Wow, I hope markskinner survived his night with MapPoint...
New version of the Master Script. A few more modules added.
- Roadnav support!
No longer is real time mapping limited to Microsoft MapPoint, now you have a choice. And since it has some preliminary support for OpenStreetMap, you're also not limited to the USA.
If you already have Roadnav 0.16 with cached maps, it can work, but I highly recommend getting 0.17 beta (it is scheduled for release on 2007-02-01). 0.17 has:- fix for icon filenames with "$" in them
- fix/retension for icon scaling
- greatly improved rendering performance
- and, of course, ability to download current TIGER maps (they'd switched from lowercase to uppercase).
If you plan to use Roadnav then I highly recommend also downloading and installing OstroSoft Winsock Component - the Roadnav scripting engine can execute one command at the command line, but using the Telnet interface is much faster and efficient. If there are free scriptable alternatives to OstroSoft Winsock Component that you'd like supported, post a URL to the API.
- Logger - recording and playback (no, not lumberjacks).
If you- don't have MapPoint working but want to do tracking later
- want to listen to the network names as a cure for insomnia
- are too slowed down by the existing modules (time spent executing modules may be time lost detecting networks, this does multithreading)
- want to run multiple instances while still supporting the modules you like
then this is for you. If you plan to use multiple instances then I highly recommend using the NetStumbler 0.4 Helper to store/use multiple configurations. Support specifically for multiple instances should go on the existing thread (unless it's a NetStumbler 0.4 Helper support issue, then it should go on the Helper's thread.
One other nice thing about the playback (simply run "ns04logger.vbs" at the command line) is that greatly improves module debugging/improving - no need to start NetStumbler each time if there's an error-causing log file available. It became very obvious that cp99's request for a UseGPS setting was pointless (or so I think - cp99 still hasn't replied).
- Status - support for LCD Smartie and others.
Inspired by supadave's code (please, no resurrecting the dead), I've added a module that writes a file with the current state that LCD Smartie (or perhaps Microsoft Windows SideShow). If you have your laptop in your backpack, you could run PalmOrb on your PalmOS-compatible PDA, like I did when I was taking a bus to training.
There is some information on doing something similiar with a PPC, if you're interested in this and can figure out how to write an XML file (or other file) that SideShow or whatever can use, post here and I can try to write something for it.
Why did I do this when the information is retrievable from the registry when UseDiGLE is enabled? LCD Smartie doesn't have native support for reading the registry but it does support reading files.
And of course there are the usual improvements with the possibility of having broken something.
Of course, any feedback is invited. If you're reporting a bug,
please see if you can reproduce it in both the latest version and the
penultimate version (so I'll know whether it's something I broke or something that might've always been broken). If you'd like something implemented (there are a bunch of other potentially scriptable programs mentioned in ns04settings.vbs:
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Future possibilities; might not ever be available; anything desired requires testing by volunteers
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so see the list for some examples), I'll need cooperation.
If you like what you see here, please
donate to marius. Donations might spur marius to add some additional scripting support.
I'm still at the forum's 5 attachments limit, so I've removed 2004-11-24 from the first posting after 973 "views". If anyone wants it (e.g. for comparing), I've attached it to this message.