Thursday, June 19, 2008

Simon 1, Lap times 0

Isn't it funny how you complain about something and then make a break-through? So the lap times are done and dusted - mostly. With my data, lap records are 576 bytes long and to be honest there's an awful lot of data in those 576 bytes that I can't account for.

One of my jobs over the weekend will be to use the autolap features of my Bike and Foot Pods to see if that makes a difference, but for now, manual laps work just fine. The one caveat here is that I've only recently started using laps and so far have only tested a few of my files (2.1.x and 2.3.x). I need to expand the test application to parse all the sessions I have for further verification.



I'd like to say thanks to Willem Minten whose document I referred to to shortcut the process of working out the contents of an exported .sdf file. There's an huge difference between the textual .sdf representations and the underlying binary files but it was really helpful to have an additional reference - and one that I hope to be able to refer to over the weekend regarding the lap source types (manual, autolap, inserted via STRaM etc)

If anyone has any special requests regarding the representation of lap data, speak up!

Cheers

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