yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] auban:
Sort by date small error

Hi I discovered that when I sort my list by Date (Sorty By -> Cache -> Date) the most recent ones don't end up at the bottom of the list. There seems to be a simple problem when the day number is only one number, 1-9.

I have 60 caches in my list and when I sort by this way I get a cache list that looks like this at the bottom.

.

.

6/27/2009

6/28/2009

6/28/2009

6/29/2009

6/5/2009

7/10/2009

.

.

.

7/21/2009

7/23/2009

7/23/2009

7/24/2009

7/6/2009

I use version 0.2.34.10 but I think the error has been there before.

(At first this was a little confusing for me because here in Sweden we use Day/Month/Year :) then I realized it must be wrong).
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] boeykenk:
Hello Tom,

recently I requested an extra feature: exporting coordinates/waypoints to gdb-format. I've sent a link to the gdb-format. Perhaps I can explain why this would be useful for me.

If I go geocaching, I start downloading several caches at home using your incredible GCz-tool. I read all info about a certain cache and then start walking to the first waypoint/cache location using topo maps of the neighbourhood. For displaying the topo maps on my device, I use GisRussa (http://sim77.ws/en). I need to copy the coordinates from GCz to GisRussa. And because GisRussa can only import *.wpt, *.gdb and *.mps format, I have to write down (or remember) the coordinates and enter them into the tool.

For this reason, exporting to one of these fromats would be a great feature for me. I don't know if the link to the gdb-format was a great help for you and if you want to put some effort in this? If yes, I would be soooo happy :D . If no, I still think GCz is one of the best tools for geocaching ;).

P.S.: The suggestion of using MapSource to convert gpx to gdb was a great idea that I can use at home. But there is no equivalent running under WM5 for converting on the road.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] kadango:
so,

i just tested the new gpx-export but the exported gpx is no more recognized by my garmin oregon.

daniel
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Gech:
kadango

I don't have garmin.

If you find the reason, please let me know.

thanks

tom
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Boyo:
So i'm not real sure what has changed alot recently, but I think I remember seeing where something was done to GPS Monitor when you are moving slow or stopped. Well, we went out yesterday and this seemed to be an incredible nuisance. We would get close to the cache and then it would stop updating, we would walk 50 feet one way and the number would never change until we started walking fast. I ended up using google maps for the good majority of the day yesterday because it seemed next to impossible to use gps monitor to get an accurate read.

Also, unrelated to gps monitor, I started to freak a little yesterday when GCz reported that my user/pass were incorrect. I soon determined that it was actually GC.com was down. Any way of distinguishing between the two?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ciberyan:
AT firts thanks for your effort on this great soft I just discover

I would like to know where are store all the information ?

On sdcard ? as I have leak of Ram in my storage area on the PPC ...

I hope we can change the location for the data of the program (which is on the sdcard itself)

Thnanks in advance
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] kadango:
Hi,

The Garmin Oregon only accepts gpx that confirm 100% with gpx from geocaching.com.

I am not really used to xml, so i post here 2 files. One generated by gczII and one is a official Pocketquery from Groundspeak aka geocaching.com

I put them together in one zip-file.

I hope the experts here can analyze and tell what ist wrong.

Thanks a lot

Daniel
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hakan42:
Interestingly, in the descriptions that contain HTML, the "arrows" are encoded:

groundspeak.gpx

<groundspeak:long_description html="True"><div align="center"><font size="5" face="Tahoma">Klein und
...
...
...
suchen!</font></strong></div></groundspeak:long_description>

whereas gczII uses normal arrows:

gczii.gpx

<groundspeak:long_description html="True"><p><strong><font size="4" face="Verdana"><a target="_blank"
href="http://www.geocaching.com/about/cache_types.aspx"><a name='GCz_IMAGE-3vf3e.gif'></a><a href='GCz_IMAGE-http://www7.file-upload.net/04.11.07/3vf3e.gif'><img width="32"
...
...
...
<p>
</groundspeak:long_description>

Tom seems to simply write the HTML from the description into the created GPX file. I can easily imagine that malformed HTML that "looks" correct in the web browser would lead to broken, nonparsable XML.

