version is stamped, but it will be the name of the bin. e and t side independant. When the log is started a mode3 retrieval of the name of the bin from e and t side, and date, time can be added in the log, displaying the name of the bin the log is taken with. It is important that we don`t lose version compatabily with previous version, so you must be creative.
That way you never lose track at which bin version you got the right setting dialed.
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