scannerpro feature request

[Sil]

ahh so im thinking to blend (in the dash board) all of the gauges instead of having them butt up against eachother, have the background set to white ? this way i can make some very unique dashboards *drools*
oh and maybe get rid of the black border around the digital and flag gauges too, thad be slick.
im havin lots of fun laying out my different dash's

[JP86SS]

Is there a display like the bar graphs on Rbobs hud that could be implemented as another gauge type?
Saw them and wondered.

[ashman]

another SIMPLE request...

can you change the main dashboard color from white/black letters to black/white letters? not a big problem but it REALLY lights up the inside of the car at night

[Sil]

[JP86SS]

Is it possible to put a second needle on the analog gauges?
Would use the scale of the primary but allow a second mapped signal to display within the same gauge. Would save some screen space.
Was thinking about items like:
Commanded AFR / WB
BLM Main/Integrator,
Startup Coolant/Coolant,
Commanded Idle speed/RPM,
Battery Volts/Fuel Pump Volts,
A few off the top of my head.

If not, that's ok.
Was a wild theory to be able to make bigger gauges do more.
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[Mangus]

[JP86SS]

[Mangus]

Adding a second needle would be easy enough, but I'm still not sure of its usability. As you mention, all needles would have to live within the same gauge scale.
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[JP86SS]

Got a couple ideas as I play with SP more,
1.) Small digital indicators below the scales of the grapgh monitors to indicate the actual current value. Hard to distinguish values, can only see trends currently.
2.) Ability to "step" through log playback one frame at a time. ("]" only jump during playback) difficult to do record by record and write down details. Maybe that was the "custom" speed that isn't in yet.
3.) Settable scale factor for the gauge divisions. Seem like they are multiples of 10 only. Major divisions/Minor division setting could make gauges configurable such as to display a 128 value as "Straight up" needle with whole number divisions on the dial.

Having allot of fun with it, I love being able to see bit status while viewing gauges. Just makes eveything come together better.
Thanks Mark.
Jp

[Mangus]

[daveinet]

It would be nice if when the program booted, it would boot to the last tab displayed when shut down. When driving, minimizing the number of keystrokes to get to the correct page when driving is important. I have a hot key that boots the program directly, for me, I would always have it come up in dash mode.

It would also be nice if multiple tabs could be open at once. For instance, I would display the Dash and BLM table at the same time. TTS sort of does this, although they don't specifically have a dash.
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[daveinet]

an additional comment on program booting to most recent tab, maybe a better thought would be a command line like ScannerPro.exe/C/D for auto Connect on start up and open Dash tab.


The comment about having a gauge within a gauge is interesting. I actually have overlapped the gauges just to see what happens. Seems there is a screen redraw that makes the second gauge go away momentarily in the redraw sequence. Where I would use it would be dropping the MAP sensor over the top of the pulse width. I would in this case place two rings one within the other so I would only see a small marker moving on the outer ring. Of course bar graph gauges would obsolete that concept.
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"There are 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't"

[Mangus]

With the work I'm putting into integrating the scannerpro features into tunerpro, i have a lot planned for dashboards.

Tunerpro will have the "boot to last tab shown" just like it always has.

overlapped guages may be supported.

connect on startup isn't a bad idea, but it wouldn't be a command line switch like you suggest, it would simply be a preference.
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[Mangus]

[daveinet]

Is there any way to translate an XDL file to comma delimited? I have some old files I'm trying to play back, but regardless of what definition I use it just crashes. Need to be able to compare old data to the new data.
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"There are 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't"

[JP86SS]

That is one problem that does make things difficult.
If you make a change to the definition and save it, any old logs will not playback. Seems like it will be a difficult task (or possibly not because of "hash IDs" could be used to replay matching items only)
Things from previous definitions that no longer exist or are newly created since the log was generated would just not be in the display lookup routine.
Not sure how all that works in the background.
Is there any thoughts on how to handle this in the future?
Thanks again Magnus for all the work you've put into this over the years.
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[Mangus]

[daveinet]

The problem was with log files created with the previous build being compatible with the most recent build. I've gone back to an old version (I keep one on hand that runs in my WIN98 box) and have been able to run the old logs.
The export feature would still be beneficial, so one can inspect details. Its a little difficult to read points on a EKG graph to read exact points where stuff happens. This came up as a result comparing MAP readings at higher RPMs - noting where I am seeing some flow problems and how much loss I'm really seeing.
I suppose one could suggest that the great features of this program has caused me to be too anal about this thing.
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"There are 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't"

[Mangus]

Export will definitily be there, but just isn't yet. It won't help you with your old files, though, only files created with whatever build I ship it in.
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[Mangus]

As a show of good faith that this is on my list and that I'm addressing this, here's a screenshot of the export functionality that will be part of the scannerpro engine (in this case, that will ship in TunerPro v5):


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[JP86SS]

Only because there isn't one that drools!

[Six_Shooter]

Cool, so we can choose as many or as few items as we want and by the looks of it into different files?

Will there be an easy "select all" button?

Looking good!

I was thinking about this earlier.....

Will Scanner Pro still be available as a seperate entity after TP RT v5 comes out? I'm looking forward to the integration, for sure, but I think there could be desire to have them seperate too. Maybe not. Aout the only time I actually use Scanner Pro now is on the test bench, in the car I get so much feed back from the tracing that I prefer TP RT simply for that function.

Cant wait for TP RT v5 just to have the full customizable dash AND data tracing.

[Mangus]

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[daveinet]

Yes, and while we are on log playback, for some reason when ever I play back a log, it plays two replys and then stops. If you pause and restart it, it takes off and runs, but skips the first minute or so of data. Both my XP and my Vista have this problem even on different files recorded on each individual laptop.
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"There are 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't"

[Mangus]

Have you downloaded lately? A similar problem was fixed months ago. Let me know if you see it with a re-download (and a NEW log).
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[Lafuente]

Hi Mark,

I notice that I can't use characters with accents in Scanner Pro definition file. Can you have a look on it please ?

Very good idea to integrate Scanner Pro in tuner Pro !!

What about logging 2 data streams in Scanner Pro ?

Bests,
Manu

P.S. : Sorry for my poor english

[Mangus]

I will look into it, Manu. I got your email.
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[daveinet]

[Mangus]

[daveinet]

Oops, I need to correct my statement. It does not get the errors every so often in the command /reply, but I do get the error log file problem where it does not want to play the log file with out stopping after the first 2 seconds and then having to restart again. When I first installed this on the Perspire One, the first log I made played back fine, and still plays back fine, but subsequent logs I've created have the old problem again.
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"There are 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't"

[Lafuente]

Hi Mark,

Also, as I propose to you before, if we can translate TunerPro v5 in French
If you need help, ask me

Bests,
Manu