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[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] fab6969:
i want to have a lean GC-client.

no statistics (are in my profile on www.geocaching.com), no pics, no offline-cache.

if i want to use an offline-client i use gpstuner.

tom, great program!

fab
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] xhozt:
same com errors here ;-( any progress on that front ? i really like the new features but cant use em still forced to stay on .32 here
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hakan42:
Actually, this is not completely true :p

GPX, being a XML dialect, can be written in any encoding, including UTF-8 and UTF-16. You only have to indicate the correct encoding you chose in the header of the file. That way, correctly implemented XML readers can read "any" encoding.

Please read up on the advantages and disanvantages of UTF-8 on the wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8

With the GPX files created by geocaching.com being encoded in UTF-8, I would not be surprised that dedicated GPSr devices like the Garmin Oregon assume that encoding and would break in interesting ways if they encountered UTF-16. Then again, one could always hope that they might include "correct" XML parsers :D

Regards,

Hakan
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] rsheff:
I agree 100% with fab. Too many bells and whistles take away from the original intent of Tom's program. There are lots of programs that will do other things that seem to be wanted, but being able to just grab the nearby caches on the fly will probably meet 90% of the users needs.

I've been in computers for over 50 years and if you keep adding features everyone wants, you'll never get done.

Great product, Tom.

Rich
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jack_Brody:
Well, as far as I know, GCz is "only" a online client with small improvements (compass, offline saved listings). It actually doesn't have any database on which statistics could be based.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jack_Brody:
Tom, I have found one weird behavior on a trackable page. Look at the attached image. The button "Records" is greyed out and I can't get into the records. They become accesible after I redownload the trackable.

If I then go to search screen, and then back to TB page, the button "Records" is greyed out again.

Maybe the records are incorrectly saved to a file?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Titus_Andronicus:
Exelent Software! Thanks so much.

Could some one explane how the history works? Also, when a cache is loaded, GCzII saves the info somewhere (for off line caching?). Is there a way to clear this up when it becomes too large?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Gech:
To clear the files, just delete folders under GCzII installed except "Skin" folder.

thanks

tom
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] arghness:
An official API doesn't have to be open, you know. Sometimes people sell APIs, as geocaching.com may well have done here.

Also, Geocache Navigator works perfectly on Symbian phones and is incredibly popular. In fact, it's the only platform on which Geocache Navigator is available free. It's not a fast action game, so Java is a perfectly reasonable platform for use. Nokia Java implemenations on Symbian devices have access to many more low level features and JSRs than on Windows Mobile.

Similarly, there's no reason why a geocaching application should be any better as a native WM app than a .NET CF app.

GCz is the only application on WM that I've found that comes close to Geocache Navigator in terms of usability (I currently use both applications).

Try not to be so close minded :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Gech:
> Hi Lord.Nibbler

>> I tried to download several caches and hit the MAX_STR_LEN overflow limit [31999/32000]

Could you let me know GC code? (GCxxxxx)

I need to check it.

thanks

tom
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] khaytsus:
"Native WM" and .Net are quite different than horrible J2ME.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Gech:
Hi eyecannon

Could you give me example values?

for exsample, I checked below.

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http://www.geocaching.com/wpt/?lat=52.991667&lon=5.945&detail=1

Set Target Location

52 59.5002 => 52.991667

5 56.7000 => 5.945000

It seems fine.

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Please let me know below.

Current GPS Latitude&Longitude.

Target Location Latitude&Longitude.

I will check GCz calculation routine with the values.

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thanks

tom

FYI

************************************

Latest GCz

Version 0.0.29

Date 2009-02-21 (21 Feb 2009)

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(Recommend AppToDate for easy update.)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] eyecannon:
I noticed it on this cache: GC97DB

If I click Set Cache Location, it works fine, but if I enter the same coordinates in Set Target Location it is way off. Try this one and see if what you get on GCz matches what it has on the cache page.

N 34° 04.213 W 118° 26.760 would be inputted as this, right?:

34 04 213

-118 26 760

When I hit convert, it converts to -117.something which is wrong, since it should be -118.something.