In fact, I just used xmllint on both GPX files, the groundspeak one passes the tests, and the gczii one throws quite a lot of parser errors.

So, maybe the solution would be to simply convert all "<" to "<" and the ">" to ">" while writing the descriptions to the GPX file?

Regards,

Hakan
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] kadango:
Hi Hakan

is it too much work for you to do this with the gpx from GCzII

and upload it here so i can test it in the next hours????

Thanks a lot

Daniel
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hakan42:
Here you go :)

The GPX file contains only one Cache ( the first one ) and two logs in that cache, I removed all others to keep the example a simple one.

Additionally to the "<" and ">", I had to fix the "&" in the URL in the HTML description, changing it to "&".

At least, xmllint is happy with the GPX, but I can't test it on my Oregon, it is in my car.

Regards,

Hakan
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] kadango:
thanks hakan,

now everything is fine with that gpx.

Description and Logs are there... i think hint would also work if there was one in this cache. :)

Regards.

Daniel
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] shaggyguitarist:
Thanks Tom for the fact that the red arrow now keeps pointing toward the cache if I stop moving once I'm close. I too have the same problem of the GPS starting again as I start walking again. On most caches I will keep walking in a straight line towards the cache if I can, but sometimes its more practicle to walk until Im parallel with it, then turn and walk in the direction of the cache until the distance reaches zero.

The problem is that once I stop it takes a lot of walking to get a GPS fix again. Is this fixable or a limitation of the inbuilt GPS.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Gech:
for Chechoslovak.

Try this if encounter login issue with Czech login ID.

(But I have not tested it.)

http://1942.rocketspace.net/PQzII/GCzII_20090730_0930_0234_10_Czech.zip

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GPX export

I will fix the issue to change from "<" and ">" to "<" and ">".

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shaggyguitarist

>> The problem is that once I stop it takes a lot of walking to get a GPS fix again. Is this fixable or a limitation of the inbuilt GPS.

That is a hardware limitation (I think). because GCz reads the GPS data real time.

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I'm going out hunting to test GCz now. ;D

See ya.

thanks

tom
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] kadango:
I am really looking forward to the next version

Regards,

Daniel
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] martinhe:
Hi Tom,

thanks for trying with the "Chechoslovak" version, but it is not functional.

Program don´t know login me:(

Thans for this version and your time. I hope,that this is not the last version;)

Martin
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Wazowski68:
Hi Tom,

Congrat for your awesome software.

Just a link for you, if you are interested:

http://developer.windowsmobile.com/
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hakan42:
Hi Tom,

Please don't forget "&" to "&", I found that one in a URL ( I think it was pointing to geochecker.com ) in the description of a cache.

Perhaps there is a generic HTML escaping function in the Windows libraries to you don't have to code this on your own? Sadly I don't know too much about Windows development, so I don't have a pointer for you...

Regards,

Hakan
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ciberyan:
Hello all

I would like to come back, for beginners like me, on the structure of the folders used by GCz

Is there any description somewhere ?

I have set the download folders to a directory on my SDcard and thats works

My problem :

After having downloaded data for caches I have 4 directories in \Windows\Profiles\guest\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\ full of jpg and gif files, around 24Mo !

Can I securely delete them ? are they duplicate in my cache_DB ?

Any help is welcome as I have not so much ram free ...

Thans in advance
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Gech:
Hi martinhe

I found a bug and I think fix it.

Please try again this.

http://1942.rocketspace.net/PQzII/GCzII_20090730_1800_0234_10_Czech.zip

Please let me know.

thanks

tom

by the way, how many special charactors for "Chechoslovak"?

