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OESpeaker/OSSpeaker: Online support
for the speaker |
OESpeaker2003 is an add on for OE2003/MT2003 and designed
to support the speaker.
OESpeaker is available for OE2003 and MT2003.
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 OESpeaker in a network.
For OESpeaker, you should use a hardware which is powerful enough to
provide the necessary performance. As a minimum, a PC equipped with 1GHz
processor and 512MB memory is recommended.
You can download the trial
version of OESpeaker from the download
page.
Support of an external display
medium
A new function to drive any display media is now 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 OESpeaker, 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 6 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 of
OSSpeaker
Because the runners have different courses, OSSpeaker monitors only the common
controls of each class/leg.
Some additional information given here may be useful for the soeaker, 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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