DR Plugin - splitting up GPX route files

[Rasbats]

To avoid confusion I have started a new thread - DR construction using the Route Manager.

Mike

p.s. I am only hacking this stuff for my own education. But ... I do see a need for constructing DR positions along a route. And ... then I will be looking at the construction of EP positions using tidal current data! Looking being the operative word!

[rgleason]

What has happened to this plugin? Perhaps it can be updated/enhanced by someone?

[Rasbats]

Rick ...

GitHub has been updated and DR_pi now compiles standalone for O 4.1.925+. Cmake alone always found WxWidgets 2.8.12 so I needed to use Cmake-GUI, set for 3.0.2. Still not able to build an installer package.

Modified CMakeLists.txt using Pavel's work as a template.

Mike

[rgleason]

Great Mike. I'll git and give it a try! Thanks so much.

[rgleason]

Mike, It compiled successfully and I was able to package it.
I took a screenshot. I tried to put in a route name that actually exists and shows in Opencpn, and tell it to make a gpx with at 2 knots with 1 hour increments.
The plugin prompted for a name for a gpx file and then said it failed to load that file (?)

Have I got the process somewhat messed up here?

[Rasbats]

As it stands the DR plugin is editing gpx files that have been saved on your pc. The route name is the name of the route within the GPX file.

Use Route Manager to export the route GPX.
Open DR and set the parameters.
Using DR_pi (Generate) select the GPX you exported.
With the second file dialogue save the GPX+DR as a different GPX file.
Use Route Manager to import the route + DR positions.

Previous discussion centred on building this capacity into route manager. With the enhancements made to the API recently it may be possible to avoid all the file read/save business.

The logic behind creating DR positions over a multi-leg route may be a useful start for someone working on an OpenCPN-Draw DR solution.

Mike

[rgleason]

Thankyou Mike. I think I will put your Readme-Instruction above in a file.

Your observation that the code might be useful for creating DR positions over a multileg route might be useful in Opencpn-Draw is noted. Hope jon sees this. Can you explain your DR idea a little more completely? Thanks so much for your effort.

[rgleason]

Opencpn Beta File Thingie rguser rgpass
4.1.1022 PI Win directory
added DR_pi-0.1-ov4.1.1022-win32

For testing. It uses external routes in gpx.
First save an Opencpn route out to gps.
Then use it in the plugin.
This plugin was developed with an earlier API, so it can now be modified to use internal O routes...

[jongough]

Rick,
I have seen this and do have an idea of how to make it work in ocpn_draw_pi, however, I am currently trying to get exclusion/inclusion/none boundary code working and displaying so that this can then be used with the watchdog plugin. I think I will then have to do the watchdog plugin stuff so that it is usable. So I am afraid you will have to bear with me for a little while as I am slowly getting through the stuff and back up to speed after the cruise.

Can someone create a flyspray item for this?

Jon

Originally Posted by rgleason

Thankyou Mike. I think I will put your Readme-Instruction above in a file.

Your observation that the code might be useful for creating DR positions over a multileg route might be useful in Opencpn-Draw is noted. Hope jon sees this. Can you explain your DR idea a little more completely? Thanks so much for your effort.

[rgleason]

Thanks Jon, I totally understand and will post a tracker item so we keep the idea. I am glad you understand it.

[Rasbats]

There is a report of DR_pi not working with the Mac OS.

Would appreciate it if the compiler of DR_pi for Mac could confirm it runs ok with version 4.2 of OpenCPN for Mac.

Thanks.

Mike

[CarCode]

Originally Posted by Rasbats

There is a report of DR_pi not working with the Mac OS.

Would appreciate it if the compiler of DR_pi for Mac could confirm it runs ok with version 4.2 of OpenCPN for Mac.

Thanks.

Mike

Regarding the DR_pi file from http://opencpn.navnux.org/plugins/dr...Plugin_0.1.pkg it seems someone has forgotten to use the "install_name_tool" command when compiling. So this DR_pi looks at the wrong place for the wxWidgets libraries and does not start therefore.

Gerhard

[CarCode]

That is of course the easiest way to fix a problem.

Gerhard

[nohal]

Gerhard...
Thank you for discovering that the CDN takes time to synchronize the download endpoints, we wouldn't know that without your help.

Pavel

[Rasbats]

GitHub has been updated with a new version of DR_pi, for testing with OpenCPN 5.0.

DR_pi 2.1 now calculates DR positions for a multi-leg route.

A Windows release is available:

https://github.com/Rasbats/DR_pi/releases/tag/v2.1

TODO: Use SVG for icons.

Mike