How will you be exchanging data, Unless you plan to reuse his original code and essentialy create a front end?

Probably a discussion for a different thread ... but basically I will wrap his C code in a DLL and create a C# application that uses the DLL, calling into his code via the DLL interface allowing me to develop the app independently of his code - so if he upgrades his code I can just update the DLL and not my GUI code!

That is the plan anyway, its just investigation at the moment into whether this is feasible.

Edit: This also allows any language capable of supporting DLLs to use it! So you could create a VB app that uses the same DLL if you so wished ...

-wolfman

Right over the top my head
I will just stick with S7 statement list...that's about my limit.
Sounds good though and when it's finished,it sure is going to be something to see.

Which means of course that I have to unroll my code to simplify the factorisation...

For any software engineers sniggering at my efforts, I'd just like to say that this is an essentially linear approach at present, really just a proof-of-concept. Elegant code happens later!

I'd wait till I prove the concept works barnacle, no point in wasting your time if it doesn't!

-wolfman

Great work Barnacle.

Oh and Barnacle, for god's sake man, use the proper parlance! Call it a prototype and announce the fact you are going to be using agile development via the scrum methodology so that you can synergise the product development and voila, no one cares what the code looks like now, they will just have confused looks on their faces!

-wolfman

Just a teaser not much to see as my car is not indoors and hence not connected but...
should have B'sWCSv0.5b finished hopefully on Monday and may just may post a video....



sorry for the thread-jack

Keep up the good work. But don't get too deep in the logic - I'm just testing a complete rewrite of the comms software. It uses more palatable structurea now instead of globals all over the place, makes it easier to encapsulate.

Shame it doesn't quite work!

Neil what's the main benefit of bypassing the widget?
My software is not standalone it uses the Barnacle widget and just reads data from that. It should output errors in English as well as binary (so you can check that its got it right) and the last function will be to allow the user to alter the widget display with drop down list boxes.
I may add some graphing and telemetry functions too.

The advantage of this, as against the widget, are:

1) it's significantly cheaper than the widget
2) I don't have any widgets for sale at present and won't have in the foreseeable future
3) it can display all the running data on one screen
4) it can display errors and error history in text
5) it can delete the error memory.
6) I don't have to do any soldering!

Other than that, it's crap!

Excellent work

Had a fiddle earlier and can confirm it works on a 20V NA

Actually found my long lost ecu connector in the engine bay after a good hunt. Result!

I take it the errors are shown where I've got the immobiliser issue mentioned?:

Yeah, and you found a bug in the software, too... I forgot the error count!

You must be on the first version? Try the second one.

I'll try it tomorrow barnicle and let you know how I get on.
I'll post some screen shots too as someone else could not be arsed

Someone else is trying to find out why the tidied up version won't talk to the serial port any more ???

Id expect that some one else is questing why he bothers on occasion with posts like that

Pardon

Chill, Sam - Paul's teasing me.

Im having a bad day, please ignore me

does anyone have any links to the required cables for sale??

I do but I can't be arsed doing it.....

Ok...I

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150394801457&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220560818367&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT

Ok...
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150394801457&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150394801457&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT

I have absolutely no idea what any of this computer speak is about but it all looks very interesting.

For a man who does have a computer but has no idea how or why it works, is this thing that Neil has invented easy enough for me to put on a lap top and make things happen.

My computing technical ability stretches to putting a disc in a laptop and waiting for the disc to change the picture on the screen unfortunately.

Give me anything mechanical or electrical and I can fix it, give me a computer and I'm stuck

Yes. That's the whole point. But wait a couple of days; there's another version due out, probably later today. No functional change but a lot of internal changes and some bugfixes.

Thanks for this, Im looking forward to testing with it.

Updated version
http://www.nailed-barnacle.co.uk/coupe/startrek/startrek_bosch_v2.zip

Usage as the last version; startrek_bosch_v2 4 (assuming your USB is at serial port com4).

Minor bugfixes: missing error counts inserted, changed some warning colour levels slightly, text cue for error deletion.

Major internal changes: to make life simpler for anyone trying to wrap a GUI around it, I've simplified the calls to the packet handling for the comms signal. Also factored out the conversion from error type/code to text. Could still use the initialisation routine factoring out - next time?

Previous version known to work with XP, Vista, W7 and on 20V and 20VT (won't work on VIS, can't do much about that).

Confirmation of this version working would be appreciated (OK on W7 64 bit).