Great tip! Should have thought of that myself...
It's al working now, thanks!

In the (not too far away) past I used the RotateEveryNbRaces var to determine the variables in a "Race x of y' display (x being the current race, y being RotateEveryNbRaces).
I've started to implement the rotation-feature again on some of my servers, also using this 'Race x of y' display again, but this doesn't work out as it did before. No matter how I try, but I always seem to end up getting an empty string when trying to use the RotateEveryNbRaces-var (and yes, it has been set in the config.. ). Was this designed to be this way, or might it be a bug? I'm using the 500servers-Lapper, which is at 5.8.4.3 at this moment.

Searched the doc's for it, but couldn't find what I was looking for: Is there already a way to retrieve the user that did the fastest lap in a race?
If not, could this one be added?

Quote from franky500 :

simply use your Control panel login details.

Didn't work for me. It's not all that important, so you won't have to bother looking into this. After changing the IP-adresses my servers are up and running again. Everything looking AOK!

Quote from franky500 :

If your server is busy at the time, i will wait and do the changeover at a later time.

As far as my [R-R]-servers are concerned, don't mind them being busy..
You can shut them down anyway and startup the new ones.

Dean,

Will this move be concluded by sunday-evening? We'll be starting a 24h qualification session at 20:30CET of that evening. I guess that won't be a problem that late in the weekend?

And down again....

Ok, just got a connection to the Console and the website again.. Things might be up and running again.

Quote from ATC Rogue :

he or I will update when more information is received.

No news yet? :S

Emails? Haven't seen any..
What I read here is all I know. Things still appear to be down.. :S

Well, I can do a bit of programming (learned several languages in the past) but am new to Visual Studio.
Right now I'm puzzled where and when the <user>.txt files are being read. I can find methods to do so in the fileinfo.cs, but I can't find any call to these methods anywhere. I can add a variable to this file, it's being written properly, but isn't being read back when it's meant to be..
Can anyone put me in the right direction?

Quote from Gai-Luron :

Connection to manage LFSLapper is done via TCP port like insim, via packet. You can admin LFSLapper with php or any other application in TCP.

I should have known.. That's of course the smart way of doing this.

Gai, you write:
"- Admin LFSLapper via console command on console windows, coming soon a GUI interface to administrate LFSLapper remotely".
How will this be done? And how should Lapper be controlled at this moment?

Why I ask this: I guess many game-hosts are not very eager to give shell-access away, and for the future: if this will be a web-interface, one should also have access to a webserver (which also isn't an available feature by default at most gamehosts)?

Not seeing any reaction, a small reminder.. : could this be an option?

Quote from YamaSuba.NL :

Using Lapper-defined handicaps (car-based as well as userfile-based) on one of my servers I have a request for the !top and !near lists..
It would be nice if these lists could be expanded with the used restriction for a player when driving the listed time.
Would give some extra insight on the value of the listed laptimes given the used restrictions..

Using Lapper-defined handicaps (car-based as well as userfile-based) on one of my servers I have a request for the !top and !near lists..
It would be nice if these lists could be expanded with the used restriction for a player when driving the listed time.
Would give some extra insight on the value of the listed laptimes given the used restrictions..

Quote from YamaSuba.NL :

Nice one! I already used a variable for displaying the used cars in an infobar at the top of the screen, so implementing the adaptive !top command was a piece of cake. Thanks!

BTW: When using the rotation-facility it should be even faster to implement. If you use $CurrRotateCar, you wouldn't have to worry about defining/setting the $DTC variable. Just adapting the !top command using $CurrRotateCar in stead of $DTC should be enough.

Quote from 'Yisc[NL :

And guess what..............I've found a solution

Nice one! I already used a variable for displaying the used cars in an infobar at the top of the screen, so implementing the adaptive !top command was a piece of cake. Thanks!

Quote from delcotron :

So there's no way to use lapper in a public server while allowing anonymous users to VOTE for baning/kicking other users? There must be a way, isn't it?

<small offtopic reaction>
Question remains if you really want that.
On several occasions I've seen users being banned by fellow-racers after making one small mistake. One frustrated racer can make other users being thrown off servers for no apparent reason. When one racer starts a vote, others blindly follow without knowing what is happening. Beginning racers turn their back to the game when being voted off the servers for making the small mistakes every beginner makes.
I myself would vote for leaving the banning actions to the admins. They usually have a better view on the overall behavior of racers..
<back ontopic, don't react, just some food for thought>

Quote from KassadGLA :

i've got an error when i try to use the PHP lapper viewer.

Not knowing the viewer: Do you have to provide some parameters to it when starting it? Looking at the contents of the SQL-statement there seems to be one "USERNAME 02" too many, causing the other parameters to shift to the right. Result is wrong data in the wrong parameter.

Quote from oldnavy :

and want a text at server in top of screen.Becouse if i put standart buton code it wont works propertly.

Yupz, that doesn't work as one would want at this moment. On my servers I used a small workaround to get as near as possible to the desired effect. The intended button is constructed in a MsgAction Sub, which is being called in RaceStartAction by a cmdLFS. So the "host" will provide for the button.

Register MsgAction("!inf",MA_inf);
Sub MA_inf()
closeGlobalButton( "infbar"...etc...);
openGlobalButton( "infbar"...etc...);
..etc...
EndSub

Event RaceStartAction()
cmdLFS("!inf");
...etc....
EndEvent

One could also do such things in other events. The "OnConnect" might be such a location. Didn't test it there myself..

I've been trying to get a button working in the "Race Action" section but didn't succeed. The intention was to show some text onscreen which just sits there continuously. I finally made it work by means of a cmdLFS which enters a lappercommand that executes a sub with the button, but that's in fact a workaround..
Might this be a limitation of the possibilities in this section?

Quote from Yisc[NL] :

Yes, it does show good/great lap from others because that's set as a global button and therefor shown on the pitboard of all users.

There's a small error there.. You're right about the global button being shown on the pitboard of others, but this global button also remains active when others don't use the pitboard. In that case it shows like a floating button.. In my setup I've changed it into a private button and put the /msg outside the if-statement for everyone to see.

Quote from Tim NL :

Here are some parts of my config file.

I've adopted your menu on both my servers, by the way (only enlarged it a bit.. ).
It fullfills an "old" wish to comfort the lovers as well as the haters of the pitboard.. Thanks for this one!

Maybe it's an idea to have a RaceFinishAction as well as a RaceStartAction. Would be nice to be able to show some info at the Finish-moment, such as announcing restarts will be executed automagically, or that a car/track rotation is coming up.

Furhermore: I've tried to show a message (tried both /msg and a button) when entering the garage at a rotation (OnCar/TrackRotate) but that doesn't seem to work. Is there anything special I should take in account at that moment, or have I stumbled upon a small bug?

Quote from 'Yisc[NL :

I know you have a built in var for that

I've been looking for those, didn't find them.
Of course one could define a counter oneself, but there's always a risk not taking special events into account, like restart- and endrace-commands. In that case they will starting to differ from the built-in counter(s).