Facebook

Login

Support Sailonline

If you haven't already - join the SAILONLINE YACHT CLUB!

Please also consider making a donation - all amounts are greatly appreciated!

Board » Technical Support » Client Update (3Jul)

Page: 1 2 Next

Posted by
AGage


Users avatar

Posts
411
Registered at
2008-12-27 10:31:57
2011-07-02 19:21:24 - Client Update (3Jul)
There has been a new client released. You will need to clear your browser cache to see it. Among the things listed below it is far smaller to download now, saving some data.

Some new features in the client:

Boat List:
You can now create 1 or more custom boat list. Below the boat list you will see a button marked for creating a new list. Clicking this brings up a window allowing you to provide a name for the list (required) and select the boats to be included in it. Click the boat in the list and click Add. The list of chosen boats appears on the right. NOTE: You can multi-select form this boat list, using ctrl or shift, and of course the search function works as usual.
Once you have your list (and you can change it after) click Done, and a new list appears along with the Main Fleet list. You switch between by clicking the header for the list.
A few other things you can do with these lists:
1) Multi select boats in them to see more than 1 boat track at a time
2) Click 'Show Only these boats' to hide all other boats in the fleet not on the list.
The Edit button brings up the same window as used to create a new one. You can modify the name of the list or the boats in it. You can make more than 1 list.

Also, in multi-class races like the TallShips or IMSYC there will be an extra column in the boat list displaying the class of each boat. You can sort on this column just the same as name.

The columns in the boat lists can be dragged to re-order them, and resized by dragging the column header borders.

Also note that currently the lists do not save between sessions.

Weather Slider:
The slider now displays a little more info, and has 2 new features.
It displays the amount of time left to the end of the forecast containied in the last update.
You can also now:
1) Switch between the slider covering the full forecast period at 10 minute steps, or only the next 24 hours stepping smaller for a finer look. To do this Alt-Click the slider or the text label below the slider.
2) Animate the weather! Shift-Click the same places as in 1) and the weather with begin playing as an animation. Shift-Click to stop.
Note you can combine 1 and 2, in that the anmation as just like automatic movement of the slider.

Also, you can turn off the weather notification sound effect , there is a checkbox on the Help tab (?)

Instrument Dashboard:
Can display Lat/Lon - Alt-Click anywhere in it to toggle the display on and off

MarkBoats:
Dont leave tracks and look like buoys
I help develop the client interface for the best online ocean racing sim there is... __/)/)_/)__
Posted by
A2


Users avatar

Posts
347
Registered at
2009-10-26 00:39:42
2011-07-03 03:18:38 - Re: Client Update (3Jul)
This feature set (multi-trax) is much appreciated and my gratitude for all your endeavors to make SOL such an awesome experience

P.S.

DTG = 8^)

--- Last Edited by 8mR Who at 2011-07-03 07:18:58 ---
None so blind
Posted by
JuJu


Users avatar

Posts
24
Registered at
2008-12-24 09:50:12
2011-07-03 08:14:44 - Re: Client Update (3Jul)
Great, thanks so much
Posted by
StuArt


Users avatar

Posts
118
Registered at
2008-11-15 22:03:54
2011-07-03 11:23:47 - Re: Client Update (3Jul)
excellent improvements - many thanks to the machine room
Posted by
AGage


Users avatar

Posts
411
Registered at
2008-12-27 10:31:57
2011-07-19 13:37:48 - Another Update (19July)
There has been another client update - mostly a few minor fixes, but browser caches will need to be cleared for it to download...
I help develop the client interface for the best online ocean racing sim there is... __/)/)_/)__
Posted by
Hawk54


Users avatar

Posts
40
Registered at
2011-06-06 14:54:03
2011-08-03 14:20:33 - Re: Client Update (3Jul)
Really an improvement !

1 thing is not good: After creating a boatlist - it is not saved for next session (as you have mentioned above). IF new boatlists could be saved, I shall rest my voice :-) (for a while)....
Posted by
K3 (Bernd)


Users avatar

Posts
130
Registered at
2008-08-25 12:34:07
2011-09-02 07:30:01 - Re: Client Update (3Jul)
Just found the sound effect checkbox. I should have read AGage's notice much earlier!
Wonderful silence now…

ciao
Bernd
Posted by
AGage


Users avatar

Posts
411
Registered at
2008-12-27 10:31:57
2011-09-03 10:30:37 - Re: Client Update (3Jul)
Saving of option(s) like wx sound, and any boat lists you may have created, is in the works...
Custom boat lists will be shared between races though...
I help develop the client interface for the best online ocean racing sim there is... __/)/)_/)__
Posted by
Hasseballad


Users avatar

Posts
17
Registered at
2008-11-15 11:51:32
2011-10-09 10:22:36 - Re: Can't run any race
Hello,
I did as you mentioned, cleared my browsers cache, but I still can't run a race. I come as far as "waiting for weather download" but no further. Any other proposals what to do?
Rgds/Hasseballad
Posted by
Pierre


Users avatar

Posts
66
Registered at
2009-06-27 15:48:03
2011-11-22 14:45:22 - Re: Client Update (3Jul)
I have a request for xmas that one +6h and one -6h button be added beside the weather slider.
I'd like to be able to quickstep forward while looking at the weather on the map. So easy to lose track of the shown time offset now.
Cheers!

Page: 1 2 Next

Please login to post a reply.

Races

Next Race: 00d 00h 00m

Current Races:

Raja Muda Selangor 2025 - Pangkor to Penang

Welcome back on board your J-109 for our second online offshore race in cooperation with the Raja Muda Selangor International organisation – an 80nm trip from Pangkor north up the Malacca Strait to Penang.
Race #1962
INFO by brainaid.de
J-109 PARTICULARS
WX Updates:
0430 / 1030 / 1630 / 2230
Ranking: RMS - SYC
Race starts: Nov 17th 04:00 Registration Open!

