[MANUAL] - creating custom screen

[rtspring]

Dear Menion,

I like your product a lot, and i am playing with screen customization for a while with great succes. I have a few questions:

A) Unfortunately i am in a despirate need for a new {action}. (or perhaps it's already there but i couldn't find it) You provide the {orient_course} variable, which can be used to rotate the compass scale accordingly. What i would like to have is the possibility to move the compass needle...
In other words: If my course orientation is NE, the rotateview rotates the image 45 degrees counter clockwise, such that NE points up.
What I would lik instead is that my rotateview holds an image of the compass needle, and rotates this 45 degrees in clockwise (opposit) direction.

Any help on this matter is appriciated very much.

B) Besides, but less urgent, it would be great to have another {action} variable that holds the angle between last gps position and the previous gps position, which is not neccesarely the same. (although my boat is heading towards one direction, it will drift due to the wind. as a result, the actual course might be very different from my heading)

C) Is it possible to calculate with multiple {action} variables? Example:

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locus:action="{guide_wpt_angle} - {map_rotate}"

D) Finally i'd love to know if it is possible for me to define buttons in my custom screen that hold actions like "zoom" or "select map" or "start recording track"?

Thank you so much for your time,

Rudolf

[menion]

Hi,
I'm glad that someone is playing with this feature. Unfortunately non of your answers have now positive response. But if I see that someone like you is interested in this, I'll try to do something with this. Cannot currently say time, because I'm mainly fighting with vector maps etc. but I'll look at it

[rtspring]

Just an idea of what i am working on

[menion]

hey, what the ... ... perfect!!

EDIT: So, I at least added:

"{orient_course_opposit}", // course orientation (source depend on selection on GPS screen - GPS or internal compass)
"{orient_gps_shift}", // orientation computed as bearing from previous to current GPS location

[rtspring]

YES YES Thanks! (Can't wait for the update...)

[rtspring]

Aaaarghhh...

Allmost done, but in need for one more parameter / {action}...
To complete my 'sailing skin', i need something you did with {guide_wpt_angle}, calculated from {orient_course} and {guide_wpt_azim}...
Which is {orient_gps_shift} - {orient_course}, call it something like {orient_gps_angle}
It gives me the real direction in which we are moving...

Thanks

[menion]

thanks for PM, I'm sure you know how to do it (Relative layout is your friend)

anyway I don't fully understand to you new {orient_gps_angle}

correct direction you're going is {orient_gps_shift}, this is correct value ... ah when I write it, I get it This is correct value only when you have your phone (tablet) looking forward .. got it

EDIT: added, I just hope it will have good orientation, you have to check (I'm too lazy on it )

[rtspring]

Hi, thanks again, once more...

I will check, soon i will be able to show you a first version of my 'sailing' skin
(first for tablet, later for smaller screen as well)

[rtspring]

1.9.4 i love it YES YES, Thanks!!!

EDIT: One final remark i see that the filtering for {orient_gps_shift} has been implemented. But now when i am not moving, it defaults back to value 0. So each time i am standing still, gps heading jumps pointing north. I would like it to keep the last value instead. As such my orientation is kept in the same direction when i am standing still, and continues to update when i am moving again...

Further: GREAT , i have tested all {orient_gps_shift}, {orient_gps_angle}, {orient_course_opposit}, and they all point in the right direction!!!

Great work!

[stebu]

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Hi Menion!

Would it be possible to add a list of closest POIs within the alert range? Or at least the closest one, please.
Like:
"{POIalert_name}"
"{POIalert_distance}"
"{POIalert_bearing}"

The list option could have 5 closest POIs ("{POIalert_name_1}" etc)

This would be useful at least for Geocahing, when serching for closeby caches. Unless you decide to implement this as a part of POI alert, which would be even greater!

[gynta]

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[riju]

Hi Menion,

thanks for providing this great application! (I used to be an Ozi fan now switching to Locus .. )

I'm currently working to create a custom screen to be used for flying - (see picture)
As I want to use the screen on various devices (Galaxy, eeePad) I started to use the units (dp) for widget sizes and (sp) for textSize and I have realized that (sp) does not seem to be recognized (no change in textSize) - see the attached zip file - ... is there anything I'm doing wrong?
In addition I took an attempt to use resources to easily change colors, sizes, and language ... does this work? if so how?
Do you plan to offer more actions like: start recording, stop recording, center GPS position on map?
Is there a way to change the way the time is displayed e.g. without showing the units like 12:05:45 ?
Proposal create something similar to the formatting provided for altitude, speed .. - proposal {h}{m}{s}

I know it's a lot of stuff but you can tell I really like to use it

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[menion]

very very nice ...

I really plan to expand "Custom screen" a lot ... this is just a "Beta" version to discover if there will be interest for such feature. I see a huge potential in this, so I'll for sure work on this at start of next year!

(also, do you use OpenAir data?)

[riju]

thanks for your reply.
I'm looking forward to any updates!

The map shown on the screen is a "scanned and calibrated" version of an ICAO map - I have used Oziexplorer to calibrated it and mapc2mapc to convert it to SQlite -
In parallel I'm working to create a OSM based vector map for flying, which merges OSM data and AirPath Data for airspace info (I have already written a converter to translate AirPath into OSM format using some custom tags.)

I will post a sample in seperate OSM threat as soon as it is available

[bebe814]

Hi riju,
I'm interested if you succeed in vector map for flying. I was trying to create one with GPSBabel but finaly I found out there will be so many information with lot of overlayed airspaces (TMA, TSA, CTR ...) and locus have no ability to filter(turn on/off) layers and also navigation to point stored in .map is not possible (as far as I know) .So I end up with POI for airports and OpenAir files for airspaces (loaded/filtered through map item manager). Also missing (or not found so far - i'm relatively new user) functionality to search for points in POI (or in .map when offline) I can only select them from map

@menion: would be possible in map item manager to let user to select more files and then confirm (at the moment after selection dialog closes immediately - it's not so comfort when you have 15 openair files)

[riju]

Hi bebe,

still working on it - will create a different threat - somewhere in the OSM context. (Major challenge is that the required renderers do not support custom tags that are required for Airpath data) (will keep you posted)

Hi Menion,
any progress on addition capabilities for custom screens? I would love to continue working on it.
What I would be looking for is to include buttons to control Locus in my screen as well as some Odo Meters

Hope to hear from you soon

[cahillcahill]

There is a little problem of graphics size and text size. Anyways good!

[menion]

hello Guys,
I was waiting some time with updates of Custom screens. Main reason was, that there was no possibility to simply publish such screens to people. Anyway now exist Locus Shop and even if there is not yet some simple possibility to publish some your works by your own, I can do it for you.

So, if you have some nice screen, you would like to publish to people, I can do it for you by Locus shop. There is many possibilities like links to some screenshot, web page and for some interesting - possibility to sell some created screen (also or icons, etc ...) over Locus Shop. In this case, contact me by PM. I just warn, that I still don't have perfect system on such tasks so it may take some time till I react anyway adding Custom screen skins for free, is task for few minutes ...

[riju]

Hello menion,

thank you for the update -
Before publishing my screens I would like to add some of the features I have mentioned in earlier posts.
By when do you expect these types of features to be available - (e.g. additional actions that can be used on custom screens)

[menion]

hmm I have no specific plan for this (time plan I think). Tomorrow I would like to release new version so I think that during next week, I should start some works also on these custom screens ... I'll let you know in this topic when something change