TS can't open my saved dashboards

[Joachim]

Hello,

I've been designing some dashboards in TS, without problems. However, if I save my project, including the dashboard file, and try to open the .dash file again, I get a strange "unexptected error". I've attachted an image of it. The log file goes like this:

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04-10-08 23:07:11 :Error Reported: Unexpected Error occured opening project.
	null
java.lang.NullPointerException
	at com.efiAnalytics.tunerStudio.G.a(GaugeClusterStateManager.java:315)
	at com.efiAnalytics.tunerStudio.l.a(GaugeCluster.java:1011)
	at com.efiAnalytics.tunerStudio.l.e(GaugeCluster.java:993)
	at com.efiAnalytics.tunerStudio.W.a(AppEventManager.java:223)
	at com.efiAnalytics.tunerStudio.W.d(AppEventManager.java:146)
	at com.efiAnalytics.tunerStudio.W.a(AppEventManager.java:61)
	at com.efiAnalytics.tunerStudio.W$b.run(AppEventManager.java:713)

Actually, I'm able to open the dashboard files if I haven't made too many changes to the default dashboards, but if i spend more than something like 5 minutes on changes, it won't open the file again. Is it a bug or am I doing something wrong ?

Regards

[LT401Vette]

The stack trace helps.. It takes me to where I can see if you don't have an OutputChannel set it can cause a NullPointerException.

I added protection for that. In the mean time, make sure there is some Output Channel set for any gauges you add befor saving and reopening.

Thanks for reporting it.

[Joachim]

Thanks! I added an outputchannel to the gauge that needed it, and now I can reopen the file...

Actually, I used a gauge with a "null" output channel to create some graphics with another gauge - but I was wondering, are you going to include some more graphical features in the future releases? Such as circles, polygons and pictures to create an even better dashboard ? For example, if TS supported import of .png with transparency, that could really improve the gauges' appearance.

Anyway, thanks for a great app!

[LT401Vette]

I am planning to.
Images for a gauge background and I have quite a few more gauge styles in mind too. Any particular style you are looking for shoot it out, it may no be to hard to just create a new painter to do it.