XC-Soar PDA weirdness

[Brad[_2_]]

I have a question regarding XC-Soar and am running it on an iPAQ3850.
I loaded the latest version 5.2.3F.

When I first loaded the program everything worked as advertised,
except I've never seen the landable fields show up as colored dots,
well yesterday for one session they showed up as yellow dots, but not
anymore. Also the Visual Glide feature worked for awhile, and now does
not appear when activated. Also seems that the set up profile I am
constantly resetting does not hold after closing the program.

All in all I am flying with this latest release and am happy with it,
and the above mentioned items are more a curiosity than anything else,
but I am curious if it is my PDA ignorance, or is the program still
somewhat "buggy" I've also heard PDA's can be somewhat tempramental.

Thanks,
Brad

[David Salmon[_2_]]

Hi Brad
The profile save is a bit un-user friendly, I have recently suggested it
be changed.

What happens is that when you shut down, the current profile is saved as a
file called xcsoar registry.prf. If when you open the program again you
select this file when asked, then you should get exactly the same profile
as when you shut down. You can save this with another, more convenient
name by browsing to it on your SD card and re-naming it to whatever you
want, leaving the suffix as prf. If however, you already have another
profile saved and open that instead, you will get whatever that was, not
the changes.

Re the landable fields, go to Config-Setup system page 11 and the 3rd item
down gives a choice of WinPilot or Alternate. Win Pilot should give the
purple dot with the green ring. Incidentally, landable means a waypoint
with an A attribute that is reachable at safety height, nothing to do with
it's surface.

Dave



At 14:50 27 April 2009, Brad wrote:
>I have a question regarding XC-Soar and am running it on an iPAQ3850.
>I loaded the latest version 5.2.3F.
>
>When I first loaded the program everything worked as advertised,
>except I've never seen the landable fields show up as colored dots,
>well yesterday for one session they showed up as yellow dots, but not
>anymore. Also the Visual Glide feature worked for awhile, and now does
>not appear when activated. Also seems that the set up profile I am
>constantly resetting does not hold after closing the program.
>
>All in all I am flying with this latest release and am happy with it,
>and the above mentioned items are more a curiosity than anything else,
>but I am curious if it is my PDA ignorance, or is the program still
>somewhat "buggy" I've also heard PDA's can be somewhat tempramental.
>
>Thanks,
>Brad
>

[David Salmon[_2_]]

Hi Brad
The profile save is a bit un-user friendly, I have recently suggested it
be changed.

What happens is that when you shut down, the current profile is saved as a
file called xcsoar registry.prf. If when you open the program again you
select this file when asked, then you should get exactly the same profile
as when you shut down. You can save this with another, more convenient
name by browsing to it on your SD card and re-naming it to whatever you
want, leaving the suffix as prf. If however, you already have another
profile saved and open that instead, you will get whatever that was, not
the changes.

Re the landable fields, go to Config-Setup system page 11 and the 3rd item
down gives a choice of WinPilot or Alternate. Win Pilot should give the
purple dot with the green ring. Incidentally, landable means a waypoint
with an A attribute that is reachable at safety height, nothing to do with
it's surface.

Dave



At 14:50 27 April 2009, Brad wrote:
>I have a question regarding XC-Soar and am running it on an iPAQ3850.
>I loaded the latest version 5.2.3F.
>
>When I first loaded the program everything worked as advertised,
>except I've never seen the landable fields show up as colored dots,
>well yesterday for one session they showed up as yellow dots, but not
>anymore. Also the Visual Glide feature worked for awhile, and now does
>not appear when activated. Also seems that the set up profile I am
>constantly resetting does not hold after closing the program.
>
>All in all I am flying with this latest release and am happy with it,
>and the above mentioned items are more a curiosity than anything else,
>but I am curious if it is my PDA ignorance, or is the program still
>somewhat "buggy" I've also heard PDA's can be somewhat tempramental.
>
>Thanks,
>Brad
>

[Brad[_2_]]

