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JJnTJ
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Joined: 23 Aug 2010
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 Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2011 8:27 am Post subject: GSAK: put a "winter friendly" icon on your 60CSx |
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I really like my 60CSx. But the waypoints don't leave a lot of room for important information.
With a couple of custom macros, I added "winter friendliness" and "days since last found" to my 60CSx:
The left image shows the list of caches (using the GSAK "Smart Name"), with a single letter for the cache type at the end. "M"= Multi, "U"= Unknown, "T"= Traditional, etc.
The right image shows the cache details:
GC1KW4D: GC code
M: Micro (U = unknown, S = small, L = large, etc.)
A/1: (1.5 difficulty, 1 terrain)
*: "Available in winter" attribute is present. ("-" means not available, "?" means neither icon present)
FFFF(2): Last four logs are "found it", and it was found 2 days ago (2 days from when it was downloaded into the GPSr from GSAK)
This usually gives me enough to go on.
If this is the kind of information you'd like on your 60CSx (or many of the older Garmins), here's what you do:
1) Copy the text from here to Notepad, and save it as "winterfriendly.txt":
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$_Sql = "select ainc from attributes where aCode = " + SQLQuote($d_code) + " and aID = '15'"
$available = Sqlite("sql",$_sql)
BeginCase
Case $available = "1"
# Do whatever you want to do if cache is available in winter
$_Special = "*"
Case $available = "0"
# Do whatever you want to do if cache is NOT available in winter
$_Special = "-"
OtherWise
# aID not present (owner has not selected winter availabilty attribute)
$_Special = "?"
EndCase
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2) then copy this text to Notepad, and save as "days_since_last_found.txt":
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IF $d_LastFoundDate=[00000000]
$_Special = "NF"
ELSE
$Date=$d_LastFoundDate
$Days=NumToStr(DateDiff($Date,$_Today))
$_Special = $Days
ENDIF
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3) Then move or copy both of those files into:
C:\Users\__your_account_name_here__\AppData\Roaming\gsak\Macros (Windows 7)
C:\Documents and Settings\__your_account_name_here__\AppData\GSAK\Macros (Windows XP. I think. This might be wrong)
4) change your GPSr export screen to this:
The full text of the "Waypoint description format" looks like this:
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| %code %con1 %dif1a/%ter1a %macro="winterfriendly.txt" %last4(%mtag="days_since_last_found.txt") |
"Maximum Characters" should be 14 for the 60-series Garmins. This is the amount of characters in the first screenshot above. You should also change the "smart name" length in GSAK at Tools->Options->Smart Name->Length to 12. This ensures that you have enough room to get a space followed by a single-letter cache type, just like the screenshot above.
After these changes, you will notice that it takes a little bit longer to download caches to the GPSr. This is because it has to run the two macros before exporting. There is a more elegant way to do this, but it hasn't been a big enough problem for me to do it yet. |
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sir_zman
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Joined: 30 Jun 2005
Posts: 1725
Location: Twin Cities
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| Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2011 11:08 am Post subject: |
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| awesome write up, thanks for the info. |
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team_geomonkey
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Joined: 07 Dec 2009
Posts: 131
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| Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2011 8:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks!! I'm a newbie to GSAK and have only been using the basic macros -- this really explains the benefits of what this program can do! Can't wait to try it out. |
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sigilwig44
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Joined: 31 Mar 2011
Posts: 332
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| Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2011 9:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Hey! This'd be great on the home page. I'd E-mail it to PH. |
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