here is a screenshot of what i just completed. a completly open source guage option. its not frilly, yet.. and that iat reading is correct, +- a few degrees fahrenheit ;)

[img]http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~steege/ecucontrol/success.JPG[/img]

and here are links to the source and the install files.

[url]http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~steege/ecucontrol/EcuControl5_NetSource.zip[/url]
[url]http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~steege/ecucontrol/EcuControl5_NetInstall.zip[/url]

Changes:
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almost all of the vb files that were originally distributed have been changed to comment out old code. the old code is still there, but since the classes they rely on are proprietary, i commented them out and started over. so you may notice a couple class files missing, but those files pertained to the old proprietary code. you should also notice a new class file called DigitalGuage.vb that contains the new guage class. at this point the project compiles fine without any notion of the old proprietary code. and for all you small screen laptop people..me included.. there is a SCROLLABLE GUAGE WINDOW!!! so now you can see which guages you want if you have a 5 inch screen, or all of the guages even if you only have a 10 in screen. 

Issues:
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this is pretty much an alpha release. there are menu items that i didnt get rid of, or that refer to functionality that may or may not be implemented yet. down the road we can clean them up and enable them, but i wanted to get a OS guage system out there as fast as possible so that everyone can hack away at it and still monitor what is going on as a functioning peice of software. i dont expect there to be any major problems, but if anyone finds one, just post them in this thread or somewhere on this forum. 

Requirements for Install:
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since this relies on the microsoft .net framework, you will need a copy of the microsoft .net framework 1.1 redistributable package, which can be found here: [url]http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=262d25e3-f589-4842-8157-034d1e7cf3a3&displaylang=en[/url]. the .net framework is a good thing, because it lets people who program in different languages interract more efficiently.. and i like it. and as always, the *nix and mac people cant use it.. sorry.

i ran my version on a pentium 233 laptop with 64 meg of ram and it did just fine, a little slow on the refresh and frame opening, but it is otherwise the same as before.

i didnt post this or commit it to the ecucontrol sourceforge project because i didnt want to overwrite anything or blow away files that i deleted to get this all to work.. but ill commit or if someone wants to commit on my behalf with the approval of the mods, go for it. 