Thread: Milage plugin - trip meter and fuel consumption

Same here

over 50 miles today and A ok

hi!

This plug-in seems like a nice idea, and it would be real nice since I drive a lot for my work...

since I'm a beginner at plug-ins and RR I would love some help with this...
I'm running the Freedoom skin (u have to love it) so I'm building my question with that in mind...

Q1. The files from the .rar file, should I put them directly in the RR folder or in the Freedoom skin folder?
A1. In the freedrive folder!

Q2. the line X,Milage should be in my menu.skin for Freedoom I guess!
A2. Yup, don't know what it does though...!

Q3. And now then... how can I get to the plug-in and so on, did that but nothing happened so there must be some vital part that I missed...
A3. U replace some of the buttons in the freedoom skin with links to the new .skin files.

So... a lot of trial and error I answered my own questions... I can now load the different skin files from my buttons in the RR skin. 1 button to milage.skin and another to tripmeter.skin.
I guess that the milage is to enter the amount I filled the tank with and that one loads ok...
The tripmeter one on the other hand makes my RR crash, none of the buttons are working and I need to ctrl+alt+del to shut it down... thank god I tried it on my laptop first, hard doing that on a TS...

So, some questions gone and some new instead, thanks for any help on this!

Originally Posted by festy

A2.1 - The X,Milage line in menu.skin loads the milage.dll plugin, that's how all RR Extension plugins are loaded. Make sure you only have that line in menu.skin, it causes lots of problems if you load the same plugin multiple times

You're right in that the milage.skin is just for punching in your fuel when you fill up. My tripmeter.skin had a button to 'log fuel', which called the milage.skin, but there's nothing stopping you from calling it from another skin.

As far as crashing RR, I'm not sure - obviously it doesn't do that on mine
You can try turning on debugging in rr.ini, and you might get a hint as to what's happening by looking at your debug.txt after it locks up. There's not a lot of information logged about plugins, but seeing what requests RR is receiving at the time of the lockup might help.
Did you register the plugin on your system with "regsvr32 milage.dll" from your skin directory? Not registering it would cause the tripmeter skin to not display much, but shouldn't cause lockups or anything. Do you het any error messageboxes pop up at that point?

I have it in the skins menu.skin file right at the bottom so it should be loaded...

I couldnt do the register part from the run command so I made it the other way by opening the dll file with the regsvr32 applikation and it says it's registered so it should work...

I dont get a single error message, RR just freezes and I have to shut it down... here's the part from the debug.txt file:

Code:

2006-09-16 17:05:10: Que Exec: True, menu.skin, "LOAD;tripmeter.skin", False
2006-09-16 17:05:10: Executing: LOAD;tripmeter.skin
2006-09-16 17:05:11: Leave Exec: False, menu.skin, LOAD;tripmeter.skin, False
2006-09-16 17:05:11: SDK command: REQUEST;milage;RRPATH

and after this it's dead... the only part that I dont recognize is the SDK command thing... thats the only thing thats no where else in the file...

Any ideas what might be causing it?
oh, and thanks for the help btw!

[Added info below]
ok... I thought I might try and enter some numbers in the milage screen since I can load that one... but as soon as I pressed 1 RR died again....
Debug still on so here's the last part this time...

Code:

2006-09-16 17:13:44: Que Exec: True, menu.skin, "LOAD;milage.skin", False
2006-09-16 17:13:44: Executing: LOAD;milage.skin
2006-09-16 17:13:44: Leave Exec: False, menu.skin, LOAD;milage.skin, False
2006-09-16 17:13:46: Enter Exec: False, milage.skin, "MILAGE_1", False
2006-09-16 17:13:46: Que Exec: True, milage.skin, "MILAGE_1", False
2006-09-16 17:13:46: SDK command: REQUEST;milage;RRPATH