Firstly, for all those who will be staying over and going back down the M1 on the Sunday (24th), I saw that it will be closed between J32 and J35 in both directions from 00:00 until 19:30 (i.e. all day long). It says on the Traffic England website that there will be a 20 minute delay, so I assume there will be some diversions in place. I don't know if it will affect anyone, as the A1 might be the better bet for most people, but I just thought you should all know

As for the after event stuff, I too am a non-drinker (by choice and not a doctors say-so). I will not be staying the night as I don't really fancy the idea of going out into Newcastle with you but I don't mind grabbing some food with some of you (depending upon the options and who is doing what etc).

The offer of going to your house, Ben, and playing LFS sounds OK, but not the drinking beer bit! I would like to play this by ear though and make my mind up at the time (depends on how I feel, if I am talking to people or if I am being a miserable sod and just standing at the back laughing at all the bad jokes that I can't actually make out over the rest of the din in the pub! - sounds wierd I know and might not make sense, but there you go, thats me)

The karting will be fun though! See you there.

Tim

Ben, just so you know, I am going to be on holiday from the 9th (I already paid the deposit) so don't be surprised if you don't hear from me until the 17th.

If anything major happens which changes proceedings, you can assume I will go with the majority and vote on my behalf

Tim

Hi,

I voted for the new plan because with driver changes, no one ever knows where you actually are until you cross the line at the end - and you can't discuss tactics/car feel and corners etc when there is only two in a team as you get out as the other gets in.

I have driven straight for 25 minutes before and I was knackered too, but that is all part of the fun - and we get two 15 minute sessions in between which we can compare notes on racing lines etc.

Tim

Quote from Bob Smith :

IMPORTANT, PLEASE READ
...Sunday 24th...

No big deal for me, as Monday the 25th is a bank holiday and I haven't booked anywhere to stay yet (still not decided if I am staying over or not, tbh)

Tim

"Shut the boot, you're letting the water in!"

Quote from Mp3 Astra :

Great update.

I notice in Y20: When you click a place on the timeline, the replay winds further forward than where you clicked and then moves back to where you initially clicked.

For example, in the attachment, the grey bar is where I clicked, but the replay winds forward to where the yellow bar is, then instantly goes back to where I clicked first.

That is because the bar resizes itself to full screen width while it moves and then shrinks to fit the list of racers on the right hand side when it has finished. When you have the tyre view at the bottom, this doesn't happen as the tyre view is always hidden while the replay bar is loaded.

BTW, I love the replay bar sooooo much. The most useful tool when reviewing OLFSL pool races!

However, I have noticed a strangety, which may be due to lag/internet and not a bug. I have not noticed this before but I am just reviewing a league race and wanted a way to define an exact point in a race (and I mean exact!). I was just playing with the new Y20 speedy fast forward when I noticed that the lap time (shown to the racer while driving) and the replay time (shown at the bottom right next to the replay bar) get out of sync very easily.

For example, a replay starts and the lights go green at exactly 19 seconds into the replay. From this point up until split 1, the lap time and the replay time stay perfectly in sync, seperated by exactly 19 seconds.

Then when the first car crosses split 1, its lap time skips back a few hundredths of a second. All the other cars (until they cross split 1) stay in sync with the replay time.

After all cars have crossed split 1 on lap 1, they are all at different times even though they are at the same actual point in time! I would have expected them to skip backward on the track too, but they don't. So it is like they are not in the same time dimension - they are in the same place they were, but a few seconds in the future - I think!! I need to lay down!

Anyway, so I have paused the replay on lap 1, 1 minute and 19 seconds into the replay time and the lap times of each of the cars are:

Pos Lap Time shown
1 59:63
2 59:97
3 59:67
4 59:80
5 59:55
6 59:52
7 59:55
8 59:69
9 59:96
10 59:96
11 59:46
12 59:55
13 59:81
14 59:60
NOTE: this isn't their split time, this is the "time into the current lap" which if I am not mistaken should be the same because they all started the race at the same time, ie when the lights went green!

Sorry for wasting your time if this is lag or due to the internet and the timing of packets over the internet and can't be helped - but I thought I would bring it up as I had just found it and found it wierd (and not very helpful for what I was trying to do!)

