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Online support
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Initially, the speaker functions had been implemented
in the add-on OESpeaker for OE/MT2003. Today they are included
in the OE2010 Pro license and still available as OSSpeaker for OS2003.
You can support all intermediate
times for each runner. They can be entered manually or transmitted online
from the control stations, both wired or by radio transmitting. For example,
the finish stations can be monitored. Thus the speaker can get the official
time immediately if he does not want to wait until the chip had
been read.
The speaker can watch online all times and placings of the selected
class in a special speaker window and talk about this. The display is
updated every second automatically. You can customize the layout of the
table by multiple selection and sort options.
During the race, you can print current intermediate results from the
radio controls and publish this.
If you want to watch several classes
simultaneously, you can (you should!) operate the SportSoftware
in a network.
Support of an external display
medium
A function to drive any display media is included. It had been
initially implemented to support live TV reports from the Park
World Tour.
This function offers a well defined interface to external DLLs which
can be implemented by any 3rd party.
You can display the current running time of any runner at any radio control
or at the finish. The next to beat and the leading runner is shown in
two extra lines. Once the runner had punched the radio control or crossed
the finish line, the time will stop and his current placing will be displayed.
With the SportSoftware, a sample Demo DLL is included which
uses this interface and emulates a display in an extra window.
This DLL must be replaced by a special one to drive real display boards.
Interested
programmers or users can
ask me for
the source code (Delphi Pascal) of this DLL. This is easily to understand
and the definitions
may be converted to any other programming language, for example C#.
The external DLL can be written in any programming language.
Special features for relays
Because the runners have different courses, at relays only
the common controls of each class/leg will be monitored.
Some additional information given here may be useful for the speaker, f.ex.
time/place of each team at the previous changeover, or the name of the next
runner (who
is taking over from the currently finishing runner), running times of the current
leg, etc.
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