----------------------

Á Á U+00C1 C381 193 / C1

É É U+00C9 C389 201 / C9

Í Í U+00CD C38D 205 / CD

Ý Ý U+00DD C39D 221 / DD

Ó Ó U+00D3 C393 211 / D3

Ú Ú U+00DA C39A 218 / DA

Ů Ů U+016E C5AE 217 / D9

Č Č U+010C C48C 200 / C8

Ď Ď U+010E C48E 207 / CF

Ě Ě U+011A C49A 204 / CC

Ň Ň U+0147 C587 210 / D2

Ř Ř U+0158 C598 216 / D8

Š Š U+0160 C5A0 169 / A9

Ť Ť U+0164 C5A4 171 / AB

Ž Ž U+017D C5BD 174 / AE

á á U+00E1 C3A1 225 / E1

é é U+00E9 C3A9 233 / E9

í í U+00ED C3AD 237 / ED

ý ý U+00FD C3BD 253 / FD

ó ó U+00F3 C3B3 243 / F3

ú ú U+00FA C3BA 250 / FA

ů ů U+016F C5AF 249 / F9

č č U+010D C48D 232 / E8

ď ď U+010F C48F 239 / EF

ě ě U+011B C49B 236 / EC

ň ň U+0148 C588 242 / F2

ř ř U+0159 C599 248 / F8

š š U+0161 C5A1 185 / B9

ť ť U+0165 C5A5 187 / BB

ž ž U+017E C5BE 190 / BE

----------------------

else?

Some of them seem same as German.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] paulpille:
May be this helps:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=4027070&postcount=1096
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bmielke:
Maybe is the mistake in the GCzII.gpx was found... only one thing in addition. I use the ppc-program pathaway. When i import the groundspeak-version is everthing allright (22 caches), but when i import the file gxzii.gpx pathway says: NOT well-formed at line 67 then it finished the import-process... (0 caches imported).

thanks for your great program

bmielke
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ciberyan:
Yes it does a little bit.

I seems to have enough ram to finish caches dowload but, last question is :

Can we clear the temp folder of all this JPG at the end of the download process ?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] martinhe:
Great job Tom, thanks.

What about next application development? Will there be SK and ENG version, or just one version? I just tried login to GC.com, and didn't test whole program. I assume it's not needed to test whole program, because program structure is the same, only login process changed. Great work. Thank you for your time.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] paulpille:
I think you can clear it ... but no guarantee ;-) the worst that can happen is that you have to download the caches again ...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Titus_Andronicus:
A little more detail. I loaded that GPX file that I had posted here a while back. Then saved it as a cache list. When I open a cache from the list, then select description, there are no Static Maps.

Is there something that I can add to the files that will make the Static Maps work?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hakan42:
Try selecting the cache and "Reload Cache" (first menu point). This should reload all the images. The images are not contained in the GPX file :-)

Regards,

Hakan
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] freekquency:
Hey Tom

and the rest of you crazy geocachers!

I noticed couchpotato mentioned how slow winmo can become with folder structure etc. And there is one thing i've been thinking might help (especially with the folks using GCzII in offline mode) --

Some sort of STOP button on the UI, which just stops the current command from trying to run. Ive encountered several instances where (either in offline) i accidentally try to download something, I need to wait until it times out and gives an error message. Or if you were importing a large GPX file and you picked the wrong one it takes the fuze (running nothing except GCzII) a good minute usually to load 500 caches.

Also when you encounter a bug, and it freeks out you maybe able to save it instead of having to reboot.

thanks again man

Im going to download the new version now, everything has been working great.... . I too had the bug when going to cache>montior>back to list but havent been able to replicate it yet.

(

shameless self plug

any of you cachers in Massachusetts check out http://www.MassGeocachers.org

New site for mass cachers with custom geo-instensive search engine, blogs, product reviews, community .etc... still in the early stages

)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] freekquency:
Just loaded the 7/29 version of GCzII up

I did not uninstall first i let the program do it itself.. install went fine.

couple weird things:

I first just tried pulling up the prev list from yesterdays caching. The first thing it did was kept saying internet unavailable in offline mode. So i went and shut off offline mode.... but of course it still didnt work because i have no data atm.

Ok so then i tried clearing my cache list and importing the same one... thru gpx import button. It was trying to find an xml file? I selected "all files" instead, and when i selected my gpx it said "no cache found"

I then turned on gps (even thou im in the house) trying to figure out why suddenly i had no offline mode. After going to gpx import again w/ the gps on it seemed to open the file ok, and i could open a cache page ok.

It seems to be working fine now... i dont know if this is because i let the program do the uninstall and it kept my user.xml file or whatever the file is that holds your settings ?? (sorry im only 1/2 geek)

Just wanted to give anyone else a heads up. Maybe my phone is just freeking out .. lol

TOM: how about being able to take more then one picture w/ the camera button? Maybe a user setting? select number of pictures before it jumps back to GCzII?

