Vehicle Maintenence Plugin - Page 3

Blue ZX3 · 06-26-2009, 04:54 PM

Gee...That list looks sooo nice and lined up...

Looks a little familar..

Sonicxtacy02 · 06-26-2009, 08:26 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by Blue ZX3

Gee...That list looks sooo nice and lined up...

Looks a little familar..

thats actually just ...

VAR1 [3SPACES] VAR2 [3SPACES] VAR3 [3SPACES] etc....

works well for now.. but i'll be using (and giving credit to) turorial soon enough

Blue ZX3 · 06-26-2009, 09:04 PM

I know ya will...as in past, when I've helped where I could you've not kept all the credit to yourself...

rodweb · 06-28-2009, 08:16 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by Sonicxtacy02

the initial version will only have gallons/miles.. just to insure it works. Once all the bugs are kicked it'll be possible to switch to liter/km, and liter/miles

When you get to doing stuff in metric, you also need to support litres per 100 km which is the standard metric fuel measurement measure (at least in this country).

Another feature idea. I've done up an unskinned fuel logger (see my worklog) and included a date filter. The idea being that today you are on vacation and off on a driving holiday. So you set the filter to day's date and it only shows the entries that are added so the file from that point on so the averages are for the trip, not for the full log.

I also have a Servo field that I can pop open and select from a list of service stations or type in free text into the field. I have got an on screen numeric data entry window for touch screen entry of numbers, but for text in this field, I just rely on the mini keyboard in the centre console.

I have a diesel engine and I have heard of major repair bills emmanating from dirty fuel so I wanted to log where I filled up so I could sue somebody.

Sonicxtacy02 · 06-29-2009, 09:06 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by rodweb

When you get to doing stuff in metric, you also need to support litres per 100 km which is the standard metric fuel measurement measure (at least in this country).

Another feature idea. I've done up an unskinned fuel logger (see my worklog) and included a date filter. The idea being that today you are on vacation and off on a driving holiday. So you set the filter to day's date and it only shows the entries that are added so the file from that point on so the averages are for the trip, not for the full log.

I also have a Servo field that I can pop open and select from a list of service stations or type in free text into the field. I have got an on screen numeric data entry window for touch screen entry of numbers, but for text in this field, I just rely on the mini keyboard in the centre console.

I have a diesel engine and I have heard of major repair bills emmanating from dirty fuel so I wanted to log where I filled up so I could sue somebody.

The only problem with this is there's no clean way within road runner to enter a date. In fact the way my plugin is currently set the date is automatically added when adding gas (add's today's date). The only way i can think of to add a date is 3 NUMOSK's for day/month/year, or 1 NUMOSK to enter all the data... then have to worry about parsing for each element and making sure its in the proper format. Just doesnt seem worth it.

rodweb · 06-29-2009, 05:10 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by Sonicxtacy02

The only problem with this is there's no clean way within road runner to enter a date. In fact the way my plugin is currently set the date is automatically added when adding gas (add's today's date). The only way i can think of to add a date is 3 NUMOSK's for day/month/year, or 1 NUMOSK to enter all the data... then have to worry about parsing for each element and making sure its in the proper format. Just doesnt seem worth it.

Agreed, I default the date and you must click on an unlock button to be able to edit it (so you can enter stuff from an old log book). One of the reasons I did not bother skinning it was because the date entry and filtering a record set is so trivial in the language I used. Changing the date range is not something you do every day. I would just use a single number and parse it afterwards into D M & Y and let the user worry about correct format.

You would also have to support DDMMYY (which we use) and MMDDYY formats in your INI file.

Blue ZX3 · 06-29-2009, 06:13 PM

I might have another small addition that might help...just something tbat i through together at lunch today..

Sonicxtacy02 · 06-29-2009, 09:04 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by Blue ZX3

I might have another small addition that might help...just something tbat i through together at lunch today..

RRsched based solution?

Sonicxtacy02 · 07-01-2009, 02:45 PM

One more pic before the beta goes out. This one shows the maintenance slider in action.

