The official "Post your custom-from-scratch dash" thread

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Re: The official "Post your custom-from-scratch dash" thread

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Thank you everlast foa a very cool dash. Works like a charm. :yeah!:
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A big thanks from me too! Perfect work!
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Re: The official "Post your custom-from-scratch dash" thread

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Awesome work Everlast.

I might give you a PM at some point if that's ok, I'd like to have a bash at my own, but trying to ape yours from pictures proved very troublesome, would like some tips and tricks!
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Re: The official "Post your custom-from-scratch dash" thread

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When I try to install SlimFull I get the following error: failed to suscribe DashComp to OutputChannel afrtgt1_fixed Please set to a valid OutputChannel.

Anyone have an idea why its doing that? Every files have been copied as described
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Re: The official "Post your custom-from-scratch dash" thread

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That's in the custom.ini file. You need to make sure its in the project's folder in your My Documents folder. Beyond that, I dunno.
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Re: The official "Post your custom-from-scratch dash" thread

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Yep, I copied it there. It's like its not using it or something... weird :|
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Re: The official "Post your custom-from-scratch dash" thread

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Thx for the dash everlast, working fine.
I added indicators for Output Ports PT6-IAC1 and PT7-IAC2. The output channels for these are port 4 and port 5.
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Re: The official "Post your custom-from-scratch dash" thread

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1. Every time I try to save a *.dash file it fails and I mean EVERY EVERY EVERY time... its totally broken
2. I spent Many many a hour designing my dashboard, because I use it on my 7" slide out DVD player stereo cause its easier to glance at, and tune tables on my laptop.
3. I have background in Art and design so I had a criteria for my Dashboard
a. Large Lambda Gauge for tuning
b. Basic readout MAP and RPM that are at a glance easy to locate and read
c. Matching indicators and gauges had to locate together
d. It ABSOLUTELY HAD to look cool
e. Moving background if possible

All of my criteria were met and what I came up with is simply amazing in my opinion, and I really like it.
dash screenshot 1.jpg
And heres my Histogram dash... there are TONS of overlayed tell tails within each category...
dash screenshot 2.jpg
And Yes... the flaming background is a moving *.gif image pulled from the web :yeah!:
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Re: The official "Post your custom-from-scratch dash" thread

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I am guessing you are saving it to the default dash folder:
[TunerStudioInstallDir]\Dash\

The trouble there is if you are on Win7 or Vista, you don't have write access to those dirs and it would fail unless you are running as administrator.

I better change that default save dir to a dir in your documents folder.
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so all I have to do is save to a different folder? I am running Win7 and I assume as an administrator, unless it has to be ran from the tool tips as an administrator in which case no
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so all I have to do is save to a different folder?
Yep...

In Win7 and Vista, even if your user is an Administrator, the application doesn't get Administrator rights unless you set it to "Run As Administrator" in the exe properties, then it will pop up that UAC message every time you start it. This is a major step forward in widows security, but probably causes the majority of all compatibility problems with apps.
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(To be fair though Phil, Windows programming best practices have encouraged writing to only Appdata and My Documents since 2001. Not judging, just saying. :))
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(To be fair though Phil, Windows programming best practices have encouraged writing to only Appdata and My Documents since 2001. Not judging, just saying. :))
Agreed, it should be. Judging what? TS does work in My Documents, or the home dir.
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Re: The official "Post your custom-from-scratch dash" thread

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Perhaps my tongue in cheek humor wasn't shining through my typed words. Its the home directory writing that's a no-no, has been for a long time. Nothing should write to Program Files once the installer is complete. For non-user data, you're supposed to use the owner/appdata/appname folder.
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Nothing should write to Program Files once the installer is complete. For non-user data, you're supposed to use the owner/appdata/appname folder.
Yep, nothing is.... Win7 will see to that. Hence the original problem, the user was trying to save the file to the install dir under program files. I will give you that TS shouldn't default there :) That is something that needs to change.
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Re: The official "Post your custom-from-scratch dash" thread

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Yeah Yeah... what he said
LT401Vette wrote: TS shouldn't default there :)
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Re: The official "Post your custom-from-scratch dash" thread

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I can confirm that when you right click -> Load / Save -> Export /Save As it defaults to the Program Files directory. Maybe that's what the other user was seeing?
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Probably... Ill check it out when I get home... I got a lot of stuff to do that are MS and car related anyway
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Re: The official "Post your custom-from-scratch dash" thread

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Has anyone tried making a Lexus LFA themed dash for TS? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6D7S2rcyIQ
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krhodes wrote:Has anyone tried making a Lexus LFA themed dash for TS? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6D7S2rcyIQ
A couple minor changes to the default "analog bar" gauge and you've got that gauge. I really don't like how twitchy the tachometer needle is, looks like an early alpha version of the firmware for that dash, that needle would drive me insane twitching like that. All in all, that gauge is pretty unremarkable, we can do so much more than that gauge is doing.
Check out this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krL6v1h6jog I think it blows away that LFA gauge..
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