New Code Contribution

[deniska]

What if somebody wants to help with the coding.
Deniska are you thinking to expand the pool of developers?
I was already thinking about adding sound capability, more towards alert messages than music at least at the beginning.
Something like "Connection Lost" or "GPS Activated".

What do you guys think?

Sounds great..
If you think, you are up to the task - just grep the most recent version of the code (should be attached to this thread), make adjustments and post the files that you changed.


Make sure that:
-you do some basic testing of your new additions as well as overall functionality
-you put some comments (with your name/initials) in the plases where you change the code with brief descriptions of what you are trying to achieve by this change...

[mmedina]

Great, really great application!

I live in Japan and I tried last version with PSP-290.

I used 2.71 and 3.03 FW version of the prx files. It works sometimes and it does not some others. The arrow keeps moving (like trembling) almost all the time, and sometimes when I zoom out, PSP freezes and dies. The curious part of this is that the system says I don't have tiles for some parts of the shown map, but I do have them, and it had worked perfectly some other times.

I tried using 3.10 prx files. Although MapThis! starts correctly, PSP freezes and dies. That's why I decided to stick to the previous files.

Maybe those are things already reported by someone else, but anyway I wanted to report them I'll keep trying this application whenever I go to the big city (Fukuoka, 1 hour driving) to test the 425 MB I made for it.

Keep the good work!

[skiingdomo]

Hi

Major problem guys. have tried 3.03 and 2.71 prx files.

Have TA-082 psp, and have tried with 3.03 OE C and 3.10 OE software.

My GPS-290 comes up as in the off state. Map This doesnt detect it. The Green prog crashes / just shows loading USB GPS.

Has anyone had this problem? know a fix?

[leaod]

I'd like to patch most noticable bugs, make the version a bit more stable and call it 0.5

After that.. I don't know yet.. perhaps:
Internationalization of the text/headers
Some sound support
Perhaps, some additional trip computer features, like Top speed alert, etc..
Some changes to interface - to make it more intuitive..

Deniska;
Please let me know wich changes are you thinking about and I could help you

[ITA_Bruto]

I'll give it a try on the week-end I'll keep you guys posted.

[whilis]

Hello to all the forum.
Deniska, MIB.42_5, Thank you very much by yours I magnify work.
First of all I request excuses by my terrible English, I am of Barcelona, Spain.

I use firmware 3.10 OE-A', with prx of 3.10 crypteds (decrypteds I obtain results such).
The version of Mapthis is the 0.498.

Based on the tests that I have made to Mapthis, I have a series of doubts that comment next:

- YOU HANG RANDOM OF THE PSP:
When opening maps, making zoom lens, to visualize pois, or simply without touching nothing.

- CIRCLE RED DISCONTINUOUS ON CURSOR:
That means?

- WARNINGDISTANCE in config.txt:
Important for my, WARNINGDISTANCE does not produce any effect, independent of the inserted value,
always shows the warnings, when the cursor is positioned on the icon of poi.
Because it does not work to me?

If the warnings of pois are not noticed in advance, it does not have much utility if audio utility is incorporated to the warnings.

- VISUALIZATION OF POIs
I know that it limits this in 400 registries.
I have created a file with about 300 different registries and about 20 icons.
When visualizing them, registries are lost and others are visualized with the mistaken icon.
Reducing number such of registries to half with 20 icons, they are visualized correctly.
Reducing the icons to 3 and maintaining the 300 registries, also they are visualized correctly.
That relation exists maximum registries and icons?


SUGGESTIONS FOR FUTURE VERSIONS:
- In GPS mode, possibility of invert the bar of information of data to left side.

In Barcelona we lead from the left seat of the car and if you in center have the PSP of the car, is difficult her reading

- When visualizing the menu, The default option selected is speed 330. Serious but useful any other, like for example GPS info, or to load pois.

- Sounds mp3 to each icon of poi.
- Sound of fixation of satellite and lost of fixation of satellite.
- Sounds different for each option from the noticeable menu (not selected), nonserious thus essential to watch the screen while you move by the menus.
For example, you press key start (menu), sound or sample saying "Select option", if the cursor you position on GPS info, sound or sample
saying "information of connection GPS", etc, etc.

As if outside for blind people, since theoretically when you are driving not to clear your look of the highway.
Also serious very I practice a sound type click-click of pulsation of keys.

