We got a lot of feedback in the wake of version 28. One thing in particularly stood out: Current Values and the Min/Max window are too cluttered. Most of the time, nobody cares about the Latitude channel or the PDOP channel, so why show it?

Fear not: We fixed it in version 30. In both min/max and in current values, you can now select which channels you’d like to see. You can also change their order by dragging and dropping the channels around in the channel list.

We also squeezed a few other fixes into this release:

• In version 28, we lost the ability to fix the magnet delay. In version 30, we brought it back. Just right-click on the run, and select “Fix Splits” to recover from a misconfigured lap timer.
• The default color for the first lap is, and has always been, red. The default color for the second lap used to be blue, but people reported that blue was hard to see on the dark background, so we switched it to green.
• We improved handling of files from the Unipro 6003. Some files didn’t import correctly even though they contained valid data. This is now fixed.
• There were some aesthetic issues involving pinned runs and the “fix splits” functionality, which we took care of.

Press the “Select Channels” button, and this window comes up. You can select and deselect channels, and reorder them by dragging them around in the list.

As always, you can get the new version from the downloads page, or simply restart your old version of Off Camber Data. For feedback, feel free to just comment on the blog, or send us an email at feedback@offcamberdata.com!

Pretty quick one here as we received a lot of good feedback after our last release.

To counter the headlining feature of version 28, the main feature of this release is lap deselection. There are now two easy ways to deselect laps. The first is to click the selected lap in the list of laps. If multiple laps are selected, this will select one lap. If you click that one lap again, it will deselect it.

New way to deselect laps

The second way is to use the status bar. When you hover over a lap’s information, you’ll see a red  button appear like in the screen capture.

Clicking the red button will deselect that lap.

Besides lap deselection we have various bug fixes. The two big fixes were for auto-resizing the lap selection window when a session is unpinned and for remembering when the current values window is open.

As always, you can get the new version from the downloads page, or simply restart your old version of Off Camber Data. For feedback, feel free to just comment on the blog, or send us an email at feedback@offcamberdata.com!

Today, I am more than happy to announce version 28 of Off Camber Data. This time, the headline feature is New Lap Selection. In the previous versions, runs were grouped by track and by day. That worked fine if you have only one or two drivers, and only a few runs for each of them. However, most of you have far more drivers than that, drivers in different classes, and a lot of runs per driver. So we sat down and redesigned the way you choose which laps to select from scratch.

New Lap Selection in all its glory

It now looks something like the screenshot on the left. At the top, you can see the “Add run …” button. When you click it, you see a table with all your runs. You can filter by track, driver, or class, and you can sort the table whichever way you want. Select your runs from the table, and they will show up in the list under the “Add run …” button. You can click on the header to expand the run and see the laps in it, like I did here with the two runs with the driver Dirk. You can also click on the right side of the header to “pin” the run. Pinning the run gives it its own column, like I did here with the driver Matt. To remove a run from the list, click the button next to “Add run …”, and all the arrows turn into Xs. Click one of the Xs, and the run disappears from the list.

If you have a small screen, and you really want to investigate some details of the graph, remember that you can hide Lap Selection altogether by clicking the big “Lap Selection” button at the top. Click the button again to bring it back.

If you have two screens, you can grab the Lap Selection window and drag it to your other screen. That way, you can really focus on the graphs and tables!

We also put a few other improvements into this release:

• Status bar showing currently selected laps with delta times
• Split markers on the Track Map
• The horizontal marker in the graph now has the color of the lap. This is a minor change, but it makes reading the graph much easier.
• Improved column sizing in Current Values
• Better axis in the histogram

As always, you can get the new version from the downloads page, or simply restart your old version of Off Camber Data. For feedback, feel free to just comment on the blog, or send us an email at feedback@offcamberdata.com!