What about the other bug I mentioned? Am I the only one seeing a 180 degree shift?

EDIT:

so with the cache I listed, it should convert to 34.07022 -118.446, but instead GCz converts it to 34.07022 -117.55400... only the longitude is wrong.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] eyecannon:
BTW, with your coordinates it works perfectly, so I suspect there is a problem with W or negative longitudes...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] clearcase:
thankyou SO much

I have been looking for a geocaching prog like this forever. i have found a few but none as easy and painless to use as this one. google maps use is fantastic. keep up the great work
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] roderickhowie:
Absolutely amazing piece of software - so easy to use.

On my HTC Kaiser, the GPSr times out sometimes unless I have another application running in the background that already has a sat lock

I would quite like to also have the option to filter out temporarily unavailable caches but this maybe a limitation of the GC website.

Thanks for all your hard work.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Radimus:
This thing works amazingly well... Thank you.

I took my family out to a local park and found our first 2 caches with this.

Rock on, buddy

Suggestion, could you have it do a "beep-beep" or "ping-ping" sound effect that gets faster as you get closer to the target... sometimes you need your hands free
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] digitaldon37:
This is great! I wish I had downloaded this before I went camping this weekend. Using PIE to look up a cache on the geocache site and trying to download the waypoint file was difficult - it required too many steps and programs.

This program looks like it combines everything you need into one program. I'll try this out on our next camp out.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] glaucos:
Found a bug:If you look at my picture, you can see that LAT and LON are blank...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Gech:
Hi glaucos,

Did you choose "Set Cache Location" or "Set Target Location" in the Menu manually?

regards,

tom
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] glaucos:
Opsss...	I had not seen that option, sorry :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] eyecannon:
Gech, still loving your program, but wondering if you have seen what I have reported.

I found 9 caches today on my bike with your software :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] <insertwittyusernamehere>:
When I attempt to search for nearby caches Internet Explorer opens. I was under the impression that this program is supposed to show nearby caches without a browser. Am I doing something wrong?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Gech:
Go Go eyecannon!!!! ;D

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Hi <insertwittyusernamehere>,

>> When I attempt to search for nearby caches Internet Explorer opens

Have you seen a popup dialog before open Internet Explorer?

It says, "You need to agree to the license agreement before you can start."

regards,

tom
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] <insertwittyusernamehere>:
Yes, I agree to the license agreement, then internet explorer opens to geocaching.com
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Gech:
Hi <insertwittyusernamehere>

Aya, I guess so,

GCz asks to open it if user has never agreed to the licence agreement of Geocaching.com.

Please visit below. (Geocaching.com Waypoint License Agreement page.)

http://www.geocaching.com/waypoints/agreement.aspx?ID=0

You need to check and submit it.

So, GCz tries to take you there.

regards,

tom
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] eyecannon:
:cool: ... :confused:

But, you didn't answer my question... have you seen the Set Target Location for W longitudes bug I mentioned? Or the Heading Head Up being backwards bug?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] <insertwittyusernamehere>:
Thanks, that solved my problem. This is a great app thats gotten me into geocaching.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Gech:
Hi eyecannon,

I tried it fix and uploaded new version 0.0.30.

Please check it.

http://www.nicque.com/PQz

By the way, I will visit Seattle this weekend.

I might check the issue in real location. ;D

regards,

tom
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] eyecannon:
Great, you fixed the conversion of negative longitudes!

But, I think Heading Head Up mode is broken... it used to move around with previous versions (pre .26 or .27 I think), but now it stays fixed to north, the same as North Up mode. It is my understanding that this should work like a compass, so if you are walking towards the cache then it will be pointing straight up... and if you are moving around it should reorient itself... correct?

Thanks for squishing these bugs :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Gech:
Hi eyecannon

Thank you for your checking. ;D

What is the Degress value under the Compass? 0.0??? or ...

Also, I uploaded new version 0.0.31 again.

http://www.nicque.com/PQz

I live in Japan and no use Mile/Yard/Feet/Pounds.... (not familiar with it.)

