Spinner trouble?

Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2003 9:02 pm

I have used spinner several time now and find that some of the Waypoinys are being changed from starting with GC**** to VC, MC, or whatever. Has anyone else had this happen to them? For next weeks .gpx packet I am having it zipped because I read that if you are having troubles with corrupt packets, this might help.

This shouldn't be a big deal for caches fairly close to home where I know what tha cache name is, but when I was down by Madison last weekend for the soccer tournement in Oregon (which my sons team almost won the U14 championship...lost in a shoot out

)I was having troubles since I didn't know what the closest cache was without major plucker digging.

Any comments?

Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2003 6:36 am

Taint broke, its a feature. Spinner is so powerful it can saw your arm off.
The MC, VC etc represent Multiples, Virtuals etc. This is all setup in the spinner.ini file. It gets a little thick but change that file to change the behavior.

An example waypoint on my GPS, thanks to spinner, is MC-FFFF-22 where I can see its a multiple, the ID and its difficulties at a glance. I would be using spinner even if I didnt use a PDA.

Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2003 6:46 am

Thanks Jeff! At least now I know whats happening.

quote:
Originally posted by jthorson:
Taint broke, its a feature. Spinner is so powerful it can saw your arm off.
The MC, VC etc represent Multiples, Virtuals etc. This is all setup in the spinner.ini file. It gets a little thick but change that file to change the behavior.

An example waypoint on my GPS, thanks to spinner, is MC-FFFF-22 where I can see its a multiple, the ID and its difficulties at a glance. I would be using spinner even if I didnt use a PDA.

Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2003 6:32 pm

The way I understand it:

GC%I will give normal waypoint name from Geocaching.com ie:GC46B6.

And %C%I will just replace the GC with a meaningful code ie:MC46B6.

I have it set to GC%I and still get the "meaningful code". Not that it is a bad thing, but not what I thought the output should have been.

quote:
Originally posted by jthorson:
Taint broke, its a feature. Spinner is so powerful it can saw your arm off.
The MC, VC etc represent Multiples, Virtuals etc. This is all setup in the spinner.ini file. It gets a little thick but change that file to change the behavior.

An example waypoint on my GPS, thanks to spinner, is MC-FFFF-22 where I can see its a multiple, the ID and its difficulties at a glance. I would be using spinner even if I didnt use a PDA.

Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2003 3:54 am

Just to be sure, we are talking about a line in the -GPS Spinner.ini- file in your spinner directory.

Your line looks like:
Waypoint_Format = GC%I

I would expect all your names to now be GCxxxx, regardless of type, just like online.

As another example mine looks like:
Waypoint_Format = %I-%N-%d%t

Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2003 12:11 pm

I didn't know there was an .ini file stored on my computer. I thought by changing the settings on the Classic Spinner web page, things would be changed when spun. I found the file and edited. Thanks Jeff!

quote:
Originally posted by jthorson:
Just to be sure, we are talking about a line in the -GPS Spinner.ini- file in your spinner directory.

Your line looks like:
Waypoint_Format = GC%I

I would expect all your names to now be GCxxxx, regardless of type, just like online.

As another example mine looks like:
Waypoint_Format = %I-%N-%d%t