Relay Tracker is an AutoIt3 application I created in my senior year of high school. It was made for one specific purpose: To computerize the manual data entry involved in running the school’s annual 24-Hour Relay Challenge (a community fund-raising event that is pretty much what it sounds like). By all accounts, it was a smashing success.


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Relay Tracker uses a flexible client/server model that can accomodate multiple runner check-in stations, all synchronized to a central mileage database. It also has an "external display" feature that uses a secondary monitor hooked up to any check-in station to display a live "scoreboard", with team rankings easily readable from a distance.

Auto-What?

AutoIt3 is a general-purpose Windows scripting language focused on automation and ease of deployment. While its simplistic design has a few annoying limitations, its sheer ease of use and ability to create whiz-bang GUI apps with minimal effort made it a good learning language for me.

Downloads?

Currently, there are none. I don't wish to broadly distribute the Relay Tracker code; if I did, it would only serve as an example of how not to write applications in AutoIt. The architecture is rather convoluted and difficult to maintain, though I'm sure it made perfect sense to my high-school self years ago.

At any rate, if you're really interested in getting a copy of Relay Tracker, contact me and I'll see what I can do for you.