Thanks
Tim

ps did I mention, thanks for the replay controls!

July seems to be an expensive month for us Brits to fly over (£120 one way incl taxes with Ryanair - haven't checked anywhere else). Compared with £90.40 return incl taxes, in early June.

I am not in any way suggesting you should move your dates around me, but just to let you know, the date you are looking at (5th July) is probably not good for me.

Tim

Quote from Bob Smith :

Thanks, much more reasonable, both in terms of price and time. 4 hours to London from here, can usually get train tickets for peanuts too.

Hmm, all very tempting. I'll keep an eye on the goings on. Prefer if I had someone to go with. I think I need to go bug Madman_CZ.

Well, if this all pans out nicely, I would like to go to Finland too. I know some of the Finnish racers (Sami inparticular) and it would be a great opportunity to meet and greet!

I will keep my eye on this thread too and we could travel together.

Tim

Hi Ben,

I am still interested and am ready to confirm!

Not interested in quad biking though (too many scare stories, I will end up hurting myself badly).

Add me to the confirmed list please!

Tim

[quote=JasonJ;701857]
connections:
1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8

number 3 guy leaves:
1...2...X...4...5...6...7...8

Guy in 8th (last) slot fills slot 3
1...2...8...4...5...6...7

Guy in slot 3 is renumbered to 3
1...2...3...4...5...6...7

New guy connects, becomes number 8
1...2...3...4...5...6...8

Just from observing the listquote]

By "list" I assume you mean the connection list at the bottom right of the screen? I have to be honest I haven't noticed this or looked for it either. I would imagine (in my limited capacity) that the above method would take more time to complete than a simple linked list which just re-pointed position 2 at position 4 therefore effectivley deleting position 3!

The above requires re-pointing position 3 at position 8, then re-pointing position 8 at position 4 and then re-pointing position 7 at NULL (ie end of the list).

I could, of course, have it completely wrong and be thinking far too simplisticly!

Tim

I believe it is the order in which they connected. Haven't really checked or proved it but I am fairly sure it is.

Tim

Quote from teedot :

ah damn, that is odd then... sorry i couldnt be of any help

But, you have seen this before then? Did you prove, beyond doubt, that it was caused when you did not have a PB?

EDIT: for completeness, I have not found an answer to this and have changed my routine to look for all laps over 1 hour instead of exactly 1 hour. I know technically, this is not the answer, because someone *could* really spend over 1 hour getting around 1 lap, but the chances of this are slim.

Tim

Last edited by t1ger, Fri 9 May 2008, 09:58. Reason : I hate threads with no answer!

Quote from teedot :

that usually only occurs if you haven't got a PB on the track currently selected....

Not in this case though, as I had been on the server for some time and it had been ok, and I had set my PB either earlier in the session or on an earlier day.

Thanks for the idea though

Tim

Hi all,

Has anyone else noticed that sometimes, and I have not worked out the circumstances yet, an outlap can be timed at over 1 hour. It seems to be 1 hour plus the time it took you to get around and start your lap. In general it seems to be after you have been connected to a server for a while and not done a lap for a bit. The server in question was in Practice mode (ie 0 laps) at the time. I tele-pitted and did another outlap and again the time was over 1 hour. I had to leave the server and join again for it to behave again.

As far as I know, it should always be 1 hour as per this post by Scawen. He does mention that in a non-compatible patch he may add another packet so the lap is counted but the time is not registered. Does anyone know about this? I can't find any reference to it in Insim.txt.

Sorry I can't be more specific at the moment, I just wanted to ask around. (I have searched as well, although the secret of searching is "what" to search for )

Thanks in advance!

Tim

Definately interested, count me in as well please!

I think I have been there many years ago - we drove up and came back down the same day (as its only 2hr 15mins away).

Tim

Quote from russraine :

Updated to X36 and this bug happened right away, and i've had it twice so far. It does not happen every time I to reproduce it. Let me know what you think.

Running LFS in a window with the mouse cursor turned on in LFS so that you can click the drivers names in the bottom right corner.

Maximizing LFS and just after quickly changing it to NAMES OVER CARS but the mouse cursor stays on screen even though it should be hidden. It might happen with other X patches, i've not tested, it just so happend to happen to me on the first time using X36.

