Hello, I developed some small controllers for racing applications and have been doing that for the last 7 years. I was an ASE Certified Master Auto Tech at one point but my certifications have expired now. I work with Motorola MCU's just about everyday of the week and have experiance with Assembly and Metrowerks Codewarrior. I also have Visual C++, I have been working on ODBII communications with my 1999 TransAm just attempting a Data Logger. After seeing the software that is about to be realesed I believe I will be on the list soon to get a copy.
I have been working on a creating Visual Gauges to display info. I am creating a new window for each gauge and sizing the window based on a percent of the current Parent Window client area size. You can drag and position them anywhere on the Parent window. I am in the process of creating a right click pop-up menu to allow the user to customize the appearance and scale of the Gauge. I would also like to include a selection that allows the user to select the update rate for each gauge and use a background timer to issue a command to the ODBII link to get the info. My plan was to use a command buffer so if a current communication was in progress it would just be added to the list and proccessed in order of first come first serve for now. I am also only using Win32 API calls to keep the Program LEAN AND MEAN as posiable. Also I hate all of the issues installing MFC libraies can bring about on older systems.
I know I have much to learn and just like learning how things work. Glad to have found this site and hope it continues to grow!