Racelogic VBOX LITE Hardware & Software Manual - page 54
VIDEO VBOX LITE MANUAL
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22 December 2009
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A Text element is a live textual display of either GPS, CAN, or lap-timing parameters.
There are two main components of a Text Display, the parameter displayed by the
element and the format of the text displayed. These components have editable
properties which allow the user to customise the appearance of existing Text Display or
create entirely new ones. These are accessed through the Element properties window
and are as follows:
Text Element Creation
1: Starting a New Text Display
From the Menu bar select ‘Elements’ ‘New’, this produces a dropdown
menu listing the different types of Element it is possible to add to the Scene
e.g. Gauge, Image, Picture-In-Picture etc.
Selecting ‘Text’ will add a new Text Element to the Main View Window. The Element
Properties window will now reflect the properties of the Text Element just created.
2: Selecting the Parameter
This selects theparameterto be displayed by the Text Display. The user has
the option of choosing one of the GPS parameters such as speed. If a CAN
Database has been loaded into the software and assigned to the software
CAN channel the user also has the choice of selecting this CAN parameter.
NB: See the ‘Logging CAN channel’ Section for more information
Lap-Timing is also selectable under parameter. Various lap parameters such
as current lap, current lap time, best lap time, current split time are selectable for display in a text Element.
NB: See the ‘Displaying Lap-Timing Channels’ Section below for more information
3: Defining the Format
The format of the Text Display can be controlled by setting the number of
integer and decimal places used to display the selected parameter.
The user can also choose whether the parameter is displayed with leading
zeros or padded with blank space.
NB: If the selected parameter is not a decimal value then only the number of integer places can be modified.