Tried to change Distance from mi to ft if less than 0.1mi.

anyway I will check it North/Head up routine.

regards,

tom

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I went out to take a walk.

So, I suppose it depends on accuracy of GPS devices.

If GPS returns Degrees, GCz indicates North correctly.

Plase see the attached thumbnails.

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[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] khaytsus:
Tom,

Latest version of GCzII is great! No limitations I can find!? Nice! I haven't had a chance to cache today, but I did do some searching, and tracked one of my own caches driving from work to somewhere else.

I did recall that I have a cache I did maintenance on the other day and forgot to log the Maintenance activity, so I fired up GCzII only to find out there's no maintenance log? Perhaps it only shows it if it's Disabled? I often perform maintenance on my caches when I replace logs, containers, etc, and they aren't necessarily disabled at the time. If it's possible, could you modify that?

I'm a little confused about how caches caches are used, do you mind explaining it? Is the description not downloaded again? What about the "download cache" option when viewing a cache? What does that do? If it re-loads the cache, perhaps "Reload Cache" might be better wording?

I'm not sure how it'd "fit" but one thing I think would be useful would be a way to maintain a list of waypoints, such as caches you've found, or as other people have suggested, multi-caches, etc. Again, not sure how it'd fit in the current framework, but being able to place a cache you've been hunting and found into a list, then being able to look at them later for logging would be nice. I tend to write longish logs, so logging them all directly in GCz isn't probably what I'd always do. Just a suggestion, but I think a way to maintain a waypoint list of some fashion would be nice. I can think of at least 3 ways to use the list.. Storing waypoints for multis, storing finds for later logging, and storing coordinates for new hides so they can be written up and submitted later.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Manamana25:
I see......My intention was more, to get these information, i can read in my account....The number of my finds...the status of my own items...etc.....no additional information...but, just an idea.....i can live without....

BR

Marcus
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Bobby_Digital:
Ok ok thanks a lot. My Problem (Cache not found) was that, that i don't validate may account. Don't stone my, hehe ;-)

Now it works very well.

Bye
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] adwinp:
It's be great if you could set the skin path behaviour like in build 1330 (i.e. in the program directory instead of another folder).

While integrating bld 1630 in a ROM, we unnecessarily waste ROM space, since we have to copy over the files to new folders.

If you want to integrate language/skins, they can always exist with a suffix or prefix. For example. en_480x640.txt
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Gech:
Hi

I modify some codes.

http://www.nicque.com/PQz

GCzII_20090527_1545_0233_02.cab

Change) 0.2.33.2

1) Add waypoint.

2) Change "Download All Caches" UI.

3) "Load Cache List" works.

Need to re-download caches to activate [Waypoint] if already stored!!

please try it. ;D

thanks

tom

P.S) I suppose I fixed some issues which you reported here.

but if you still find the issues, please let me know again.

thanks

P.S 2) Also, if you think wording weird.

Please correct me. ;D

thank you
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Gech:
Hi

I forgot to add the parameter into the Log features.

currently, there are 3 types.

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For owner

Found it

Didn't find it

Write note

Temporarily Disable Listing or Enable Listing

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For User

Found it

Didn't find it

Write note

Needs Maintenance

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For Event

Write note

Will Attend

Attended

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Thank you for the remind. ;D

tom
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jack_Brody:
Hey Tom,

I see you use IE engine to render the waypoints but for this first version of waypoints display it is good, we can at least see present waypoints. And loading the cache list works too.

Maybe just a minor correction - button "Waypoint" -> "Waypoints"

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

I downloaded again the same caches with the new release and I didn't got the MAX_STR_LEN overflow error :cool:

For the progress window I have a little display issue, the line is truncated, I got by example : Downloading...(15/27) [1.3 but not the closing bracket and no indication of unit kb or Mb even if there is some available space at the end of the line.

Thank you !