Also have you ever though of setting this up to run as some sort of Widget?

I would love to put a form of GCzII on my website. Or Igoogle. just a thought.

thanks again
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Ep Woody:
It's possible to import a GPX, but that's a full GPX with all descriptions etc. Is it also possible to load a few GPX/Loc-files to create a custom cache list? I now downloaded the GPX-files to a SD-card, uploaded them to my PHP server, and run a custom script to get the right info in a cachelist XML file. After that converted the file from UTF8 to UTF16 and placed it in my cachelist folder. After that I got my personal list with the caches along a route. But I can imagine theres a better way.

I might create a descent version of my convertion script, so more users are able to use this script.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bmielke:
geocaching.com down?

I can't get any cachedescription via gczII I only see the busy circle :mad:

Later then GCz error:

internet URL open failed.

[01_LoginAuth.html]

I think the problem seems to be that the geocaching-server down again?!

Has anyone else the same problem???
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] RChris173:
First I want to tell the author how much I love the program and appreciate all the work to make it! It really is awesome!

I do have one suggestion about it, though. I find that sometimes I leave the application open and when I do overnight, that my battery drains completely. I don't know if this has to do with constant GPS/Data activity or if it's something unrelated to this program, but if in fact it is, could it be looked into for a possible solution? Thanks :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] derlbear:
Asking for another feature

Would it be possible to add a feature for a timestamp in the field notes as in Windows Mobile notes? I always add the time to the log because it's interesting to see when who was at the cache place. With this feature you would have to click 1 oder 2 buttons and then you would have the right time included in the log.

Thank you Tom! Asking again: Do you have a "donate" button :-) ?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] derlbear:
It's the GPS. Why don't you just close the application? It doesn't make any sense that GCzII should include a batterysaver option or something like that, because 99,9% of the users want to use it when it's on :-)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Gech:
Hi

Please try for GPX export.

http://1942.rocketspace.net/PQzII/GCzII_20090731_1000_0234_10_GPX_Export.zip

thanks

tom
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] kadango:
Hi,

great job Tom!!!!

Export now works. Caches, Description, Hint and Logs are shown on a Garmin Oregon.

Just 2 little things:

HTML-Tags of description are shown e.g. <b> <br> etc.

German letters Ä,Ö,Ü are not shown correctly

Thanks for your work

Here three screenshots from my Oregon:

Description:

Logs:

Hint:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] lbrucek:
Just used GPX Export, sent to GSAK, all is there except the logs and hints.:confused:.

Tom, your GCzII program has made paperless caching a dream come true!

Thank you.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jack_Brody:
It is enough if you just turn off the GPS. That way GCzII won't block the powersaving feature of the OS. No problem then with running GCzII for days. Turn on GPS only when you are seeking a particular cache.

Everything is OK on Tom's part. :-)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Gech:
Hi

Ver 0.2.35.1 starts multi language support now.

I need your help to translate your languages.

1) See the pictures and translate it and make a text file in your language. (IMAGE_TEXT.png / IMAGE_TEXT_2.png)

2) Download text file and translate in your language. (GCzII.exe_txt.zip)

post here above 3 files.

*** text files should be UTF-16 ***

thanks

tom
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Phil82de:
Here are the first text-files for the german translation. I don't know if I can translate the exe-file complete because I will fly away this night for one week.

By the way: since Ver 0.2.34.10 zoom into 200% in static maps don't work for me!

Happy caching

Phil
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] kadango:
Hi,

the 2 text-files already translated are ok. I am going to translate the exe tonight.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Phil82de:
Hey! =)

I already translated 2/3 of the exe-file...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] derlbear:
Könnt ihr ja vorher mal rundschicken, damit wir Deutschen mal drübergucken können :-) Manche Sachen braucht man ja nicht übersetzen, da sie ja bei Cachern eingedeutscht wurden.

also bis später dann :-)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] boeykenk:
I have tried to translate the 2 png-files to Dutch.

Exe will follow.

