Gpsdrive on iPAQ
[email protected] (Andrew M. Bishop)
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Even though gpsdrive has been written with a PDA mode in mind there are a number of problems with it that I found annoying. This was mainly due to the fact that it is slow on iPAQs due to the amount of floating point maths that it performs. The user interface also doesn't really fit on to the screen well with the status tab in particular being unreadable in places. The program also contains a large amount of options which don't make sense on a PDA. Eventually these problems became too much for me so I tackled the gpsdrive source code and removed or fixed what I saw as the problems with the PDA mode as well as adding some new features. The program now uses a lot less CPU time (far fewer floating point operations), consumes less memory (executable size is halved) and is easier to use (GUI spread across more tabs). (Since I made these changes a new version of gpsdrive has been released. I have not tried this in PDA mode, but it doesn't claim to solve any of these problems.) Since this is a GPL program and other people may also want to try out my improvements I have made them available at the address below. There is original source code, modified source code and a familiar ipkg compiled with Familiar 0.8.4 on my 3800 series iPAQ. http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/gpsdrive-ipaq/ -- Andrew. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew M. Bishop [email protected] http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/ _______________________________________________ The Familiar Linux Distribution Familiar mailing list [email protected] https://handhelds.org/mailman/listinfo/familiar irc://irc.freenode.net #familiar