Hope it helps.

As you now know, russraine, this is my InSim app on the server you were on displaying buttons all the time. LFS shows the mouse whenever there are buttons on the screen.

I will add the option to the InSim app for the user to hide the buttons all the time

All: Please disregard russraine's post - it is not a bug!

Thanks
Tim

I am in definately.

Just spent a good few hours playing with the new car, the new track and the AI. All good (the AI - all 17 of them (another 2 crashed) - wiped the floor with me) no problems yet at all

Then, I tried the good old XFG at BL1. My god it is hard! That little cars clutch was hotter than the sun before I had even done 5 laps! Lesson learnt: my driving style = clutch killer!

So I spent a few hours adapting my driving style, using the clutch with auto clutch off, and it is SO much more realistic! I absolutely love it. Lifting off the accelerator and then clutching down (on the G25) then changing gear, then waiting for the right revs before lifting clutch and accelerating again - feels so nice.

On the downside, not sure how this will be when I am racing a league race and others are not using a G25 and can change gear faster (due to no physical clutch and using auto-clutch) bet hey, I'll cross that bridge later.

For now, me in club!!

Tim

/googles "prepared statements", learns something new!



Tim

Hi Sam!

If you are referring to the column name, then TAA's answer will help. However, I read it that you mean there is data in the table which starts with a "#". If this is the case, then I have just done it through MySQL Query Browser like this (searching for all rows where column1 begins with a "#".


Also, it worked like this in PHP for me with no escaping needed. (I say this because lots of things in PHP and html needs escaping so I assume you mean this!)



Tim

EDIT: /me must learn to type faster!

Quote from t1ger :

Like I say, I do not deny that this is not possible, I am just saying that I would have expected to have seen it by now with the amount of testing I have done.

FYI, I have now seen this 3 times in total. However, most of the time it does not happen. I can now confirm that VB6 is not "hiding" me from it and it is possible, just nowhere near often enough for me to successfully write the code to handle it.



Tim

What about




Tim

Hmmm, how odd. Must be to do with the way VB deals with ReDimmed arrays, ie maybe it doesn't actually increase the size of the original, it just creates a new one and points the old one to the new one or something...I don't know.

How about the following:


This is 24 because we know that the four LONG variables are each 4 bytes and it must use one four byte space to hold the variable to be redimmed, thus 6 x 4 = 24.

Why not use this to find out the size:


Of course, this will fail if Example1.c and Example1.d have not been redimmed already, but if you ReDim them straight away, even just to 1, then this will overcome that.

EDIT:
Just checked to make sure I am right (I may not be)


lenb(example1) = 4 : I would expect this.


lenb(example1) = 8 : I would expect this too.


lenb(example1) = 12 : again, what I expected.

But:


lenb(example1) = 12 : this I was expecting to be 16!

Only when you add another variable (ie e(1) as Byte) does it move to 16, and then you can add another one (ie f(1) as byte) and it stays at 16!)

Oh dear, seems not to be as simple as I thought.

Tim

Last edited by t1ger, Fri 5 Oct 2007, 13:39.

Don't get me wrong, I *want* the Prius to be as green a car as possible, just like I want all cars to be greener than they are. I just think that (like all things that I don't actually fully understand) there will always be arguments.

I am sure there is a document which argues why the responses to the pacinst.org report are wrong and invalid and shouldn't be believed. Unless I know all the facts, and quite frankly I am never going to, I am never going to know which one I should actually believe is right.

oh dear, getting too deep now

/leaves conversation

Tim

ps just noticed that the Washington Post link confirms that I was right in post #198 above! hey hey, first time for everything

Last edited by t1ger, Fri 5 Oct 2007, 12:27.

Quote from Bob Smith :

...


Public Type Something
A As Long
B As Long
C() As Long
D() As Long
E As Long
F As Long
End Type


The following code does not work:


Dim Example As Something
ReDim Example.C(5)


...

How bizarre, this code works for me (except I had to declare the type as PRIVATE). Other than that I have done the following:


and get two message boxes, one which says "5" and one which says "7".

Edit: just re-read your post! It works for me, allows me to redim it OK.

Tim

Last edited by t1ger, Thu 4 Oct 2007, 15:13.