Dashboard Monitor v1.3

Technical Technical Discussion
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I would like to let you know I have uploaded Dashboard Monitor v 1.3 to the Whitepapers area of chiefdelphi.com.

This program is written in VB. It allows you to monitor and record dashboard output from your Innovation First Operator Interface module. Labels are customizable. Recorded data can be played back in slower speed and single-stepping. A cvs converter is coming soon.

Please email me [email protected] if you have any questions or problems running this program.

Enjoy.

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I just posted the csv file converter for my Dashboard Monitor program. Please download it from the White Papers area of this web site.

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I would like to ask feedbacks from those people who downloaded my program.

Are there any complaints and/or suggestions?

Thanks.

4

Is it possible for you to share your source, or how you accomplished this. I’m interested in writing a dashboard program, but want something a little differently configured.

Thanks, I also sent you an email.

5

Andy,

I really don’t want to give out all the source code at this time.
However, I will post a sample VB project to the White Papers area in the next several days. It is going to contain the core dashboard communication subroutines. It should be a good starting point.

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Ok, that would be great!

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A very simple VB project is now posted in the White Papers area.

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I downloaded the program, and have it opened up in VB. However I"m not in the lab right now and won’t be able to test it out until later tonight. I’m guessing that the following lines:

AnalogInput(1) = DataBuffer(3)
AnalogInput(2) = DataBuffer(5)
AnalogInput(3) = DataBuffer(7)
AnalogInput(4) = DataBuffer(9)
AnalogInput(5) = DataBuffer(11)
etc…

set the different data streams being passed from the basic stamp to visual basic variables. So therefore, if I wanted a textbox to display the results of analoginput(1), then I’d set the caption of textbox to

textbox1.caption=AnalogInput(1)

Thanks for all your help!

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Andy,

That is right. If you want to get fancy, you get even plot a running graph of these values.

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*Originally posted by GreenDice *
**Andy,

I really don’t want to give out all the source code at this time.
However, I will post a sample VB project to the White Papers area in the next several days. It is going to contain the core dashboard communication subroutines. It should be a good starting point. **

Your dashboard program looks very nice. I also downloaded your piece of VB code, which should be useful. Do you have any plans to release the complete source to your dashboard monitor someday?

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I would like to work on the next version during this off-season. The future enhancements include:

  1. graphical representation of steering direction and output
  2. allow user to hide/show individual values
  3. flexibility on how to show the values
    etc…

If people really want to write their own front-end instead of using a customizable one, I rather release a ActiveX Control that allow you to attach event handling code to process dashboard data. I really hesitate to release my source code (at its current state) because it is not ready to be released. I wrote the program in a week – without the proper engineering.

The short answer - I won’t release the source code before the next season.

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FYI:

Dashboard Monitor 1.3 installs and works on a laptop running Windows 95B, and I think the laptop is 166.Mhz/40.Meg RAM.

The display works fine. I didn’t try the logging feature yet.