Bug report for v0.10 (I know, I'm behind and so this may not apply)

Put the empeg in the car, turn the car to accessory. Allow the empeg to boot, then run GPSApp from Hijack. GPS app sits at the waiting for GPS screen (since I don't have the GPS wired up in the car yet). Start the car, empeg goes into low power mode for a second, comes back up to the player app. Hold down knob for hijack, GPSApp is not in the list.

Not sure if it's crashing during the powerfail or what is happening.

I know I reported it at the time. I should try again with v300 hijack and modern gpsapp and confirm it's gone.

I had a similar thing happen on 0.14 this morning, and without any ignition on/off intervention.

GPSapp was tracking my progress on the selected route. But I exited out of GPSapp for a while (GPSapp still runs I think, just doesn't grab the screen). I went back into GPSapp and it was still tracking correctly with the right map, but twiddling the knob to change waypoints did not work. It was almost like the processor was busy doing something more important than responding to my knob commands. So I exited out of GPSapp and tried to go back in again and it was gone.

No it's not gone, and it is not a gpsapp problem. There are some cases where hijack 'forgets' there is a userland application running. My guess is that the application restarts, or hijack tries to popup some message and the redirections are removed.

You'll notice that whenever you enter the hijack menu, gpsapp 'ghosts' through for a second, it is still running fine and trying to update the screen and listen for buttonpresses that are not redirected anymore.

That sound like something completely different. I've noticed stalls when returning to gpsapp. I still have to put vmstat on my player to that I can check my theory. I'm guessing gpsapp is paged out because the player is trying to use all available memory so every memory access causes a pagefault and it takes a while before the gpsapp is considered more active than the player.

You'll notice that whenever you enter the hijack menu, gpsapp 'ghosts' through for a second, it is still running fine and trying to update the screen and listen for buttonpresses that are not redirected anymore.

Yes, you are right, that is exactly the behavior I had this morning.

It's the first time it's happened to me, though, so it's not a very common bug.

Paged out to where? There's no swap space active when in the car.

Clean code pages are removed as a result of memory pressure as they can be faulted back in from the executable file. I explicitly didn't say swapped out which is what happens to dirty pages and anonymous memory. The fact that the disks spin up when returning to gpsapp is kind of a giveaway, the program only accesses the disk before it even binds to the hijack menu and when loading a new route.

Good point.

Can someone please help me with the python script as I know nothing about it? I need a complete walkthrough after installation. I currently have the newest version of ActiveState Python and a downloaded htm file for the route. I need to know how to get the parse_mapsonus.py file to work because all I get is:
File "<stdin>", line1
python parse_mapsonus.py test.htm

SyntaxError: invalid syntax

There is a carat underneath the last s on mapsonus. I am running Win2k.
Thanks in advance,
Justin

I had the same problem, make sure you have both the "parse_mapsonus.py" and "convert.py" in the same directory....

Tried that but, still no dice.

I never run windows, so I don't really know what I'm talking about here. But maybe it doesn't like the unix end-of-line characters?

Sorry I forgot to post. I tried it under cygwin (I downloaded python for it) and it worked, so good news for me, and another good use for cygwin for windows users.