Hi Sebastian,
ok, it crashes. "terminate" sounded more friendly :) Anyway that is bad. I fixed it. Oliver > > Am Freitag, 19. Oktober 2012 22:30 CEST, Oliver Eichler > <[email protected]> schrieb: > >> Hi Sebastian, >> >> the one thing is, to derive a meaning full error message if the shit >> hits the fan. That kind of hard to do in a portable way. >> >> The other things is, that in my opinion there is something broken if a >> USB mass storage is not mounted read/write. > > I know sometimes its hard to tell what the real cause of a problem is. > Having a USB mass storage read-only can happen. IIRC, there are USB > sticks which have a hw switch to protect it against writes, even if you mount > it r/w. But I haven't seen a GPS device that can do that yet, so this might > not apply here ;) > > But instead of silently disappearing, a warning about a "unknown/generic" > problem that might have occurred seems to be a bit more user friendly, > but that might be just me ;) > > Anyways, I filled the GPS with garbage, up to 0 bytes left, and wanted > to see what happens when I try uploading waypoints to it. > QLGT actually lied to me, telling me that the upload succeeded. > The block holding the directory entry seemed to be not totally filled, > since it was able to create a MyWaypoints.gpx file, but that file > was empty :( > > So, don't want to bash anything or anyone here. QLGT is a great > software, and all your work is highly appreciated. > > cheers, > Sebastian > > > >> >> >> Oliver >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm on OpenBSD, with Oregon 550, using Garmin Mass Storage to access the >>> device, QLGT 1.5.3. >>> Mounting the GPS on a directory gives ownership of the files to the owner >>> of the directory where it is mounted. >>> >>> If I am not the owner, then I cannot write to it. Now trying to upload a >>> Waypoint, qlandkarte just terminates, >>> instead of giving me a more userfriendly error message, telling me what's >>> wrong ;) >>> >>> On the console I see: terminate called after throwing an instance of >>> 'QString' >>> >>> Sure, I'll mount rw now, but it puzzled me for a while before I figured out >>> the real cause >>> of the problem. Maybe some warning could be implemented? >>> >>> cheers, >>> Sebastian >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. >>> Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics >>> Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: >>> http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Qlandkartegt-users mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qlandkartegt-users >>> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. >> Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics >> Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct >> _______________________________________________ >> Qlandkartegt-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qlandkartegt-users > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct _______________________________________________ Qlandkartegt-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qlandkartegt-users