On Apr 27, 9:15*am, David Salmon > wrote:
> Hi Brad
> The profile save is a bit un-user friendly, I have recently suggested it
> be changed.
>
> What happens is that when you shut down, the current profile is saved as a
> file called xcsoar registry.prf. If when you open the program again you
> select this file when asked, then you should get exactly the same profile
> as when you shut down. You can save this with another, more convenient
> name by browsing to it on your SD card and re-naming it to whatever you
> want, leaving the suffix as prf. If however, you already have another
> profile saved and open that instead, you will get whatever that was, not
> the changes.
>
> Re the landable fields, go to Config-Setup system page 11 and the 3rd item
> down gives a choice of WinPilot or Alternate. Win Pilot should give the
> purple dot with the green ring. Incidentally, landable means a waypoint
> with an A attribute that is reachable at safety height, nothing to do with
> it's surface.
>
> Dave
>
> At 14:50 27 April 2009, Brad wrote:
>
>
>
> >I have a question regarding XC-Soar and am running it on an iPAQ3850.
> >I loaded the latest version 5.2.3F.
>
> >When I first loaded the program everything worked as advertised,
> >except I've never seen the landable fields show up as colored dots,
> >well yesterday for one session they showed up as yellow dots, but not
> >anymore. Also the Visual Glide feature worked for awhile, and now does
> >not appear when activated. Also seems that the set up profile I am
> >constantly resetting does not hold after closing the program.
>
> >All in all I am flying with this latest release and am happy with it,
> >and the above mentioned items are more a curiosity than anything else,
> >but I am curious if it is my PDA ignorance, or is the program still
> >somewhat "buggy" I've also heard PDA's can be somewhat tempramental.
>
> >Thanks,
> >Brad- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Hi Dave,

thanks for the information. I changed to winpilot and got the purple
dots to show, also named a .prf file to read: my_profile.prf but when
I restart and select that file, the program still loads with the zoom
set to auto! no big deal, but it is one of those little things that us
ADD guys get all flipped out over when it doesn't work....:)

Cheers,
Brad

[Martin Gregorie[_4_]]

On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:50:39 -0700, Brad wrote:

>
> thanks for the information. I changed to winpilot and got the purple
> dots to show, also named a .prf file to read: my_profile.prf but when I
> restart and select that file, the program still loads with the zoom set
> to auto! no big deal, but it is one of those little things that us ADD
> guys get all flipped out over when it doesn't work....:)
>
I think you'll find that some items (auto zoom is one, whether the
display shows topo, terrain or both) can be overridden during a flight
but next start-up will revert to what you configured. The idea is that
what you configured is what you get when you boot it up as opposed to how
you left it last time. That works for me, but ymmv.


--
martin@ | Martin Gregorie
gregorie. | Essex, UK
org |

[PCool]

Thanks David for explaining.
But did the Visual Glide appear back ? ;-) I didn't code it to make it
invisible, you know ... hehe.

paolo



"Martin Gregorie" > ha scritto nel
messaggio ...
> On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:50:39 -0700, Brad wrote:
>
>>
>> thanks for the information. I changed to winpilot and got the purple
>> dots to show, also named a .prf file to read: my_profile.prf but when I
>> restart and select that file, the program still loads with the zoom set
>> to auto! no big deal, but it is one of those little things that us ADD
>> guys get all flipped out over when it doesn't work....:)
>>
> I think you'll find that some items (auto zoom is one, whether the
> display shows topo, terrain or both) can be overridden during a flight
> but next start-up will revert to what you configured. The idea is that
> what you configured is what you get when you boot it up as opposed to how
> you left it last time. That works for me, but ymmv.
>
>
> --
> martin@ | Martin Gregorie
> gregorie. | Essex, UK
> org |

[Brad[_2_]]

On Apr 28, 9:25*am, "PCool" > wrote:
> Thanks David for explaining.
> But did the Visual Glide appear back ? ;-) *I didn't code it to make it
> invisible, you know ... hehe.
>
> paolo
>
> "Martin Gregorie" > ha scritto nel
> .. .
>
>
>
> > On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:50:39 -0700, Brad wrote:
>
> >> thanks for the information. I changed to winpilot and got the purple
> >> dots to show, also named a .prf file to read: my_profile.prf but when I
> >> restart and select that file, the program still loads with the zoom set
> >> to auto! no big deal, but it is one of those little things that us ADD
> >> guys get all flipped out over when it doesn't work....:)
>
> > I think you'll find that some items (auto zoom is one, whether the
> > display shows topo, terrain or both) can be overridden during a flight
> > but next start-up will revert to what you configured. The idea is that
> > what you configured is what you get when you boot it up as opposed to how
> > you left it last time. That works for me, but ymmv.
>
> > --
> > martin@ * | Martin Gregorie
> > gregorie. | Essex, UK
> > org * * * |- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

nope, visual glide is back..............I replayed a flight on the PDA
and then tried Visual Glide, it shows up now.

thanks!
Brad

PS..........still don't seem to get the .prf file to hold the zoom
setting that I set, how exactly does one save a .prf file anyway? I
went in to the config menu and made some changes there, and then
saved, this was after I created a my_setup.prf file, hoping that what
ever changes I made would be saved to that file. Not so upon starting
XC soar and accessing my file.