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Fecn is offline Fecn
2010-05-14 , 18:02
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#61
I took the latest version out for a spin this afternoon. After I'd found the clue to the cache location I tried out the AGTL coord calculator. I noticed that where people have 'x' as the multiply symbol then the calculator expects it as a numerical value.

I added the following at line 172 of coordfinder.py (in the find function) to replace all lower case 'x' with '*' instead

text = text.replace('x', '*')

It fixes the problem nicely but there may be a more elegant solution.

Webhamster - Thanks again for the ever improving app
 
webhamster is offline webhamster
2010-05-15 , 08:41
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#62
Originally Posted by Fecn View Post
I took the latest version out for a spin this afternoon. After I'd found the clue to the cache location I tried out the AGTL coord calculator. I noticed that where people have 'x' as the multiply symbol then the calculator expects it as a numerical value.

I added the following at line 172 of coordfinder.py (in the find function) to replace all lower case 'x' with '*' instead

text = text.replace('x', '*')

It fixes the problem nicely but there may be a more elegant solution.

Webhamster - Thanks again for the ever improving app
Hi!

I do not recommend this fix, as it works only as long as you don't have a cache where x is used as a variable.

I consider a feature where you can enter/edit coord. calculations manually...
 
Fecn is offline Fecn
2010-05-15 , 09:01
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#63
Originally Posted by webhamster View Post
Hi!

I do not recommend this fix, as it works only as long as you don't have a cache where x is used as a variable.

I consider a feature where you can enter/edit coord. calculations manually...
I will admit it was a quick and dirty fix All the caches in my area seem to have their maths starting from the other end of the alphabet and they have always been using capitals. I am new to all this geocaching stuff though so don't know what the standards are for the calculations. I figured that swapping the lower case x was a reasonable default behaavior.

How about having it so that you can enter an '*' into the 'x' field in the coord calculator if it appers in a calculation to indicate that it's a multiply symbol rather than a numeric - it was what I treid to do when I discovered the problem so it's probably not a bad default behavior.
 
webhamster is offline webhamster
2010-05-15 , 09:45
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#64
That sounds like good and simple idea. I will check all the options for the next release.

Meanwhile, I added some minor bug fixes (e.g. scrolling in options) and completed support for portrait mode.

If you know GIT and feel adventurous, check out the latest development version from http://github.com/webhamster/advancedcaching. Be sure not to overwrite your existing AGTL installation, as the devel version is inherently unstable. Of course, don't go geocaching without the latest official release installed. Report any bugs here with the commit-ID.
Last edited by webhamster; 2010-05-15 at 09:51.
 
webhamster is offline webhamster
2010-05-17 , 18:40
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#65
Version 0.6.1.2 was just released, containing two bug fixes:
* Scrolling in options
* Downloading waypoints
 

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webhamster is offline webhamster
2010-05-19 , 15:20
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#66
Addition: Blog post for Version 0.6.1.2.
 
webhamster is offline webhamster
2010-05-28 , 17:41
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#67
Version 0.6.1.2 is now in Extras repository!
 

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Lantti is offline Lantti
2010-06-01 , 08:21
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#68
Thanks for this great application!

One minor improvement proposal to sun compass.
Compass is moving / turning very quickly when standing still. It would be great if sun compass could be paused when not moving. That would make it easier to turn compass in line with sun...
 
webhamster is offline webhamster
2010-06-02 , 08:27
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#69
Originally Posted by Lantti View Post
Thanks for this great application!

One minor improvement proposal to sun compass.
Compass is moving / turning very quickly when standing still. It would be great if sun compass could be paused when not moving. That would make it easier to turn compass in line with sun...
I had this implemented already but removed it again, because it made problems in rare cases. I will try it again with the better GPS accuracy of the PR 1.2 firmware.
 
tobru is offline tobru
2010-06-04 , 08:14
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#70
Hi,

Thanks for this great tool. I used it to find over 50 geocaches until now and I think it's even better than the official iPhone App from Groundspeak!

Since two or three days I can't download the cache details anymore, I always get the error "could not parse cache page". It looks like Groundspeak added a banner above the logs, perhaps this is a problem for AGTL to parse the cache page...

Beside this bug, I have a couple of feature requests so that the application gets even better:
  • Displaying the cache attributes in the detail view. I had to solve a mystery cache where the attributes were needed.
  • Download more logs, perhaps a configurable value or a "download more" button
  • Add a name to manually added waypoints
  • Multi-Line for waypoint description in the "coords" tab
  • Do not display the hint in plaintext. Add a button beside the hint: "Show cleartext"
These are my suggestions. And again: Thanks a lot for this great tool!

Best Regards,
Tobias
 
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