What is going on...

I am rewriting the GPX load support...
Its taking some time, unfortunately, since i hit a couple of other problem that i am fixing too...

So stay tuned...

Post Easter update...

Hi All!
even if i did not update this blog all over the Easter break, development is proceeding. I am in the final stages of redefining the Live Track page and a new layout for TrackAway which will make things simpler and easier to access.

Live Tracks now support "legs", so you can split your track in separate sections, each one with its length and (in the future) statistical data. The new Live Track now support autosave and multiple legs.

I have also redesigned a bit the UI approach. Now there is not anymore a "selectior" dialog where all the buttons are located. On the botton of the screen there are five buttons to access the five main areas:
- GPS page
- Live Track
- Track list
- Map manager
- System buttons (screen orientation, quit, minimize...)

The buttons will be "live" so they show tracking status / gps status like today.

This is coming up much more tidier and easy to access.

Give me some more time to work on refining things... Also i need to implement support for full GPX format. After that, i will release a new TP 0.0.2 which will be, at least, usable but without maps.

Stay tuned... my guess is this release should be sometime before 16 May.

I am back in support mode...

So FreeTrack 1.3.30 might as well be released by this week (if tests are ok, it will be released on the 21/04/2011), i hope!

What is puzzling me is the "open load map/track" on screen rotate. Right now i cannot pinpoint the source for that... It seems that some extra slots gets called on screen rotation, but why? Some on-device test is mandatory here...

Got it!
Under some circumstances i did not "delete" the loadmap/loadtrack dialog box, which lingered in the back of the application... popping up when the screen is rotated! Now its fixed.

What more... i have also fixed the "aligned points" bug when using calibrated maps having all the three points on a line...

This is going to be quite some new release!!!

As an update... i was quite pissed off by having ALL the map cache showing up on my image gallery... so 1.3.30 will rename all "jpg" chunks to "ftc", so they are not picked up by the image gallery. Dont worry, you "old" cache is still good... If you rescan it, it will be "renamed" to the new cache, otherwise everything will just work...

News...

Not much work today... except that i hope i was able to greatly improve speed on Symbian^3 devices...

Stay tuned for tomorrow...

Progress...

Progress is fun...
Compass seems to be working properly (on phones which HAVE a compass)...
and the new satellite map&list is quite cool!

I am improving the controls, which is needed, specially to properly support all kinds of themes.

Stay tuned!!!

Ok, finally the new 1.3.28 has been published, both supporter and free. It was about time! What was slowing it down was the C7 Astround, which apparently DOES NOT SUPPORT Qt CONTENT.

And how on earth am i supposed to know since its a C7 device?

Well, anyway...

On the development side i added support for Compass... and finaly created the hg repository for TrackAway!

Check it out at:

hg.trackaway.org/index.cgi/trackaway i will commit before evening...

Status update...

I wanted to give you some updates.

1- OVI Store: magically somehow the Supporter China edition has been published. Its a mistery, since i just resubmitted the exact same SIS that failed. Anyway. All the others are still waiting QA on the new C7 Astound device.

2- Localizations: Euskaria has been updated, so Simplified Chinese. So i will soon package a new chinese version to be published as soon as the "official" free version is published too.

3- Development: i am testing the new configuration setup, which is quite neat: more clear and better sorted. Next will be testing the "satellites" stuff and create a nice sat display widget...

Stay tuned!