Lap-Time - Progress Update


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2009-07-14 - 'Progress Update' by diablo
It's been a long time since I've made any progress with Lap-time so I thought I'd post up a quick explanation. I haven't heard any complaints about 1.3 so I haven't made any fixes to it. That is straightforward enough. So instead I have been developing the multiplayer component. This hasn't been as good as I had hoped. basically, the lag in everyday wireless internet is too big to make multiplayer useful. At the very best you can get an update in about 1.5seconds. It doesn't sound like much but on average it can take as much as 5-10 seconds which I'm not happy with. Apart from that, I've had a lot of other things to keep me busy so my attention fell away from Lap-time. I'm going to re-focus now, back on the single player side of the plugin and flesh out the features a bit more. The One Mile test will be replaced with One Kilometer. Although a few people have asked for custom tests instead, so I may end up going that route. Another feature I'd like to play with is approximate power output. It will be VERY approximate as there are lots of variables you would have to know to get an accurate value, but I'm still willing to try it. If anyone has any suggestions for what they want to see added/fixed in the next release, post them here or go to the Contact Us page. Cheers, Scott

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diablo 2009-07-15 16:10:18	Apologies to anyone trying to log in over the last day. I broke the script which validates your details. It should be working again now.
diablo 2009-08-16 21:05:27	Another note for anyone checking, image uploading has been broken but is now fixed.
canman 2009-11-14 22:48:38	Hi mate, I love what you've done with the plugin, just logged into my profile and deleted a few tracks I didn't need and got this error when I clicked delete Warning: include(../score.inc.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/.mesopotamia/scottvandonkelaa/lap-time.net/myprofile/track.inc.php on line 28 Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening '../score.inc.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/local/php5/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/.mesopotamia/scottvandonkelaa/lap-time.net/myprofile/track.inc.php on line 28 Fatal error: Call to undefined function applyaction() in /home/.mesopotamia/scottvandonkelaa/lap-time.net/myprofile/track.inc.php on line 30 It seemed to have deleted the tracks OK when I clicked Back though, but thought you might want to know. Please let me know when you've got a CF3 version done, I've been chomping at the bit to use Laptimer again for ages ! I think the split time active update thing I posted where it changes the colour of the sector as you go would be an awesome update. Also just getting the start line stuff sorted so you can just click Start and have it automatically start when you cross the start line as when you're doing trackdays you can't really stop on the start line each time you want to do your lap timing.