by Gavin » Wed Sep 16, 2015 9:54 pm
Hi Steve,
Yes, I know about that, but thanks for creating a forum topic about it. When I designed the autopilot many years ago, I had to make a safety feature to stop it endlessly trying to find the next race when it reached your last chosen race of the day. I therefore chose to design it such that it would not try find another race if the current race was closed (I know, slightly crude but it works well at the end of the autopilot selections). Unfortunately that meant that it could get stuck mid-way through a day, if a race meeting is cancelled during the day, which does happen sometimes unfortunately.
It is actually rather more tricky than it might seem, to re-code that quirk and to overcome the 'closed' races issue mid-way through the day, whilst still ensuring that the autopilot stops gracefully after the last race of the day. However I will attack this issue again at some point. In the meantime it means that you just have to manually untick any races within the autopilot list, if those races get abandoned for example due to bad weather.
Kind regards,
Gavin