- Serious very useful that with the GoogleMapsDownLoad you could create pois on your map, with simple click of the mouse, so we ourself
to make our own routes, since those that make the program automatically not always adjusts to our necessities.


Good this is everything, I hope that it is not very difficult to you to interpret all this text.

Thanks to all and in special to Deniska and MIB.42_5 for your great work and disinterested dedication.


A greeting to all the forum

[Codaz]

Hmm some points of what you are saying are also my experiences. POI's still aren't displayed correctly.
Sounds is a hassle, because it increases the size of the program a lot !
Warningdistance doesn't work - agreed.

For the last option - make poi's by just clicking on the map, that is a question for In7ane, as he develops Google Map Download software.

And, now i now why my poi's arent displayed, i have over 3000 gas stations in my poi, but 400 is the limit !

[vitalik5k]

excuse me for question (but i can't list 82 pages). I have GPS-290, 3.10 OE A2 firmware. Should i use 2.71 usbacc.prx and 3.03 usbgps.prx (as described in FAQ)? Is there any .prx for 3.10 or 2.71 is OK? What are best? Should i just download them or i need to make them by myself (if they are aqquired to my device)? Thanks

[deniska]

- YOU HANG RANDOM OF THE PSP:
When opening maps, making zoom lens, to visualize pois, or simply without touching nothing.

- CIRCLE RED DISCONTINUOUS ON CURSOR:
That means?

- WARNINGDISTANCE in config.txt:
Important for my, WARNINGDISTANCE does not produce any effect, independent of the inserted value,
always shows the warnings, when the cursor is positioned on the icon of poi.
Because it does not work to me?

If the warnings of pois are not noticed in advance, it does not have much utility if audio utility is incorporated to the warnings.

- VISUALIZATION OF POIs
I know that it limits this in 400 registries.
I have created a file with about 300 different registries and about 20 icons.
When visualizing them, registries are lost and others are visualized with the mistaken icon.
Reducing number such of registries to half with 20 icons, they are visualized correctly.
Reducing the icons to 3 and maintaining the 300 registries, also they are visualized correctly.
That relation exists maximum registries and icons?


SUGGESTIONS FOR FUTURE VERSIONS:
- In GPS mode, possibility of invert the bar of information of data to left side.

In Barcelona we lead from the left seat of the car and if you in center have the PSP of the car, is difficult her reading

- When visualizing the menu, The default option selected is speed 330. Serious but useful any other, like for example GPS info, or to load pois.

- Sounds mp3 to each icon of poi.
- Sound of fixation of satellite and lost of fixation of satellite.
- Sounds different for each option from the noticeable menu (not selected), nonserious thus essential to watch the screen while you move by the menus.
For example, you press key start (menu), sound or sample saying "Select option", if the cursor you position on GPS info, sound or sample
saying "information of connection GPS", etc, etc.

As if outside for blind people, since theoretically when you are driving not to clear your look of the highway.
Also serious very I practice a sound type click-click of pulsation of keys.

- Serious very useful that with the GoogleMapsDownLoad you could create pois on your map, with simple click of the mouse, so we ourself
to make our own routes, since those that make the program automatically not always adjusts to our necessities.


Good this is everything, I hope that it is not very difficult to you to interpret all this text.

Thanks to all and in special to Deniska and MIB.42_5 for your great work and disinterested dedication.


A greeting to all the forum

Random crashes somehow seem to be related to 3.xx kernel since they never happen in 1.5 kernel version. We are looking in to it...

Red circle - suggests the level of accuracy of current measurements and depends on accuracy of current sattelite data (namely HDOP value)

WARNING distance is used in WAYPOINT mode (for routing) the greater the value - the earlier the next waypoint is "noticed".. Setting extremely large values may not work well though, since it may be "grabbing" incorrect waypoints in some cases...

You cannot use more then 10 poi icons per POI file. The POI file can have more than 400 entries in it.. (I tried files with ~ 20000 entries), but only up to 400 closest entries is displayed on screen...

We are looking at implementing basic sound support, etc...

[deniska]

excuse me for question (but i can't list 82 pages). I have GPS-290, 3.10 OE A2 firmware. Should i use 2.71 usbacc.prx and 3.03 usbgps.prx (as described in FAQ)? Is there any .prx for 3.10 or 2.71 is OK? What are best? Should i just download them or i need to make them by myself (if they are aqquired to my device)? Thanks

You should not post general installation questions in dev threads...
IMHO, you should use the latest version prx files... and it's best if you extract them from your own FW version...