Development diary (of sorts)

[djandruczyk]

Latest development branch has been merged back to master, and includes a new performance feature called "deferred tabs", where it looks like hte tabs are loaded, but they relaly aren't until you actually click on them, so if tehre are tabs you don't normally use you'll never wait on megatunix loading and rendernig them. Previously depending on your computer speed megatunix could take a very long time to get ready (upwards of 30 seconds or more on slower systems or MS2-E 3.1 due to its thousands of controls). I've altered the behavior so that it should be up and ready in under 5 seconds or even faster, and the only potential delay you may get is on INITIAL click of a tab, going back to that tab later should be near instant.

Also a recent addition is the ability to specify the ECU persona on the command line, i.e. ./megatunix -p ms2 will bypass the persona selection screen and immediately begin searching for an MS2 compatible firmware. There's a whole pile of little known command line options to do things like automatic datalogging, disable certain screens or prompts (-q option for "quiet"). Being able to specify the comm port to use in case you have multiple serial devices and don't want to try and poke the wrong device by mistake. etc run "./megatunix --help" for more information.

The firmware loading tools have similar features now as well, and the loading tools is capable of loading ms1, ms2 and freeems (a non-ms ECU that uses the s12x CPU) . ITs possible that the loader tol could be used for any sort of s12x based items, feel free to explore, but no warrantee is provided in case you brick your project.


All of this is currently ONLY available via a Git checkout, see here http://msextra.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=106&t=35786