Cheers,

Nibbler
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Lord.Nibbler:
Also just a little question :

How we are supposed to use the waypoints ? :o

The only way I found is : select the first part of the coordinates | copy the latitude | Back menu | GPS Monitor | Set target location | paste latitude | enter a fake longitude to allow OK menu | Back menu | Waypoint | copy the longitude ... and go all the way again to set the longitude in gps monitor target :confused:

So I surely have missed something :o but I would appreciate a little button next to the waypoint to allow to automatically set it as the target of the GPS monitor :D

Cheers,

Nibbler.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ijsco:
I just tried GCZII again, and at the moment i have one problem.

The option Search for nearby caches don't work.

When i turn on the GPS in the menu it says: Com port open failed (Com0: 4800).

I don't understand. Other programs as Google Maps and Trackr do work with this settings.

What's the problem??
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ijsco:
The problem was: You have to use Com port 4. Then it works and the other applications also.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] arghness:
On Symbian, J2ME is fine, which is what we were talking about. If you have a Symbian device, try the application and see.

I actually don't have a problem with it on WM either, myself. Opera Mini is a great application in J2ME. Google Mail is pretty good too.

J2ME is only a bit poor on WM because they don't implement enough JSRs and native APIs to give good full platform support.

Anyway, sorry to pollute the thread.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] medwyn:
Hi Tom!

As i can see, you just took the first step to offline GCz.

Do you have any plans to add Import GPX support?

With GPX, I mean PQ GPX with cca 500 caches and even more waypoints. (Currently I use about 2000 caches in BeelineGPS - there are so many of these small plastic boxes in Prague :-) )

I know that this would mean a lot of work (definitely SQL based data storage, divide search dialogs to online and offline, zoomable map (radar) with more than one cache or waypoint displayed), but still, I am sure that many Geocachers would love it.

GCz would become 10 times better than commercial BeelineGPS or GeoScout - mostly because of great user interface and outstanding support from you.

Please, think about it and let us know.

Thank you in advance!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] medwyn:
I have a bug to submit.

I downloaded list of caches around coordinates and saved it.

The list contains several caches placed during May.

Now when I load such cache from offline and open Logs, there are more logs than should be (for example logs from april, january .. ) and which belong to another cache.

Please, check it. If you need more information, just drop me a PM.

Thank you

UPDATE:

Restart of GCz solves it. So the bug has something to do with current cache (memory).
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] medwyn:
Another bug.

While downloading list of caches, a message popup showed saying

"MAX_STR_LEN overflow. [100000/100000]"

Cache GC1EVQW does that.

If you need more information, please, drop me a PM

Thank you
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] xhozt:
this will not work on the incite like mine ;-(
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Edi0177:
Tom, you did such a great job, thank you very much.

Your release from the new version of GCz2 is amazing.

You make my life (especially caching) so much easier.

A few days before i bought a new bluetooth-gpsr (Columbus V-900) because my internal gpsr in my touch diamond not accurate enought. It should be the best of the market now with atmel chipset. I tested it in a near forrest an get a very high signal strange, but the coordinates were not updated.

I called the seller and he told me that the coordinates were updated but the instantaneous speed was not passed from the chip...So i had a real good PDOP (1,1 to 1,6) and 9 to 11 satellites but no distance calculation that i need to find the cache or direction info. So my question is:

Does GCz calculate the distance only if there is a speed gets transferred or from any change in the coordinates (NMEA)?

My Columbus V-900 supports NMEA-0183HS with 38.400bps, so i used it in GCz with Com 9 and 38.400bps.

Could this be a problem?

Thank you very very much

first for providing and developing such a great software and second (maybe) for your help

I know you got not many time and i dont want to bug you with my problems, but maybe some other users get the same problems in the future.

Keep up your excellent work

best regards

Konrad

PS: excuse my bad english, Iam working on it ;)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] xhozt:
Tom hate to sound like a broken record but you asked if there were bugs unaddressed ... im still getting the comport open failed issue ..any word on a fix ?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] khaytsus:
Konrad,

Let me make sure you understand how this stuff will work ;-) Unless the GPS has an electronic compass (most do not, or are not supported) unless you're moving, you will not have an accurate heading (direction of travel), but your bearing (direction to the cache) should be accurate, as well as distance. If you are at a standstill, you should have a distance and bearing to the cache (ie: 30 meters at 271).

