Advertising
Between two races, the scoreboard can show your sponsors and your announcements: images, videos, formatted texts and web pages, in a loop, full screen, each for its own time. They hide as soon as timing data arrives.
The list
A single list, always the same, set in the control panel (ADVERTISING section). Each item:
- The box
- Unticked: the item is skipped.
- The kind
- Image, Video, Text or Web page.
- The duration (s)
- How long it stays on the screen (10 s by default; 30 s for a video).
- ▲ ▼
- Earlier or later in the loop.
- ✕
- Remove the item from the list (the file stays in the folder).
- The file or the address
- A file from the ads folder (kept by its name) or from elsewhere (kept by its full path); to choose it. For a web page, the address (http or https).
The Image, Text, Video and Web page buttons add an item at the end. Any change restarts the loop from the first item.
| Kind | What is shown |
|---|---|
| Image | An image file (png, jpg, bmp, gif, tif), at screen size without distortion, on a black background. |
| Video | A video file from disk (mp4, wmv, avi, mov, mkv, webm), without sound, looping for its duration. |
| Text | A formatted text (RTF file in the ads folder), written with the built-in editor. |
| Web page | A page (online results, social media…), through the Windows Edge engine (WebView2). It is a separate window: it makes room for the panel as long as the panel is docked in the scoreboard. |
When the advertising plays
- automatically, after “Advertising after” minutes with nothing to show (30 by default; 0: never), or after one round of the overall standings (“Then the advertising”);
- on demand, with the panel's Advertising button (until the Automatic button).
It hides as soon as timing data arrives (a race loaded, a start). An item with no source or not found is skipped and reported in the log (“Ad not found: …”). The display delay does not delay it.
The text of an ad
Where: Text (a new file “texte-AAAAMMJJ-HHMMSS.rtf”), or Edit… on a Text item
The text is laid out on a 1920 × 1080 page, white text on a black background, centred, in large type (72 pixels): what you see is what will be on the screen. The toolbar: G — Bold (Ctrl+B), I — Italic (Ctrl+I), S — Underline (Ctrl+U), Larger, Smaller, Left, Centred, Right, and six colours for the selected text. Save writes the RTF file into the ads folder.