
Geofellas
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I apologize. Part of that was my fault for not sending the follow-up email promptly. I have sent it and will notify the community of any response.
Thank you for pursuing this.
(Gee... that sounds awfully official and formal this time.)
TPTB seem awfully silent
:)
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(Gee... that sounds awfully official and formal this time.)
Watch it or you'll become "one of them"
Thanks again
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Bump
Another week gone by....
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For problems with the site, I give them at most a week to respond. If I don't hear anything, I will escalate it, then keep asking.
Hi RF
Well - it's been 12 days since you reported this to TPTB and the problem still exists. Time to rattle some cages perhaps?
Thanks for all you do for this community
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Reported this problem about a month ago to Groundspeak. I received a confirmation email but no follow up since. I still see the problem each time I try to enter a WG log, via Firefox 3.5, 3.6 and IE 7 or 8. The stored procedure error makes sense.
Hopefully they will pay more attention to Ranger Fox
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Odd that someone either removed or misspelled a stored proc. You think someone misspelled the prefix?
Yes - that's what I figured. I also, however, figured that it was odd that this had been giving this problem for over a week and that no-one else had experienced it, ot maybe no one else reported it. Perhaps they were all doing the same as me and expecting someone else to report it?
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You are uploading the GWS file, right?
If so, please send me the save file. If I can reproduce it, I can send it up to Groundspeak.
No actually - this is not happening on the cartridge upload, it is on the log page
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Wherigo Home > GO Wherigo Stouffville Line > Create New Log Entry
Record Log for GO Wherigo Stouffville Line"
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I can still send you the file if you think it will help - can you PM me with the e-mail address to send it to?
Thanks
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...a burned out automobile.
While setting one of the caches for Pickering Airport - April Fool's Joke 2004 today (yes - in the pouring rain no less!!) I encountered the burned out shell of a car that wasn't there a couple of weeks ago when I was scouting out the location.
Needless to say the police were very interested
given that there was a discarded gas can tossed into the field next to it and it was a place that no-one (except the occasional geocacher) goes on any kind of a regular basis. I let them do the actual "TO" bit of "CITO" (they probably wanted to dust it for fingerprints or something) but I claim the prize to date....
Strangely the local constabulary didn't ask why I was there in the first place - I'm glad I didn't have to explain geocaching to them - they couldn't handle it when I tried to tell them the location by giving them Lat and Long though
So - this got me to reminiscing and wondering how people were planning their next 24 hours' activities 6 years ago today - and 5 and 4 and 3 and 2 years ago today
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I have been trying to log a completed cartridge for over a week now - when hitting the "Submit Log" button I always get this:
Server Error in '/' Application.
Could not find stored procedure 'spaw_UPDATECartridge'.
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.
Exception Details: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Could not find stored procedure 'spaw_UPDATECartridge'.
Source Error:
An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below.
Stack Trace:
[sqlException (0x80131904): Could not find stored procedure 'spaw_UPDATECartridge'.]
AWObjectBase.Update() +590
controls_LogControl.UpdateDB() +136
controls_LogControl.btnSubmit_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e) +294
System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button.OnClick(EventArgs e) +111
System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button.RaisePostBackEvent(String eventArgument) +110
System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button.System.Web.UI.IPostBackEventHandler.RaisePostBackEvent(String eventArgument) +10
System.Web.UI.Page.RaisePostBackEvent(IPostBackEventHandler sourceControl, String eventArgument) +13
System.Web.UI.Page.RaisePostBackEvent(NameValueCollection postData) +36
System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) +1565
Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:2.0.50727.3603; ASP.NET Version:2.0.50727.3082
At first I assumed this was going to get fixed quickly but it has been over a week.
I have rebooted my machine but it keeps happening.
Is it actually possible to record logs any more?
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Bit short on time right now but when I have fixed up some more of the bugs I shall publish the code. Not open source in the sense of allowing others to update (the Wherigo site doesn't provide such a mechanism - need SVN or CVS or something to do that effectively) but let's say "freely available"
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Maybe the fact that I live in The Netherlands has got something to do with it?!?!
Yes. In their infinite wisdom TPTB appear to have provided this functionality only for the USA. However, if you use some coordinates close to where you want the zone to be (entering by hand initially - the create from address thing works too - and you only need to enter a town name) then you can use the "Edit Online" button to adjust the zone on a google map. Why they didn't put this functionality in the initial zone creation dialog is beyond me but there it is. The Edit online button is quite good.
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the player inputs a wp. Can i let things happen in that zone?
You certainly can but, because it is a very tiny zone, I would suggest creating a larger zone and then moving it so it surrounds the location that the user creates. This starts to get a bit tricky and definitely cannot be done in the builder although you will need to create the infrastructure for it in the builder. This is certainly an "advanced" technique.
You can modify the technique to do whatever you want I suppose, changing the code for waypoint creation (when I finally decide to release it - which I SHALL when I am happy with it) to perform whatever your imagination dictates (within the limits of the Wherigo functionality, of course - it will NOT tell you next week's winning lottery numbers!!)
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but where do the brackets go if i have:
Hallo Player.Name and more text
i get errors when i do this
Here is an example:
[[Hello ]] .. Player.Name .. [[. How are you today?]]
..
is the string concatenation operator in lua,
[[ ]]
are the text delimiters (although
""
and
''
seem to work in some places, using
[[
and
]]
seems to be safest )
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That would be great for the player's name, but where would you find the person's team name? Was that what you wanted--the player's name?
Isn't that the same thing? When you download the cartridge from Wherigo.com it puts your geocaching.com team name into the cartridge and that is accessed via Player.Name
So either we are having a semantic nit pick discussion over the difference between "team" and "player" or there are two different entities that you can associate with a cartridge that I am not aware of.
