Thread: ECUTalk v1.3 Released (Pocket PC/Laptop Consult Software for pre-OBDII Nissans)

Nice one fella, been waiting for the next edition for ages

@ Newkleer:
You should start a new thread about this with a more apt tittle

PS. there are definate improvements with 1.3 with regards to the ability to change the gauge colours and especially the fuel economy thingy, but the screen fill size is still playing up

I wish I was able to post you a screenie but right at the moment, mid moving house, I haven't got the hardware available to do it.

It definately behaves differently when standalone (in which case it tried to fit all the dials in the PPC sized window, but when embedded in CF it still tries to display dials beyond the available app space. Could you add a user option to set the window size manually? And make sure dials fill all the available space.

And how about sussing out some calcs to also get mpg worked out for us who still believe in Engilsh units
My brain doesn't work in km/h and litres... I need UK gallons and good old miles per hour

Another function which has suddenly struck me as essential is way to decide the order of the dials because for them to be useable when driving you need to be able to look straight at the dial you're interested in rather than having to stare at the LCD looking for what you want to see.

I appreciate your efforts, and would love to help you but my programming skills are lacking to say the least Keep up the good work Mr.

EDIT: Hang on a minute, first time I downloaded the PPC version And I may be confusing some of the problems that the PPC one produced when run on a PC, and the car is in the garage now, 150ft away and its -2C outside So we will have to wait till tomorrow to be sure

I'm now wondering how hard it would be to have this app as a CF Plugin
Things like this, and skinning are taken care of then

right, definate bugs are as follows...

When exiting program, process continues to run (viewed from task manager)
Dials now either occupy a small rectangle in the middle of the window, or they extend off the viewable window.

Would it be possible to make the autoconnect sort of auto sense whether there is a connection to the ECU or not and take the necessary actions on its own. The reason for this is that if I hibernate the pc with ECUTalk on, and then turn car off and lock up... When I come back to the car, and restart the pc Ecutalk is no longer connected hence dials don't work so I have to exit the dials and re enter them.

Not a biggy, but an improvement non the less.

Bigger controls would help too Maybe text buttons instead of check boxes.

When it is embedded there is no tittle bar and hence no red cross so I have to close it using the close external app button within Centra.

There was issues with this method within Centra some time back but these have since been resolved and other programs don't do it anymore

Will try and get some screenies done this week...


Have you had a play with CentraFuse, its still free to download? I can send you my external apps ini and button layout files so you could recreate my setup on your PC, and try it first hand

Sorted!

I'll get the required files off the carpc tonight

In the meantime, you get yourself CF1.0 downloaded from www.fluxmedia.net and have a play

here are some screenies

In car at the moment. keyboard is a real PITA

Will post up coments on each pic later


For now you can see how it behaves