Thread: Vehicle Maintenence Plugin

yea i'm not sure whats goin on there i simply copied the carwings osk.skin into your skin then added the label and enter button.

The fuel data entry is now just 2 steps . Dont ask me why the old version had me requesting the odometer reading when i already have the total distance label

the last thing i need to do is figure out the total cost average calculation error john mentioned. that might take some time tho cause i suck at math!

Originally Posted by Sonicxtacy02

The fuel data entry is now just 2 steps . Dont ask me why the old version had me requesting the odometer reading when i already have the total distance label

Sounds good... If I may make a suggestion though... hahahah!

I would leave the odometer entry in there, and propagate it from the value in the plugin so it shows when the OSK is loaded for entry. If it is correct, just press enter to accept it. More than likely it is going to be off just a bit from GPS skipping out, not starting soon as you start to drive ect. This way the Odometer would be updated and calibrated at each fill up. Which basically does the proverbial killing two birds with one stone thing

I am not sure why actually you are using a separate keyboard, as I use the OSKTOVAR command to get information using the standard RR OSK.

Here is an example from my YouTube skin, that uses the OSK to get the path where you want the video saved, then saves it to the skin.ini and changes the variable in memory:

PHP Code:

"YT_SETPATH"," ||OSKTOCMD;YTPATH;YT_SAVETOSKIN"
"YT_SAVETOSKIN","SAVETOSKIN;ytsavein;$YTPATH$||SETVAR;ytsavein;$YTPATH$" 


You can not concat the command with the ||, thus the 2nd line is needed to actually run all the commands

John seems to like to

mmmmm strange open the osk skin file up and change these 2 lines it will change the font to yellow like the rest of the skin

T01,15,109,771,40,255,255,0,40,0,0,22,"Arial Narrow","Country"

L,17,86,750,22,255,255,0,18,"Arial","RRVM_OSKTITLE ","LEFT"

lol john your KILLING me here. You wanted the fuel entry as streamlined as possible but you want me to add back an entry that was redundant lol. If you really wanted to add a check before fuel entry you could set a var when RRVM_EDITTOTALDISTANCE is launched then check that var when adding fuel... Then just run a byvar either instructing someone to update the odometer or continue to add fuel.

Now the osk thing comes back to the point that i'm using the data as soon as its entered.. and it doesnt make sense to have my plugin wait for the data to be sent through RR queue before i have access to it. If the data entered is in an invalid format my plugin clears the text area and makes the OSKTITLE label blink to indicate the value must be entered again. Its only going to slow the process down if the data ONLY the plugin uses has to wait for RR to feed the plugin the data. C'mon man you have a million .skin files in that masterpiece of yours whats one more osk gonna hurt

Originally Posted by carputer1

mmmmm strange open the osk skin file up and change these 2 lines it will change the font to yellow like the rest of the skin

T01,15,109,771,40,255,255,0,40,0,0,22,"Arial Narrow","Country"

L,17,86,750,22,255,255,0,18,"Arial","RRVM_OSKTITLE ","LEFT"

got it.. thanks

woo hoo figured out the total cost per mile bug. I wasn't resetting the holding variable so the calculation was basically doubling every time it was made. I've also given some thought to what john mentioned about adding back odometer to the fuel data entry... it does make sense in the long run. If nothing else comes up before tomorrow we just might have ourselves a beta release

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It may be me, but the link isn't working. I end up with a 38k .rar file, that won't open. I'm using Avast antivirus, so i tried disabling that, but it still does the same thing.