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Understood.

Hello again. Maybe a bold question but do you consider publishing the source code? In that case I could perhaps find some time to fix at least some minor bugs. Or do you plan to release a new version "soon"? Or perhaps make Smache commercial?

I store my databases on "\SD-MMCard\My Documents\gps". When I choose to open database in Smache for the first time, it is ok - it open directory "\My Documents". When I try to open database again, it is not ok - it shows path "\SD-MMCard\My". (Again it is not anything important. Just two clicks delay ) By the way: does Smache support "child waypoints" - subwaypoints of a cache? When I tried it Smache loaded them into the list of waypoints, which is not ideal. What is the fourth icon from left in the cache details? I thougth it could be something like this. 2Pasha: I had a similar problem. I wrote some stupid xml transformation (a xsl file) to compute a unique ID from the name of the cache. If you are interested I can send it to you but there are probably better solutions.

Great Yes I did. I got some different error. (Sorry, I didn't grab the screen and I don't remember the exact message.)

The logic of decoding/encoding hints seems to be reversed for GPX. I have to put decoded hints into Groundspeak:encoded_hints element so that Smache could interpret it correctly. Thank you for your patience and for this great software

Some more remarks: Does Smache support other charsets than "western" in GPX files? For me non-western characters appear as "?". My PDA goes into suspend after the specified time, Smache does not keep it active. The PDA can be set not to go to suspend but that is only a workaround. Why doestn't a new (finished) track appear in the list of tracks and waypoints immediately? It appears after restart of Smache. Waypoints appear immediately. And even tracks appear immediately in the combobox for destination selection. Today I have had some problems working with tracks. (Probably due to PDA going to suspend) And after restart of Smache I get this error message: Error loading database Error getting waypoints Error reading waypoint records ...Waypoint.Smd is not a smache database file and the database doesn't load. I had to create a new databse and take waypoints files from it.

You can test any cache and make the description long enough by copy pasting. (Take a GPX file with only one cache and make the description long so that the file is say 65KB long. I tried this with two different caches.) I can send you some sample if necessary. Problem was with some "extended version" of GCVGD8. The original GCVGD8 GPX should be OK. Maybe there are some real caches (probably multicaches) long enough to cause this problem, I don't know. I have to correct my last post, the error is Error retrieving cache. Smache data structure exception: ... Error reading cache detail. ArgumentOutOfRangeException.

And one more small problem (I am just trying to be helpful ). A cache with a very long description can be imported from GPX, but can't be viewed. Smache throws an exception: ... error reading cache detail...OutOfBoundsException.

I finally tried to change the PDA regional settings and that was it All what is needed is to change the decimal symbol to decimal point (dot). Now GPS works. One small problem I forgot to mention last time is in open file dialog (for GPX import). I use "File Dialog Changer" (a replacement for standard and stupid Windows Mobile file dialog). It works fine I can recommend it. But in Smache there is some problem with the file filter (mask, type or whatever it is called). Even though "GPX Files" is selected in the Type box of the dialog, GPX files just do not appear. I have to manually write the name of the file to the Name box to import it.

Do you mean there are some issues for some regions according to GPS coordinates or my PDA settings? I am from the Czech Republic, approximately 50.0N, 14.5E. I use a partial czech localization (keyboard, dictionaries) on my PDA. OK, it seems it was a corrupted file then. Perhaps it could be good to have some advanced user setting to load GPX caches by their names. It is the users' responsibility not to change the name if they want to load their GPX to Smache. But of course it is stupid to try to support corrupted files

Hi, this program is what I am looking for! But when I ran it I got two problems 1. GPS is not working correctly. Smache indicates 3d fix (after GPS fixes of course), the number of taken samples grows and time connected too, but (P/H/V)DOP values are all 50 and coordinates are 0, 0. 2. I had some (incorrect?) gpx file, where all the caches (Groundspeak:cache xml element) had equal ID. As far as I understand it (and I am certainly no expert) Smache updates its database according to those IDs which means I could import only one cache. Wouldn't it be better to use for this purpose <wpt><name> (e.g. GCH6E5) instead? Finally I wrote some stupid xml transformation and made those ids unique but it is not a real solution anyway. My system Fujitsu-Siemens Pocket Loox N560 (Windows Mobile 5, integrated Sirf3 GPS) Thanks and keep up good work!