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Hi Locus Team!

I just deleted three larger GPX from the folder "Gesamtstrecken". Now there a four Trails. Going one step back in the folder Hierarchie, the amount of files in the folder "Gesamtstrecken" is still seven.

Because the trails are really large, Android did ask me if I want to stop Locus or just wait. I did stop and restarted Locus.

Speaking as a programmer myself, but you can't really expect all internal bookkeeping in a database to be correct if you kill a process while manipulating that database.

No offence meant.

I ignored it maybe twenty times before I stopped Locus.

Best regards, Dieter

Fair enough, I apologize. It sounded like the delete took a little longer, Android complained a little eagerly and you killed the process immediately, which would be, well, a little quick.

Hi Locus Team!

I just deleted three larger GPX from the folder "Gesamtstrecken". Now there a four Trails. Going one step back in the folder Hierarchie, the amount of files in the folder "Gesamtstrecken" is still seven.

Because the trails are really large, Android did ask me if I want to stop Locus or just wait. I did stop and restarted Locus.

Speaking as a programmer myself, but you can't really expect all internal bookkeeping in a database to be correct if you kill a process while manipulating that database.

No offence meant.

[Beta version 4.31.3.11]

Beta version 4.31.3.11 just uploaded to Google Drive.

Sorry it took so long. We had to finish some fine-tuning.

Changelog:
 - fix: layout in Track editor

Only quick test, but seems to be working again 

One more thing:
I already brought this up a while ago (don't find the post), and it's still the case: When leaving the "Insert/edit trackpoint" function, the map jumps back to the initially selected point, which may be quite a ways away from the current position. For me, the natural thing is to edit track points along the route in chronological direction, so the jump back is quite annoying. Menion, when I brought that up before, you answered that this was probably due to some other change - so I'm not sure now whether you tried to fix that (and it didn't work) or forgot about it?

Similarly, while this was a new behaviour, it was always the case that when removing a section, you would sometimes be taken to different position. What happens here, I think, is this: Say you're on point 100 and remove points 50-100. Then Locus repositions you on point 100 again which is the former point 150, far far away. This should be easy to fix, I'd assume.

[Beta version 4.31.3.11]

Beta version 4.31.3.11 just uploaded to Google Drive.

Sorry it took so long. We had to finish some fine-tuning.

Changelog:
 - fix: layout in Track editor

Only quick test, but seems to be working again 

Menion, any ETA on a beta? I would really like to be able to use the Track Editor again Thx!

The track editor is also equally useless for me like the track chart because the bottom buttons are overlapping with the standard Android buttons.

See comments #101 and #102, previous page.

1. New design system for screens that allows control of drawing below the top status bar, bottom navigation bar and also better handles the cutout (camery in the display). It should have zero impact on stability, but some UI glitches (like buttons below the navigation bar), may appear.

Well, for me (on Galaxy S24+ and Tab S9), Track Editor is completely broken: All important buttons (Zoom, Point Forward/Backward, Menu) are hidden under my navigation bar. This sounds very much related to that change. What's weirder is that also Undo/Redo buttons (top left) don't appear when e.g. moving a point.
I made the mistake of updating while I still had several holiday tracks to clean up, so now I'm stuck

You need screenshot or sth else or can you reproduce?

Did something change with the way Locus handles language settings in 4.31.3? After I installed that (from Google Play), Locus suddenly started up in German. I checked the settings immediately, but Locus was set to "System default" and my system was definitely set to "English (UK)". Don't even know why Locus would choose German, I'm living in German-speaking country but have everything set to English - only the mobile provider might be identifiable as German.

But it gets worse: So I set Locus manually to "English (UK)", which worked, but now my times are still shown with "AM/PM", although I definitely also have "24h clock" set in my system settings (am/pm is the work of the devil ). Unfortunately, that's something I can't explicitly override in Locus under "Language & Units".

Any idea?

[@slarti76]

@slarti76
separation of LoPoints icon sizes > I hope this won't be necessary. Shouldn't be the highlighted icons a lot bigger for better visibility? Are you talking about the new permanent highlight on the map of certain categories?

