TrekBuddy

billy06 · Joined: 01 Oct 2008 Posts: 408 Location: Lowestoft U.K

i use "add custom " too so this would be fine

tomten · Joined: 28 Nov 2007 Posts: 33

Hi Kruch

kruch · Site Admin Joined: 02 Jul 2006 Posts: 5085

I hope tomorrow; I've got "adding new wpt to arbitrary file" feature almost finished, and then just another map loading problem to fix...

haraldh · Joined: 06 Aug 2009 Posts: 47 Location: Helsinki, Finland

I have problems with the renderer on my N97 and 0.9.88 (tried the 2009-08-24 beta as well, both with safe rendering and not). When panning I get artifacts (shadowing) of the previous tile over the neighbour. In my opinion the rendering worked better in 0.9.87 (which I'm now using).

This with tarred atlas, 400x400 pix tiles.

kruch · Site Admin Joined: 02 Jul 2006 Posts: 5085

First release candidate for 0989 is here http://www.trekbuddy.net/beta/2009-08-27/index.php. Changes - add/record wpt & target gpx selection reworked, rendering "egine" changed again a bit, android version UI improved (navigation arrows fixed, using native widgets, finger clickable lists etc).

billy06 · Joined: 01 Oct 2008 Posts: 408 Location: Lowestoft U.K

WELL DONE very happy with this version, all maps load ok, scrolling is good, adding wpt to existing gpx now preserve all fields, adding wpt to a new file is simple. just one small bug (add wpt to new file) first wpt created all ok if you add a second / third etc 2 wpts are written to the file for each

pavelh · Joined: 26 Oct 2008 Posts: 148

I'm testing the release candidate. It fixes the bug when Cancel button was missing on Sony Ericsson phones. But I'm not very happy with the way how it is done. Instead of Cancel button there is Exit button! So right soft key doesn't close the menu bar. Instead of it it asks if I want to close TrekBuddy. The risk that I close it accidentally is quite high. If I choose not to close TB, the menu bar disappears correctly.

haraldh · Joined: 06 Aug 2009 Posts: 47 Location: Helsinki, Finland

RC 0.9.89

Rendering when panning looks great now! I also don't get a Java exception error when switching to a layer that contains maps too small.

However, I got a Java IO-error, something about GPS sharing when starting TrekBuddy. This on a N97 with the nokia betalabs JRE 2. I exited and started again and no error this time. Haven't got this error before, it could've just been a fluke.

I (typical?!) received a phonecall when trying to record a track outside. Then, when trying to exit TrekBuddy I got stuck in "do you want to exit [yes|no]" with no other way out than rebooting the phone. I tried a few more times, with no problem exiting. I can live with a crash if receiving calls, no problem. It could have been a fluke as well, never reappering.

The timestamps in the GPX trackfile looks ok, but for some reason one app that I'm using (GPS Action Replay) doesn't like thousands of a second in the timestamp.

Jakob · Joined: 18 Apr 2007 Posts: 109 Location: Germany / Munich

shen · Joined: 15 Oct 2008 Posts: 324 Location: DE

kruch · Site Admin Joined: 02 Jul 2006 Posts: 5085

@shen I uploaded bb version; it is with the "duplicated-wpt" bug, though...

pavelh · Joined: 26 Oct 2008 Posts: 148

I did some more testing. Sorting by distance works perfectly and adding waypoint to the selected file is great, too. I've found some more bugs. Some of them were in previous versions, too.

- "Show all waypoints" works for the first time, but when I want to show waypoints from another file, this function is hidden in the menu. The only way is to close TB and start it again. If it is not possible for simplicity to show waypoints from different files, this items should be always in the menu and should cause hiding waypoints from the first file and showing waypoints from the second one.

- In the dialog when user can select name of the GPX file, it is not necessary to show the extension .gpx. There is a danger, that user would accidentally modify it and will not be able to open the file in TB. The extension should be added automatically by TB.

- List of GPX files is not ordered alphabetically. This makes it a bit more difficult to search the file.

- And there is the bug which I've mentioned in the previous post. Cancel button is replaced by Exit button on Sony Ericsson phones. This is very unpleasant bug.

kruch · Site Admin Joined: 02 Jul 2006 Posts: 5085

@haraldh right, I guess fractional part is too "scientific", despite conforming to the spec, and despite the fact some GPS can give you fix more frequently than 1 Hz; I'll remove it
Also will look into Exit issue, other phones are somewhat affected too (pavelh reported)

kruch · Site Admin Joined: 02 Jul 2006 Posts: 5085

@pavelh

- you should not need to restart TB, how about HideAll? I'll try to make ShowAll available when it is "safe" (hard to explain, it is internal TB limitation)

- good point

- it is, almost, except that last used file is first, but perhaps it only should be when adding new wpt

- Exit/Cancel - I will fix it

shen · Joined: 15 Oct 2008 Posts: 324 Location: DE