Friday, June 27, 2008

Another picture - Summary Page

Most recent screenshots. This is the training summary page.



Any of the chart tabs that are circled can be reposition (the position's are not yet persistant across sessions but will be) so you could have something like this if you wanted;



The component moving and resizing isn't visually perfect yet. In the picture above the TE scale is scrunched up and the same thing happens sometimes on the date X Axis for charts. On the 'Minutes per day' bar chart the value lables need to appear/disappear depending on density. Conversely, the TE/EPOC chart is perhaps too aggressive in hiding of point lables and the grid lines are too 'heavy'

It's this kind of detail that a) annoys me when it's not present in other software or doesn't work correctly and b) as the developer, takes lots of effort to get right.

The session detail page -



Needs completing (following a re-work to support the 'panel' interface). The session figures need to go on the left, the speed/distance chart needs adding at the bottom and a sample data table needs adding. The chart and table are dead easy, the session figures require more 'manual' labour and will probably take several hours to extract and format nicely. There's a bunch of work to add the necessary buttons to the ribbon GUI and on, and on and on it goes.

All going well I'm hoping to have a first version available by the end of the weekend. I also have a file-server rebuild/upgrade from Windows x86 2003 to 2008 x64 on the list so something's bound to slip. Somewhere my wife would like us to have a social life and we're gearing up to move from Australia back to the UK in 8-10 weeks time. You can imagine the havoc that will bring...

2 comments:

Lorenzo Gulli said...

to me it looks impressive ... do you have a beta for us to test ?

Adam Spiers said...

This is awesome work. Two comments:

1. For me the most useful view of all would be a histogram showing the amount of time spent at any given heart-rate, aggregated across multiple sessions (e.g. all running sessions last week, or all triathlon-related sessions over the last month). That would by far be the best way of being able to judge whether I'm getting the right balance of training sessions with respect to intensity over a given period of time. It also neatly solves the problem of data distortion created by having extra data at the beginning of a log when you've started recording or started wearing the memory belt but not actually started exercising, and likewise trailing recovery minutes at the end which you want to capture to have a record of recovery rates, but you don't want that time to count towards total training time.

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