▶ Flash
GO TO RACE

Raja Muda Selangor 2025 - Port Klang to Pangkor

Sailonline is delighted to be able to offer online sailors an opportunity to once again compete in all three of the offshore races of the Raja Muda Selangor International race week, organised by the Royal Selangor Yacht Club in association with the RORC, and commencing with a 75nm trip from Port Klang to Pangkor. This year we will be racing this race, and the other two, which together will count towards our Sailonline Raja Muda Series (RMS), in J-109s.
Race #1961
INFO by brainaid.de
J-109 PARTICULARS
WX Updates:
0430 / 1030 / 1630 / 2230
Ranking: RMS - SYC
Race starts: Nov 15th 04:00 Registration Open!

▶ Flash
GO TO RACE

Africa by Sea 2025 - Suez to Port Said


When Napoleon (briefly) occupied Egypt at the turn to the 19th C, he ordered his expedition’s Directeur des Ponts et Chaussées, Jacques-Marie Le Père, to evaluate the ancient, derelict, infilled course of a Ptolemaic canal connecting the Red Sea to the Nile via the Great Bitter Lake, versus a new canal to the Mediterranean directly. Neither were considered feasible – locks to climb a pauvre-surveyed 10m sea-level difference, or continuous dredging of the Nile, would both be equally financially prohibitive. Fifty years passed before the unlikeliness of Le Père’s survey finding was challenged and a French Compagnie Universelle du Canal Maritime de Suez obtained a 99-year concession from the Khedive of Egypt, Said Pasha, to construct and operate a canal from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean, much against the will of the Ottoman Sultan, Abdulmecid I (the Pasha’s nominal overlord), and the wishes of the (Irish) British prime minister, Lord Palmerston. The year was 1859, the very number of this race (planning, dear boy, planning!), which, despite the canal’s double-super-tanker gauge and lack of locks, is strictly prohibited to sailors IRL. But not SOLers! 85nm in Fareast 28Rs to complete your circumnavigation of Africa!
Race #1859
INFOby brainaid.de
Fareast 28R PARTICULARS
WX Updates:
0430 / 1030 / 1630 / 2230
Ranking: SYC - ABS
RACE CLOSE: Tuesday,
November 18 at 2300 UTC.
Race starts: Nov 12th 17:00 Registration Open!
▶ Flash
GO TO RACE

Round Hong Kong TIMED Race 2025

This month’s TIMED race takes us to the hectic, bustling sea lanes of the South China Sea for a 118 nm race beginning and ending in Hong Kong rounding several of the 260 nearby islands along the way. The boat for this race is the South African built Cape 31. This is a TIMEDrace so you may RE-REGISTER HEREto try again after finishing a run. You will have 13 days and 11 hours to test your skill and decision making after the race opens.
Race #1964
INFOby brainaid.de
Cape 31 Particulars
WX Updates:
0430 / 1030 / 1630 / 2230
Ranking:
TRQ4 - TRCH - SUPSOL - SYC
RACE CLOSE: Saturday,
22 November at 23:00 UTC
Race starts: Nov 09th 12:00 Registration Open!
▶ Flash
GO TO RACE

Fernando de Noronha to Faroe 2025

The RWW Series concludes with a spectacular journey from Fernando de Noronha to the Faroe Islands, a legendary destination in the wild North Atlantic. Panning 4,100 nautical miles, this leg will be a true test of endurance, strategy, and sheer determination. Also the penultimate leg of the 2025 Ocean Championship, it’s your chance to prove your mettle against the sea, the wind, and yourself. We’ll be racing aboard the Ragamuffin 100, a vessel built for speed and challenge — demanding planning, precision and grit from every sailor on deck. Do you have what it takes to master the Northern Atlantic?.
PRIZE: SMPF
Race #1960
INFO by brainaid.de
Ragamuffin 100 PARTICULARS
WX Updates:
0430 / 1030 / 1630 / 2230
Ranking: RWW - OCQ4 - OCCH - SUPSOL - SYC
RACE CLOSE: Monday,
November 24 at 2300 UTC.
Race starts: Nov 03rd 11:00 Registration Closed
▶ Flash
GO TO RACE

Sinbad by Balloon 2025 - Carnarvon to Dondra


From here, our home in Bharatavarṣa is now north west of us – said Sinbad to his fellow balloonists. Perhaps we can ride the wind first further north, and then catch the winds that every year bring the rain, perhaps not. It’s 2600nm and we could be aloft awhile, so, Master el-Quarters, victuals only, no sandbags, provisioning the giant hamper. It will be not a picnic!
Race #1886
INFOby brainaid.de
SOL Balloon PARTICULARS
WX Updates:
0430 / 1030 / 1630 / 2230
Ranking: SYC - SBB
Race starts: Oct 15th 11:00 Registration Closed
▶ Flash
GO TO RACE

Go to race archive

SYC Ranking

  1. Sailonline Yacht Club Member KaSToR
  2. Sailonline Yacht Club Member CriticalHippo
  3. Sailonline Yacht Club Member WRmirekd
  4. Sailonline Yacht Club Member vida
  5. Sailonline Yacht Club Member rafa
  6. Sailonline Yacht Club Member CollegeFund
  7. Sailonline Yacht Club Member Panpyc
  8. Sailonline Yacht Club Member brellis
  9. Sailonline Yacht Club Member BRENTGRAY
  10. Sailonline Yacht Club Member Sax747

View full list

Series

Mobile Client

SYC members have the benefit of access to our mobile/lightweight web client!

The mobile client