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That line of code forces an update to the player's lat/lon (position) if there is one. This is so that if there's a lag in gps processing, the location will update with this function call. If the gps is on and there is a good signal, this isn't needed.
Thanks J2B2
Could you help a bit further by explaining what you mean by a "lag in GPS processing" ?
Do you mean
- slow code execution, during which the player might have moved?
- loss of GPS signal altogether (or at least with a reasonable accuracy)?
- something else?
Is this something that all coders should be considering the need to handle in their cartridges? I have a nagging worry that there are all kinds of things that could go wrong for one of the above reasons or similar causes and which most code is not going to handle safely (or even, at all).
- slow code execution, during which the player might have moved?
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Can i use the team name in messageboxes? How is this done?
Use something like the following as the text in the message box
[[Your team name is ]] .. Player.Name
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Is it possible that with entering a waypoint you could create a new zone?
That is exactly how it works.
Creating a new waypoint, either using "mark", "create" or "average" creates a new, very small, zone. (If you want to know the gory details it is an equilateral triangle with each apex 10 ft from the entered coordinates at bearings of 0, 120 and 240 degrees true)
Only the latest one created is visible in the "Locations" list (for performance reasons), however every waypoint created is still "there" but inactive and invisible until you "Goto" it, at which time it becomes the only "waypoint" (i.e. zone) in the locations list.
Am I misunderstanding your question?
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Would it also be possible to add fitness functions for the heart rate monitor through a Wherigo cartridge? That would be pretty interesting also.
I would need to get info on what functions are available from the Wherigo library in order to do that (if it were even posible) - and that information is not forthcoming. Pretty much all the fancy stuff in this cartridge is the result of combing through exisiting code that TPTB have released and figuring out what it does, partly by experimentation
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Version 1.7 of "Build your own GPSr" is now available
Version 1.7 fixes a problem with saving and restoring, which lost waypoint information. Better handling of poor accuracy preventing you from doing silly things. Note there may be an issue with creating new waypoints on the Colorado with firmware 2.7 - there seems to be a limit on input text string length that wasn't there before - that will be addressed in the next release.
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Been waiting for you to do this. Please keep us posted!
Version 1.7 of "Build your own GPSr" is now available
Version 1.7 fixes a problem with saving and restoring, which lost waypoint information. Better handling of poor accuracy preventing you from doing silly things. Note there may be an issue with creating new waypoints on the Colorado with firmware 2.7 - there seems to be a limit on input text string length that wasn't there before - that will be addressed in the next release.
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This is Fantasitc, I am trying it on my PDA right now.
I have noticed 1 bug, it crashes when you project, create or average a waypoint, Message: Lua Error ...51-4c18-b8bc-cafb16bd35f3/Build your own GPS-new.enc: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value), then the option to exit the application.
It happened when I projected 1000m at 90 from my location S27 24.929 E152 56.727, after entering "test" as the WP name
And when I averaged for 1min after I tried to enter a name for the WP.
This error also happened after trying to create a WP, again after I entered a name.
I am running an iPAQ H2200 and a leadtek bluetooth GPS, and have run several cartridges before without problem. I notice the same problem using the emulator. I have a saved cartridge with 1 saved WP, which worked OK.
Further testing, it only occurs when you try to create, project, mark, etc a WP on a saved cartridge, that has a saved WP.
Also, not a bug, but I tired to copy and paste coordinates from GPXview, but you need to edit out the degrees symbol and spaces. Might be good if it could be a bit more flexible in the coorindates entry.
Thanks
Tony
Thanks
There is a bug with saving and resuming which would do what you describe - I hope to publish an update today to fix that - just in final testing mode
There is a problem with degrees symbols which is why I don't include them - they don't seem to be handled consistently across platforms and trying to handle them is probably going to cause more problems than it would solve -see this thread
Also I have found with version 2.7 of the Colorado firmware that I cannot enter an entire coordinate string due to input field size limitations so I am going to have to redesign that entire input.
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More importantly, there does not look to be a Wherigo Player update bundled with this firmware.
I wonder though -
Has this version reduced the maximum input string length in a Wherigo?
When I originally wrote my Build your own GPSr I tested it on version 2.6 and was able to enter a string like
N55 22.222 W079 33.000
But now I have upgraded to version 2.7 I can't enter more than
N55 22.222 W079 33
Has anyone else noticed a change in the maximum length input string in a Wherigo cartridge with this update?
I'm clearly going to have to change my cartrdge logic.
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Has this version reduced the maximum input string length in a Wherigo?
When I originally wrote my Build your own GPSr I tested it on version 2.6 and was able to enter a string like
N55 22.222 W079 33.000
But now I have upgraded to version 2.7 I can't enter more than
N55 22.222 W079 33
Has anyone else noticed a change in the maximum length input string in a Wherigo cartridge with this update?
I'm clearly going to have to change my cartrdge logic.
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For now folks, please don't try this when you have no GPS signal
Also, thanks to Timpat's testing, I have determined that saving and restoring will likely cause a crash as it doesn't save all needed info about the created waypoints. I seem to have fixed that now and have tested successfully in the Emulator and, at the same time, added code to handle poor accuracy issues. I hope to get this sanity checked in the CO and have version 1.7 released by tomorrow (Wednesday, Eastern North America time)
UPDATE; This is now available as mentioned here
Unable to record log on site
in Wherigo
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Hi again - so that was Wednesday just over 2 weeks ago. Were you able to get the meeting? Did you get any indication from TPTB that they actually care?