Timing app

Overview & Main Window

What Timing does, and how the main window is laid out while an event is running.

What Timing does

Timing is the app that actually scores the event. It receives times from the timing hardware (or accepts manual/keyboard-entered times), tracks which car is staged, on course, or finished, applies penalties, and stores every run in the event database. LiveTiming and Announcer both read from whatever computer is running Timing — it's the single source of truth for the day.

Main window layout

Once an event is open, the main window has:

• Course and Run Group selectors near the top — which course and which heat is currently running.
• Stage Car box — type or scan a car number here to stage the next driver. You can start typing a number or letter anywhere in the window and it jumps to this box automatically.
• A live timer readout showing the current running time and car number once a timer is connected, or “No Timer” / “Timer Closed” when it isn't.
• The run list — a grid of every car staged, on course, or recently finished in the current run group, with columns for Num, Class, Status, Split1, Split2, Penalty, # Runs, Driver Name, and Car Desc.

The menu bar, at a glance

Menu	What's in it
File	Open a different event; import an event (MSR/Pronto); export the run order grid or event data; open season results.
Edit	Edit Event settings, Classes, Drivers, Run Groups, and the Audit Grid View.
Scanner	Set up a USB barcode/QR scanner, or reset it.
(unlabeled tools group)	Setup COM (serial timer), Reset Event, Preferences.
Timer	Open/close the connected timer, swap Start/Finish, show a separate Finish Times window.
Help	Register…, About…, Shortcuts.