NumberPicker for meters ?

Former Member
Former Member
Hi,

(Developing for Fenix 3)

I am trying to set up a NumberPicker to enter a distance in Meter. As in "how close do I have to be to a waypoint before it gives an alert".
I can't use NUMBER_PICKER_DISTANCE as that is Km. The other documented options don't give me a usable range neither.

Any undocumented options? Or is the textpicker my only (not user-friendly) option ?


kind regards,

Wim
  • i think ur mistaken. It can show meter. But u are limited to min of 250m.

    Try putting 0km and then select the other part
  • Former Member
    Former Member over 10 years ago
    Hi Nikeow,


    True, but 250m is too much as a minimum. I have a hiking app with most of the parameters hardcoded for my own use. I want to make them variable so other people can use it to.

    250m can work as an indication of you're getting close to one of the waypoints. I also need it to set the offtrack alert, to tell me when I am getting too far away from the GPX track. I typically have that on 25-50m depending on quality of the GPS signal and the GPX track.

    What I'll do is use the KM version and divide the value by 100. That gives me a good range. I'll have to put that in big fat letters in the manual (which nobody reads). But it's better than the text input.

    KR

    Wim
  • We have a solution in the works that should address this for you, but it won't be available right away.
  • Take it from me. No one reads it. At all. Then they will whine and give u a bad review and then u will get all worked up and upset and then they will not come into the forums to say it and u will never be able to figure out why.

    Sad.
  • As a hint, in my "breadcrumbs" app I use 75' as the distance from a crumb (waypoint) for auto detection. In real use it seems reasonable, taking into account the possible error in GPS location (my Etrex shows it's often accurate to about 30', but that type of data isn't available in Connect IQ).

    Maybe you could build your own "picker" using the up/down button and a list of options (50',75',100',125' for example - you don't need to allow for every number in that range) I've done something similar where I scroll through a list of defined options, and on the vivoactive I was able to use screen taps on different parts of the screen to scroll/select a setting.

    Or just use a reasonable value for now and wait for what Brandon had mentioned.