New Waypoint Properties Implementation

[nohal]

Tore...
Are your current layer GPX files available somewhere for download to have a look? That a layer gets loaded does not necessarily mean that any objects are found in it. I have to confess I got a bit lost during your migration to Google Drive recently

Pavel

[sinbad7]

Here is a part log file for a session today if anybody can find some clues here.

Tore

[sinbad7]

Pavel..

PM me with your email address and you will have access to all my POI´s on the ´cloud drive´. (Sorry,it´s the way the Google Drive is accessed.)

Looking at the POI´s in my ProgramData/opencpn/ directory with Notepad,all the required data is there and each file shows it´s size. None are empty.
I have attached the NORWEGIAN POI´S file for your inspection.

Thanks

Tore

[cagney]

Originally Posted by sinbad7

Having checked the opencpn log file,every time I have started OCPN today,the following layers were loaded as per the logs:
8:45:31 AM: Getting .gpx layer files from: C:\ProgramData\opencpn\layers
8:45:31 AM: New layer 1: BRAZIL-POIS
8:45:31 AM: New layer 2: East_Mediterranean
8:45:32 AM: New layer 3: Marine.Poi
8:45:32 AM: New layer 4: NORWEGIAN POIS
8:45:32 AM: New layer 5: N_Europe
8:45:32 AM: New layer 6: The World
8:45:32 AM: New layer 7: UK POIS
8:45:32 AM: New layer 8: USA
8:45:32 AM: New layer 9: West Caribbean
8:45:32 AM: New layer 10: WX_WORLD

Problem is,only a few of them loaded although the originals are perfect?

Tore

Tore
Upload one of your "perfect" layers, we can check it. No other way to know what's going on.
Thomas

[HappySeagull]

Tore, just passing thru but the "NORWEGIAN POIS.gpx " I downloaded didn't show up at all, in O here. UNTIL I ADDED :

</wpt>

to the last one at the bottom.... every thing must be perfectly "closed", so check that.

[sinbad7]

Sorry all..

There were actually small links missing in the chains. The same for the POI files I have uploaded to both my 4share as well as Google drive. I will correct all the uploads..

Luckily I had all correct POI files on my laptop which I have copied over.

Thanks foir suggestions and help all.

Tore

[sinbad7]

Pavel..

In the new version of OpenCPN I can not activate a local command contained in a POI.
For example: C:\INSTALLED PROGRAMS\TRIP PLANNING\qtVlm.exe
Any idea how to overcom this?

Tore

[nohal]

Tore...
This has nothing to do with OpenCPN, this behavior is dependent on your system configuration, we just tell it: "Do whatever you are configured to do with XXX"

Pavel

[sinbad7]

Pavel..

I am sorry but I am not with you there.. surely a link in a POI should activate whether it is a URL or a local command? If I am not mistaken I think it did so in previous versions.

If you know SpotWalla, it also has the option to input POI´s along the route,either as an internet URL or a local command,it even plays local videos... and I did not make any special alterations in my systems configuration.

So you are saying there is no way around this? It can´t be done?

Tore

[nohal]

Tore...
What I say is that I certainly am not going to implement anything else than a standard way of asking the OS to do whatever it is configured to do. The way around your problems is setting your OS correctly, not rewriting OpenCPN.

Pavel

[sinbad7]

Pavel..

It would have been more helpful to all if you had just told me this is the way to do it when you wish to evoke a local command from a POI: file:/C:/Program Files/4shared Desktop/desktop.exe

Now I can start the Route planner from within OpenCPN from a POI and display both pages side by side.

Tore

[HappySeagull]

Tore, I think what Pavel was saying, is that a file might be "associated" with an executable...as in linking to a "pdf" file will start adobe acrobat or whatever which will in turn open the file to see... This "associating" is a function of the operating system and needs to be working properly ahead of time for a link to a file to work.

That said, linking to executables also seems to work ok fine on xp if I just browse to em with Pavel's GUI....true, the slashes go forward "/" (html fashion) and not backward "\" (dos-windows command-line fashion) which is an oddment that needs remembering if you are typing it in..