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Well Menion, you know that I already started to do some CMS graphics, but it's complete different from my CMS which I did for TrekBuddy. Therefore it will take some time.     And with CMS development you're so fast... too fast... for me...  :lol: Your next release will be there and I'm still playing around with the layout...  :lol:

But... you did already a lot of work to add CMS feature and you're on the right way, exactly what is needed for a great CMS!  

You want to add scripting language? Is HECL available for android too?

Yes, stats from the compass screen... sats in view, used sats, sat fix, signal strength from all possible sats, pdop, hdop, vdop... just everything which is possible so that all kind of CMS could be made  

Hi Menion!

Just kidding... because you said that the work for CMS would take some time and would not be as fast as we wish... The variables which you already have done are really great  :shock: . There is not much more possible, maybe for gps...  :lol:

So I think I'm very slow. Still need some time to figure out how to do some XML on android to create nice CMS.
By the way, is it possible to use different fonts in CMS? What fonts can be used? External fonts too or from the phone/android only?

Hmm... is it possible to get average variables without track recording? Well, if it's too much work it's ok too...

Because of all the needs it is better to separate value und unit into two parts. All the different display resolutions are very difficult to handle. That's the reason why I would like to see the background feature as soon as possible. So, different CMS can be designed for all the resolutions by users. The background contains all the graphic data and the user has only to make an XML which puts the variables (without units) on the right place...

And additionally I would add these line which I posted already, where the user can set 4 variables on the map screen. The user can only select which of the variables (you offer them) should be placed on which place. So that it will work with every resolution...

EDIT:  For the decimal thing... I think this is only interesting for speed. I would do all speed variables twice because sometimes it's better with decimals and sometimes without... so how about  {speed} and {speed_int} or something like this?

Hi Menion!

Let's start...

Useful variables:

speed, speed max, speed average, speed indicator which shows whether you're faster or slower than average speed
distance travelled, distance to next waypoint
time travelled
altitude, altitude min, altitude max, altitude up, altitude down
lat, lon, lat waypoint, lon waypoint

Can you please tell how the variables are set up?

Example {speed}:

Is the value integer (ie 25) or with decimals (ie 25.4)?
Is the unit shown too (ie 25.4 km/h)?
The range of the variable...

I would like to see one feature, maybe it's already there...  :?:
Is it possible to use a background (png) for the CMS?
If not, please... add it... With a background picture you can make much better CMS designs in an easy way...  


I will check your HowTo later today...  

Hi Menion!

Well, I did the CMS in TrekBuddy (XML) and there was also HECL possible. HECL is a kind of interpreter where some calculation in the CMS by user is possible. I started with the developer the HECL programming in CMS  

With android I have no experience, but maybe I can help you nevertheless.  
I think the best solution would be some user defined "widgets" on mapscreen and an own CMS screen. Wow... that's it...  8-)

Hi Menion!

I'm still testing the offline search and I found out that the result could be optimized through the used feature codes  .

The 8th field in the .txt data file is the feature code. This code describes the kind of result:

ADM1, ADM2, ADM3, ADM4, ADMD, PPL:   should be used for the city names / place names (and only these 6)
AIRP:  search for airport
RSTN: search for railroad station
HTL: search for hotel

It would be absolute funtastic if you could add a selection box where all these 4 major things could be selected. By default only "city name" should be on.
The above 4 lines can be selected to on or off. If "all" is selected, then the above 4 are all "off" and the search will be done without the use of the feature codes.

i.e.

(o)  city name / place name
(  )  airport
(  )  railroad station
(  )  hotel
-----------------------------------
(  )  all


Menion, what do you think about this?    

Additionally to an own cms screen, some variables would be needed to see them together with the map. How about one line with 4 fields, which can userdefined be set?

@Menion
Any chance to add this?  

Hmmm... that's the point why I asked about the checkbox. When I just set the ckeckbox, nothing happens. The map can only be moved through the map dialog...  

Hi Menion, I'll try it...
Well, I already saw this big file, but I don't think that this makes much sense. Nobody needs the whole world all the time...

Searching a city does work and the list which shows the distance of all results is exactly what is needed. But... when I select the name nothing happens and the map position is still the same... Oh, checked... you have to select the name and not the checkbox. But why are there checkboxes after each name?

Is it possible to show the capital letters of the city names? In the .txt files there are the names with a capital letter at the beginning.

When selecting the search button then Locus switches several times from full screen to not full screen and back to full screen which should be used...

GeoName search works already quite good !!

Great... waiting for release, because I must stay at home (sick)  8-)

Wow, great news!
I just opened such a GeoName file with OpenOffice. Looks like a excel sheet... I searched for a city and found several entries because citynames are often the same in a country. Maybe you can show all the results in a window, sorted next to the actual location. This would be funtastic!

Hi Menion! Well, I would do this at once, but unfortunately I've no skills in programming anymore... 30 years ago I was always busy with programming.... It would be really great if you could try this. Don't worry about the speed. If the offline search takes some time, it doesn't matter because you need the search only for a short moment to move the map to another destination. No background task or something like this is needed...

PUSH...  

I'm stil hoping to see this offline search in Locus because again and again, we're searching for a city on a trip and every time we scroll the (TOPO) map around to find it...  

Would it be possible to write an addon for Locus which can do this?

Hmm... it's quite different whether I move the saved map from my SD-card or the cached online map. The online map moves very smooth but the saved map a bit choppy... Is the cached map on SD-card too? I think so... Really wired...