Disregard the duplicate entries shown for Oil Change.. its the last bug i fixed (switching skins would cause the first item to duplicate)
I've got cost per mile for individual maintenance items AND total cost per mile. Should total cost per mile include cost per mile from fuel calculations? After that its release time

carputer1 · 07-01-2009, 02:48 PM

This is really looking outstanding sonic

Sonicxtacy02 · 07-01-2009, 03:07 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by carputer1

This is really looking outstanding sonic

Lets just hope it works as well for you guys as its been for me the last couple weeks

. The mileage counter has stayed accurate. And all the counters are doing their job. I'm actually surprised at how far its come lol

spamminator · 07-01-2009, 04:25 PM

I'm salivating over here.

As for including the gas cost in $/mile -- why not have two labels, one with, one without?

Edit:

OOH! One more thing. Not sure if you have this already, but would it be possible to have an indicator that fires whenever you get within a certain range on ANY of the maintenance items. It could be configurable, so say you have it turn on if you're 50 miles or less away from needing any kind of service (based on your list items). I'm thinking of this as something to stick on the menu skin to tell you to check something on the maintenace skin...

Sonicxtacy02 · 07-01-2009, 04:37 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by spamminator

I'm salivating over here.

As for including the gas cost in $/mile -- why not have two labels, one with, one without?

other than me having no other space for 2 more labels on MY personal skin.. there's nothing wrong with having 2 labels i guess

Quote:

Edit:

OOH! One more thing. Not sure if you have this already, but would it be possible to have an indicator that fires whenever you get within a certain range on ANY of the maintenance items. It could be configurable, so say you have it turn on if you're 50 miles or less away from needing any kind of service (based on your list items). I'm thinking of this as something to stick on the menu skin to tell you to check something on the maintenace skin...

right now theres no indicator.. there's a popup style menu screen that will run once per day to inform you your maintenance item is due. The popup shows:
-if maintenance mileage is 80% or more of your mileage interval
-if 80% or more of the time interval is exceeded

I could easily add indicators that will do the same thing i spose. Is once a day too much? It COULD be user-settable i guess.. but at this point there's only 2 "settings" that are all set within road runner(Odometer reading and timer interval). Adding a bunch more settings would require the old fashion way of adding/editing the .ini file... and i'd like to stray away from that if possible.

spamminator · 07-01-2009, 05:19 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by Sonicxtacy02

other than me having no other space for 2 more labels on MY personal skin.. there's nothing wrong with having 2 labels i guess

No one says that you have to use ALL the labels.

This would give people the choice.

Quote: Originally Posted by Sonicxtacy02

right now theres no indicator.. there's a popup style menu screen that will run once per day to inform you your maintenance item is due. The popup shows:
-if maintenance mileage is 80% or more of your mileage interval
-if 80% or more of the time interval is exceeded

I could easily add indicators that will do the same thing i spose. Is once a day too much? It COULD be user-settable i guess.. but at this point there's only 2 "settings" that are all set within road runner(Odometer reading and timer interval). Adding a bunch more settings would require the old fashion way of adding/editing the .ini file... and i'd like to stray away from that if possible.

Maybe instead of making it user settable have an OK command that makes it go away for that day, and an IGNORE command that makes it go away until the next maintenance item is due, for when you don't want to be bothered daily about your windshield wipers.

Sonicxtacy02 · 07-07-2009, 12:10 PM

welp... soon as i figure out why my slider (which is skinned into the "greyed" area next to the CL) is FUBAR and throw together a big *** text file i should have a beta ready.

the beta will have everything working EXCEPT the pop up screen. I'm considering not even having a pop-up screen because its implementation is messy at best. Plus if a user wanted to include a pop-up skin they could use a combination of RRExtended with a BYIND command basically. Instead there will be indicator code that can be placed on any screen that will throw the "yellow" warning image or the "red" warning image based on a maintenance item exceeding its range.

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