Superb update!
Looks good, thanks man. Just an idea: Have it go invisible after certain amount of time when mouse pointer is not hovering over the bar or the chat window. And here's the cool idea, have 0-10 steps of transparency/opacity (which ever is the right word hehe) that the user can set that makes the bar+chat window go either fully transparent when not used (apart from if a message comes which then it will come full opacity automatically) or not fully transparent but almost so its still visible but not in the way.
Ah gotcha on the mouse over activation part. When you mention it i dont actually remember an app that does that... But maybe a way to just dim it semi transparent and make it "pop out" opacity when a message comes in to call for attention to the driver. Then goes back to semi transparent again.It's almost like you've hacked my ToDo list!
I've been somewhat fixated lately on "hiding" apps when they are not needed. I'm not sure how Kunos is detecting when you "mouse over" an app in AC, so I need to track down some code that does that. Does anyone know of an add-on app that does this (reacts to a mouse-over event)?
Another thought I've had lately is something very much like "0-10 steps", but not just transparency. AC has the CTRL-H option where you can turn all your apps on and off. What I'd like to do is create steps in between fully on and fully off. In many computer systems there's a notion of "verbosity", which basically means "how much data am I showing you". There are times that I wish I could leave my apps on screen, but just reduce the amount of info they are presenting. Let's take the performance delta as an example. It would be nice if I could "turn it down" to stop showing me the live delta and just show me a sector delta while continuing to let me know when I've gone off track and what my final lap time is. Or maybe I'd like to just see my final lap time and when I go off-track, but no sector times. I'd also like all my apps to react to this "verbosity setting" simultaneously, as would be relevant for each one. Or that may be thinking "a little too big".
But yeah, short answer is that's in my plan, just not sure when I'll get around to something like you're suggesting (my time for fun coding is unfortunately limited).
Cheers,
Esotic
I will do that.If you're comfortable with editing python feel free to take a stab at that.
I'm a patient man.(no promises on when)
If you specify the admin password in AC or Content Manager you will not have to click the "Enable Admin" button before you can use the "Restart Session" and "Next Session" buttons.
V1.5 moves all the message defaults into the INI, which you can customize to include/exclude whatever messages you prefer.
If you could arrange the display in two lines, with a gap between the lines it would be more compact