But as Derlbear mentioned (I hope I understood it correctly ... German is not always easy to understand ;)), some things should not be translated because it's "geocaching language" :cool:.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Phil82de:
Here is my translated EXE-TXT. It was lot of work cose I had to translate some words much times again and again. Would be great if someone could check it for errors. I don't knew "1023	"Set COM timeout failed. %s" or "MAX_STR_LEN".
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] stofik:
Feature

Hi Tom,

possible new feature ideas:

1) Would be possible to automatically download static maps with caches? (or set it in options)

2) Integration into static maps: Download surround map tiles. :)

Best Regards!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] derlbear:
I checked your file, found some mistakes and corrected them. Then I changed some things in the file, e.g.

Does anyone want to double check it? And if you agree to the things I said in the quote-box I'll also change that.

Cheers,

derlbear

Same in German:

Deine Übersetzung ist sehr gut, bis auf ein paar Rechtschreibfehler habe ich nicht sehr viel ändern müssen. Nur oben bei den Dingen wusste ich nicht so recht, wie die Mehrheit das haben möchte. Static map existiert im deutschen nicht wirklich und mit Landkarte oder Satellitenbild bei Pinpoint müsste man doch mehr damit anfangen können, oder?

Desweiteren habe ich beim GPS deine eigene Meinung rausgenommen :-), denn für die meisten empfiehlt es sich doch die automatische Einstellung zu lassen.

Dann verwende ich beim Cachen mit anderen meist die Begriffe Difficulty und Terrain, was man auch in den Logs so nachlesen kann. Sollen wir es dann in der deutschen Version dabei belassen oder es wortwörtlich übersetzen? Denke es ist einfacher, wenn wir die englischen Begriffe drin lassen, die genau so auf geocaching.com verwendet werden.

Deine Lösung für Trackables (GC/TBs) find ich übrigens klasse und verständlicher :-)

Hab noch "GPS-Position noch nicht bestimmbar" in "GPS-Position noch nicht bestimmt" geändert.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] derlbear:
Menu --> Option --> Static Map Settings

Then check the maps you want to download.

Cheers,

derlbear
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] lbrucek:
I tried again today, and its getting better, everything is working great except only one log is displayed in Gsak.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] stofik:
I know, but it didn´t work and i discovered it at holidays - without internet. :(

Ok, i´ll try it again. Maybe there were renaming of map tiles in new version and i downloaded them with older version. ;)

Edit: Ok, it is working now. There were only change to *.jpg extension. So previous maps hadn´t been recognized.

One thing was bad. :confused: Some way many folders (mainly these with caches) disappeared from my SD card. It happend probably with some soft-reset. I recovered card and most of folders and files with some FAT recovery application, but... It taked all night to scan card clusters.

Sorry for offtopic. Never mind. ;)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Arrakis_cz:
Export track log to Google Earth

Hi Tom,

first of all I want to thank you for your excelent aplication :-)

I have got a problem. I would like to use GCz for logging my geocaching trips but I do not know how to convert logged data to another format.

I tried to use GPSBabel (I set up input format Nmea 0183 sentenses and output Google Earth kml) but it did not work.

Could you (or anybody else) advise me how to get logged track from GCz to Google Earth, please?

Thank you for your help :-)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Lord.Nibbler:
Hi Tom :)

Please find attached my first attempt of French translation.

There is yet a big issue : French (and maybe other languages also) are quite twice more verbose than English :( So some words/phrases are very difficult to translate in the same text width :o

Maybe you'll have to create the localized versions, then translators will have to see the result and try to adapt their work and send you back re-customized translations to fit the screen sizes.

If someone here speak French please check the files and suggest corrections / better translation especially if it is shorter without loosing the meaning :D

Si vous parlez français merci de relire les fichiers et n'hésitez pas à corriger et proposer de meilleurs traductions surtout si elles sont plus concises et sans perte de sens.

Also I tried to translate some geocaching terms ... but maybe it is better to keep them in English.

Also maybe the error messages shouldn't be localized at all... the support will be a lot more difficult if each user that encounters a problem give the error message in its localized language :rolleyes:

And BTW just a little feature request : could you please let the zoom level start at 8 instead of 10 for Huge static map ? Thanks :cool:

Cheers,

Nibbler.