Announcer Screen

The Announcer Screen provides detailed information about the cars staged, on course, and the last car that finished. There are five panels, starting from the top shows the driver at Stage/Start. Below that is Next In, this would be the driver on course. In the case where you have multiple drivers on course at a time, this would be the next driver to finish. Stage/Start and Next In display the same information of the given driver. Finish displays the same and their current finish time with penalty. Announcements include an AI Announcer panel at the bottom of the window as guide for volunteer announcers to follow.

Located on the left side of the Announcer Screen are the Top Ten Raw and Top Ten Indexed drivers for the event.

Located on the bottom left is the Announcements AI Display. When a driver passes through finish, this Display will script, or "write out" the announcement, including the drivers position and weather they improved their best run or not.

Finish-Time will attempt to display the Announcer Screen upon start-up if there is a second monitor attached to the computer. To display the screen, select View > Announcer Screen from the menu bar.


Finish-Time Details

Toolbar

When you navigate to any of the opened Function Panels, their associated Toolbar will appear at the top of the Application Window. Each of the Function Tabs are dismissible by clicking the Close widget on the Tab. This makes for an easy to use, uncluttered appearance. The Toolbar is also customizable, right-click anywhere over the Toolbar and choose Toolbar label options to your preference.

The Timing Function Panel is not dismissible.

Notifications

Upon starting Finish-Time, the Notification Accessory is hidden. There are two ways to open it, if there is already one Notification pending, appears at the bottom right side of the Window. Clicking this icon reveals any pending Notifications for you to act on. Or, click View > Notifications and choose Notifications

Finish-Time performs several integrity checks during a Timed Event, ie: a driver has run more than the allotted runs. Or a driver has not taken any timed runs. These notifications will be listed here for you to act on.

Top Ten Raw Times

Displays the Top 10 drivers sorted by Raw times.

Top Ten Indexed Times

Displays the Top 10 drivers sorted by RTP/PAX Indexed times.

T-Link Integrity Status

Display both battery and radio signal status in real time of the RaceAmerica T-Link timing system.


Error Log Example

Finish-Time logs any errors, with the option to send the logs to finish-time.com, below is an example of what it sent to our server. We do not collect any personal data, the USER listed on line #7 is your Club Name which the application is registered to.

Although this option is disabled by default, we encourage you to enable it so that if there are any bugs in the application, we can track them down and improve the application for everyone.

8/26/2017 8:44:48 PM ERROR: ********************************************************************
8/26/2017 8:44:48 PM ERROR: OS NAME: Windows 10
8/26/2017 8:44:48 PM ERROR: OS VERSION: 10.0.10586
8/26/2017 8:44:48 PM ERROR: TYPE: NilObjectException
8/26/2017 8:44:48 PM ERROR: MEMORY: 43311104
8/26/2017 8:44:48 PM ERROR: OBJECTS: 1225
8/26/2017 8:44:48 PM ERROR: VERSION: 4.0.0
8/26/2017 8:44:48 PM ERROR: BUILD: 488 2017-08-26
8/26/2017 8:44:48 PM ERROR: CPU: x32 (DebugBuild)
8/26/2017 8:44:48 PM ERROR: USER: SpeedCode Software, LLC
8/26/2017 8:44:48 PM ERROR: ----
8/26/2017 8:44:48 PM ERROR: wLookup.wLookup.CloseList%%o
8/26/2017 8:44:48 PM ERROR: wLookup.wLookup.SelectDriver%%os
8/26/2017 8:44:48 PM ERROR: wLookup.wLookup.Listbox1_CellClick%b%ooi4i4i4i4
8/26/2017 8:44:48 PM ERROR: Delegate.IM_Invoke%b%oi4i4i4i4
8/26/2017 8:44:48 PM ERROR: AddHandler.Stub.17%b%i4i4i4i4
8/26/2017 8:44:48 PM ERROR: Delegate.Invoke%%
8/26/2017 8:44:48 PM ERROR: Application._CallFunctionWithExceptionHandling%%op
8/26/2017 8:44:48 PM ERROR: _Main
8/26/2017 8:44:48 PM ERROR: % main
8/26/2017 8:44:48 PM ERROR: ********************************************************************

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