If you got no distance as well, I am wondering if you set GCz correctly. Was it showing the red dot (the target) on the screen? Was there a bearing/distance on the lefthand side of the screen at any time? The lefthand side is your target (again, in red), the righthand side is you (in blue, same as the dot in the middle of the screen).

Reason I'm being very specific here is to help you, but also me; I've been eyeballing the V-900 myself as a fathers day gift. :) It looks like an awesome GPS for Bluetooth as well as standalone tracking. I'd be upgrading my aging Holux 236.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] khaytsus:
Tom,

I did some tracking today of some things, no real walkabout caching (as usual, never time... sigh..) but things are working very nicely in GCzII! Loading the previous page is great, one can step through caches without any reloads! Awesome idea.

Still looking forward to 5-way navigation on the page with the buttons after selecting a cache. :)

And have one more suggestion; is it possible to put the cache name above (or below) the target info in the top lefthand side of the page? I know, generally you know which cache you are tracking, but if there are several in the area, one wants to make sure you picked the correct one, etc. I'd say you'll have to truncate the name at some number of characters, but that should be fine in general I'd think.

I'm confused about how the "Add Waypoint" works too, some description of that would be great. :)

BTW, anyone had a spontaneous reboot using GCzII? I have zero reason to suspect it's really GCzII that caused it, but on the way home today I was tracking a cache and my phone rebooted out of the blue. Just wanted to throw it out there in case anyone else has seen this. My phone is usually pretty stable, but I have had a little weirdness out of it recently. I think it's time to wipe the thing and start fresh.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Gech:
Hi medwyn

GPX support will be final phase but will do. ;D

>> The list contains several caches placed during May.

>> Now when I load such cache from offline and open Logs,

>> there are more logs than should be (for example logs from april, january .. )

>> and which belong to another cache.

I don't get it. please explain more?

>> "MAX_STR_LEN overflow. [100000/100000]"

I can reproduce it. thanks

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Hi Edi0177

Save GPS log and send it to me.

Also, you will see GPS emulator if rename the log to "NMEA.txt".

Have you tried the speed 4800 instead of 38.400?

thanks

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Hi xhozt

As you know, I don't have lg-incite. that is really hard to know what should I do.

but idea is use Windows Mobile GPS API like before.

WM API has are some problems. Slow GPS detection. No moving direction like...

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Hi khaytsus

> Still looking forward to 5-way navigation on the page with the buttons after selecting a cache.

Which windows and how to assign the 5-way?

> I'm confused about how the "Add Waypoint" works too, some description of that would be great.

Currently, just viewing Waypoints. the wording means "Add Waypoint button".

And I will change Waypoint UI.

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[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] khaytsus:
Sounds good on the Waypoint, I'll look at that again.

Here's what I'm describing wanting 5-way on. :)

In the screenshot below, I press up on the 5-way, and I arrive at the button labeled 1. I press up again, and I wind up at the button labeled 2 (could go either way, but since one is greyed out default to the one which is not). Press up again, and we wind up at 3. Left and we wind up at 4. Right and we go back to 3. Press down to go back to 2. Then press the middle of the 5-way controller to select 2 (GPS Monitor).

In reality, I'd press up twice, then in, to select the GPS Monitor. :)

Does that help?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] xhozt:
actually using the api like you did before it worked VeRY qickly . you could just re add the api as a option in gps settings ? the moving direction is nice but not really a need for me. im glad to do any testing you need me to do on my incite
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] audax67:
Hi Tom,

the program becomes better and better, I really like it.

Did anyone suggest, that it would be better to store the pictures of a geocache-description on the pda too? What I mean is: If you store the description of a geocache on your pda and start to hunt this cache later (with your stored description), the pictures in the description are reloaded online when you open the description.

Are there any plans to change this?

regards

AUDAX