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Originally Posted by Laughing Man View Post
This might be a silly question but I couldn't find it in the menu or on screen menu. Is there a way to see all the directions at once? When I'm the navigator my fiancee often wants me to tell her the next two or three steps which I can't seem to do with Modrana.
Its not there yet, but definitely looks like possible & usable feature -> I have opened a new feature request ticket for this.

Originally Posted by jj0 View Post
The batch download might be buggy. I've been trying to download a 40km area in this webcafe for ages, can't get it done.

The log shows it's going fine for a while:

Batch tile dl working... (threads: 7) pending: 86618, done: 3608
...

Then

exception in get tiles thread:
database is locked
....

a number of times. Then the download seems to go on, but much much faster, super fast, which is impossible, and of course the tiles are not downloaded...
Originally Posted by jj0 View Post
There is a problem with batch download in the latest version, when I do download around view, it starts downloading fine.

After a couple of seconds:

exception in get tiles thread:
unable to open database file

hundreds of lines of these...
Originally Posted by taxaza View Post
I also have problems with batch download. I use the sqlite tile storage option. When I download big areas after a while I cannot bring the n900 out of the blank screen. It doesn't seem the phone completely hangs since the indication led is blinking normally and even turns blue when I receive new mails. Unfortunately though the only way to get the n900 back to normal is to remove the batery and reinsert it.
OK, I'll investigate this. But I suspect this behaviour might be at least partially caused by a OS level flaw, that causes the partition where MyDocs reside to become read-only (this can only be fixed by rebooting the device or by activating and deactivating the mass-storage mode).
I can't really do much about this.

Other factor contributing to could be the old, quirky, non-thread-safe sqlite database version, that is shipped with Python 2.5 on Maemo. Well, I can try to do something about this - assure only one thread accesses the database at a time, try to restart the database connection on fatal errors, etc.

Originally Posted by woody14619 View Post
Found a tiny little bug. :P If you turn off the "auto-vanish menu" option, so it never goes away.... it actually never shows a menu at all. And you're locked out of the system to make changes. (You have to remove the options file to get menus back.) Opps.
Thanks for reporting this ! Should be fixed in V0.20-1.

Originally Posted by Wikiwide View Post
That's strange, but after the latest update I see no buttons, no menu.
Here is log from X Terminal.
I don't see anything anomalous in the log, but it looks quite similar to the flaw Woody reported.

Originally Posted by smolkop View Post
i suggest new functionality righ from map view, long tap on the map should activate popup menu for adding POI or setting route to selected point from current position. make map interactive
Well, you have to be careful with this A feature like this was infuriating when I was using TangoGPS on the Neo FreeRunner. Neo is not the fastest phone under the sun and it quite often interpreted dragging the map as a long click - which launched a popup menu, like the one you describe. It was annoying as hell

Of course, provided the tap is set long enough to not interfere with other input, this might become quite a nice feature

BTW, there are quite a lot gestures/buttons/sensors/states that could be used to trigger different modRana actions:
  • holding the escape arrow (go directly to the map screen ?)
  • double tapping the map
  • volume rocker button (zoom, prev/next turn, etc ?)
  • slider open/closed
  • proximity sensor double/long/tap
  • light sensor
  • shutter button
  • lens cover
  • charging on/off
  • screen on/off (don't redraw while screen is off)
  • internet connection state
  • headphones dis/connected
  • various keyboard shortcuts
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