[Merkaartor] WinCE version

[Peter Conrad]

I just tried the CAB on an iPAQ with Windows Mobile 6.
On the very first start, Merkaartor crashed when opening a GPX file 
(about 500 trackpoints). I had to reset the device. I thought the crash 
was due to the portrait screen resolution, so I toggled to wide format 
(should be 640x480 then). This time loading the track worked and I saw 
it on a pretty blank screen (no tool bar, no menus). Pushing the map 
around was no issue, but where is the zoom? Do I really have to go to 
menu -> view -> zoom in?
Then I downloaded some data for that track. It showed up pretty good, 
but selecting a road is a pain. Now for the road properties: go to 
window -> docks -> toggle properties and the propoperties dock appeared 
containing correct data but it covered the entire screen, no ok button 
visible, I had to use the ok hard key on the device to get rid of it.
The preferences menu is way too wide. The ok and close button is 
invisible and only accessible if you push the window to the left. The 
tab entries looked good, though. BTW: I don't understand why the 
preferences dialog in the "big" Windows version displays the tabs in a 
single row letting me scroll to see the last tab while I'm sitting in 
front of a pretty large display ;-). Isn't there a way to have multi row 
tabs? This would probably solve the issue for CE, too.
The program crashed a second time while fiddeling around with the 
properties dock. The screen just went blank white.
And it just crashed again after trying to open the layer dock. :-(
I even tried to draw an new road. Well, I had a delay of about one 
second between click and draw and the distance measurement always showed 
0 meters. And I didn't find a way to leave road creation mode...
Oh, an another note regarding the UI: the toolbar buttons are way too 
large for a mobile device (either text or icon should do). A Zoom In / 
Zoom Out button in the toolbar would be helpful for the mobile version, 
too.
Anyway: it basically worked on this device, but I think it is pretty 
much unusable (hate to say so). But it looks pretty cool, though!

Regards,

Peter


Chris Browet wrote:
> Could anyone confirm or infirm, i.e. has somebody had success running 
> MerkaartorCE from the CAB?
>
> Obviously, on my device, it works, but it could be that some dll is 
> required, installed on my CE and not in the CAB.
>
> - Chris -
>
> 2008/10/16 Boris Cornet <BorisC at eunet.at <mailto:BorisC at eunet.at>>
>
>
>     I have just tried to run the Windows CE version on my FSC Pocket Loox
>     T830 running Windows Mobile 5 (v5.1.195)
>
>     The CAB installed without a problem, but when I tried to start the
>     program, I got a message that either a component is missing or there
>     is not enough memory. So I freed all memory and retried. This time
>     the 'program loading' indicator came up and lasted forever. The UI was
>     completely locked, however the OS was still up since ActiveSync was
>     sill working.
>     The only thing I could do to get the machine responsive again was a
>     cold boot (I took out the battery).
>
>     I understand that the current version is an alpha, so I was well
>     prepared for such things to happen, just wanted to let you know.
>
>     I very much look forward to Merkaartor for PocketPc, let me know if I
>     can help (I'm a rooky at C, but I love to design user interfaces)
>
>
>     --
>     CU,
>       Boris
>
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