I think opinions will differ on how much bigger, I'm sure. For me, the fact that the icon is given a bright blue bubble is already highlighting enough. Of course, keeping the icon itself in default size makes the whole thing automatically bigger, but to me, this is just way out of proportion.

But just so we're talking about the same thing, I attached a screenshot. I think at least the padding around the icon and the border of the bubble should be thinner. Or, alternatively, separate size factors

One more question: Why not keep the base color of the icon, and instead render everything with fixed light-blue? I mean, the un-highlighted icons all have colors based on categories, would make sense to use those for the hightlighted as well, no?

[@Tapio]

@Tapio
do you have an idea, what may help here? A search in folders? A sorting by num of photos?

Hmmm, at best a collapsible/expandable hierarchy with the possibility to show/hide all sub-items.

At the very least to be able to activate/deactivate all eye symbols.

Is there a way you can trigger the android media indexing? It's unfortunately not as transparent as the direct file access. You sometimes take pictures, but it takes a while until it appears eg in Locus, Google Photos etc...

I second those requests. Now that the track gallery is gone, I went back to geotagged photos, wanted to display my pictures from the day. First problem: Folder not listed -> no way to trigger update of list for new pictures. Then, as Tapio said, at least add (Un)Select All, and either nested hierarchy or text search. My list of folder is also far too long to use here.

@Menion, sorry to ask this again, but I think it got lost in thread for last version: Do you think it makes sense and is possible to change the sizes of highlighted and not highlighted LoPoints separately? I find the highlighted much too big in comparison, but can only make them smaller for the price of making the non-highlighted minuscule.

And a similar problem:
In the Expert Settings, you can change the text sizes for "Dynamic Elevation", "Cursor to GPS", "Time Circles", and "Distance Circles" - but not for the "Auxiliary lines". I use that for measuring distances with two-finger-tap, but the number is so small that's it's barely readable, especially on the road and depending on map background.

Hi everyone!
I've been using the Web Portal again after a long time and noticed an annoying problem: In Locus, I use custom icons from my own ZIPs. I know they're not synced (so I need the same ZIPs on all my devices), but in Web Portal, they're not even replaced by a default icon, but by the text (!) "Marker" or "Icon" (dunno why that's different sometimes).
Could you please change this to use a plain POI icon when custom icon not available?

Similar thing happens with the folder: The ones with custom icon get the folder name instead (see screenshot).

I have now installed the new V 4.31.0 on my old Galaxy S7.
No track gallery here either. 

Can confirm.

Happy that the problem with the clickpoint of LoPoints is solved - also didn't think of the map magnification being a possible reason.

However, I find the highlighted LoPoints overwhelmingly big - at least 3x as high and double the width. Unfortunately, the size setting changes both highlighted and unhighlighted at the same time.
Menion, would it be possible to get separate selectors for both point icon sizes?

And while we're at point sizes: Could you add those settings to the presets? I think it makes a lot of sense, e.g. I have a biking profile/preset, where I of course want big icons, but also one for exporting track images, where I want the icons more subdued, leaving space for the tracks themselves. And as I can set the map magnification, it makes total sense to be able to adjust icons sizes, don't you think?

I think this case is too rare for us to include it in presets. Aber du könntest einen Vorschlag im Helpdesk machen. Vielleicht gibt es noch mehr die das wollen und können dafür Voten.
You could reduce the size before exporting and then increase it again afterwards.
If you mainly care about the route, you could hide the LoPoi before exporting.

Yeah, good point about the helpdesk.

But the fixed size relation between highlighted points and unhighlighted, that is imho rather straight-forward oversight...

Happy that the problem with the clickpoint of LoPoints is solved - also didn't think of the map magnification being a possible reason.

However, I find the highlighted LoPoints overwhelmingly big - at least 3x as high and double the width. Unfortunately, the size setting changes both highlighted and unhighlighted at the same time.
Menion, would it be possible to get separate selectors for both point icon sizes?

And while we're at point sizes: Could you add those settings to the presets? I think it makes a lot of sense, e.g. I have a biking profile/preset, where I of course want big icons, but also one for exporting track images, where I want the icons more subdued, leaving space for the tracks themselves. And as I can set the map magnification, it makes total sense to be able to adjust icons sizes, don't you think?