Thread: GPS Gasoline RR Plugin: Now w/ iGuidance Support

Originally Posted by lostreception

Next Release will have a better interface and RR intergration

Also thought I might mention this 2 options here

• I can make it a live data request tool meaning that you request gas it brings it up OR
  
  you have the computer connect to the internet at a given time and it will request and build a list of stations for you with in a certian mile radius or certian zipcode number (keep in mind some zips offer 2 or more towns worth of stations)
  from there i may be able to limit the results to those in a particular direction or even do it automatically via road runners gps heading (NE S W etc)
  
  just with some rough math here to do the batch downloads (if possible) 200 zip codes yields only a 35 miles radius id grab every third or fourth zip because of this but
  200 stored htmls @ 5k each = 1 MB just for a half hours drive
  so batch may not be worth it also the bigger the radius get the more uneeded stations get loaded
  
  
  please chime in with any thoughts thanks
  
  

I think this is a brilliant idea...... one suggestion would be to integrate the ability to make a trip specific list of gas stations. for instance if im driving from North Carolina to new York city, i would drive from raleigh along Hwy 64 east then join I-95 north. If i could get the gas price of all stations on this route, then make the llist clickable so that if you click on the station you like, it gives you directions to the station....Now that would elevate you to royalty

oh yeah...make it skinnable also....

Originally Posted by jthiani

Now that would elevate you to royalty

i was thinking god-hood, but royalty works too

Originally Posted by jthiani

I think this is a brilliant idea...... one suggestion would be to integrate the ability to make a trip specific list of gas stations. for instance if im driving from North Carolina to new York city, i would drive from raleigh along Hwy 64 east then join I-95 north. If i could get the gas price of all stations on this route, then make the llist clickable so that if you click on the station you like, it gives you directions to the station....Now that would elevate you to royalty

oh yeah...make it skinnable also....

• trip specific will be hard to implement
  im open to suggestions
  
• yes links will be supported
  
• skinning shouldnt be a problem

for trip specific, if you could somehow integrate with the mapping software (iG for instance) then once you enter your route in to iG, it has a built in list of points of interest (including gas stations). If this info could be imported into you app, it could simply match up the gas stations on the poi list to the list in your app

Sweet. I asked about this last year feature request: native gps support and no one wanted to do it. Gas list for a trip would be awesome. just went to las vegas last weekend and I was going to pre look up gas prices before we left and forgot. If only I could have pulled up a quick list of cheap gas places in the car. Keep up the good work. I need to get back to the program I was working on for RR. Been kind of busy. I dont have a GPS right now or I would try it....

Ok, figured out what the missing DAO.MSI problem is. DAO allows for interaction between programs and databases, etc. The culprit here is an ATI video card problem. When the drivers are installed, the DAO components are also installed, but apparently Windows isn't configured correctly, so when you run GPSGasoline, it tries to run the DAO.MSI install program to correct everything, but alas, most likely you won't have this file :-\ . To fix this problem, follow these steps: :-)

1. Download and extract this file DAO_Problem_Fix.zip 2.37MB
2. In the extracted file / folder "DAO MSI", run the "Microsoft DAO.msi" file
3. Copy the "DAO360.DLL" file in the "dao360" folder to "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\DAO\"
4. enter this code in START / RUN: regsvr32 /u "c:\program files\common files\microsoft shared\dao\dao360.dll"
   
5. enter this code in START / RUN: regsvr32 "c:\program files\common files\microsoft shared\dao\dao360.dll"
6. Run GPSGasoline. It should work with no problems.

Originally Posted by W3bMa5t3r

Ok, figured out what the missing DAO.MSI problem is. DAO allows for interaction between programs and databases, etc. The culprit here is an ATI video card problem. When the drivers are installed, the DAO components are also installed, but apparently Windows isn't configured correctly, so when you run GPSGasoline, it tries to run the DAO.MSI install program to correct everything, but alas, most likely you won't have this file :-\ . To fix this problem, follow these steps: :-)

1. Download and extract this file DAO_Problem_Fix.zip 2.37MB
2. In the extracted file / folder "DAO MSI", run the "Microsoft DAO.msi" file
3. Copy the "DAO360.DLL" file in the "dao360" folder to "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\DAO\"
4. enter this code in START / RUN: regsvr32 /u "c:\program files\common files\microsoft shared\dao\dao360.dll"
   
5. enter this code in START / RUN: regsvr32 "c:\program files\common files\microsoft shared\dao\dao360.dll"
6. Run GPSGasoline. It should work with no problems.

Thanks for the writeup

ok maybe ill check for dependancy issues on load then load them if neccissary

Originally Posted by lostreception

Thanks for the writeup

ok maybe ill check for dependancy issues on load then load them if neccissary

That should work. So far the two issues I encountered weren't on both machines, just one on each. Easy enough to fix though Thanks again for this program

Nice indeed!