Posts Tagged ‘Windows 8’

Diving Log Touch for Windows 8.1

Tuesday, December 31st, 2013

A Windows 8.1 optimized version of Diving Log Touch is now available in the Windows Store. It makes use of the new platform capabilities:

  • Support for new window sizes (snapped mode)
  • Search function
  • Contact Picker
  • Contact Card
  • Add equipment revision to calendar app
  • Large Live Tile

Search function

New side-by-side app support and possibility to add revision dates to the calendar app

New side-by-side app support and possibility to add revision dates to the calendar app

Add buddy from/to contacts app

Add buddy from/to contacts app

New large live tile

New large live tile

The update should now be available in the Windows 8.1 app store. I wish everyone a Happy New Year!

Diving Log Touch update available

Thursday, December 5th, 2013

Today a new update for Diving Log Touch is available in the Windows Store. The update is for Windows 8 and 8.1 and contains these new features:

To launch the touch downloader, make sure you have already installed Diving Log 5.0.12. The online dive site search is available in the map view. You can search either by dive site name or around the center of the map.

Search nearby dive sites

Search nearby dive sites

Search dive sites online by name

Search dive sites online by name

Tap the download button to launch the dive computer downloader.

Tap the download button to launch the dive computer downloader.

 

 

Touch Downloader

Thursday, November 28th, 2013

A lot of divers don’t want to use a laptop to download their dives during vacation. Instead there are many requests to download dives directly to a tablet, which is more lightweight than a laptop. Unfortunately this is technically challenging or almost impossible to do this from a tablet app (e.g. iPad or Windows Store app) due to hardware limitations or missing API’s. Because of that, I created a touch optimized dive computer downloader (based on libdivecomputer), which runs on the desktop in full screen. It looks exactly as Diving Log Touch and can be easily used with a touch screen or mouse, but it is a desktop application and thus does not have the limitations of Windows Store apps.

Download dives on a Windows 8 tablet

Download dives on a Windows 8 tablet

Because it is a desktop application, the touch downloader cannot be used on a Windows RT device (e.g. Surface RT). You need a full Windows 8 tablet or PC to run the downloader. It works also on Windows 7 and Vista, however this app is meant for touch screen devices. You can launch the app directly from Diving Log Touch:

Tap the download button in the app bar

Tap the download button in the app bar

From the next page you can launch the desktop touch downloader

From the next page you can launch the desktop downloader

When you tap on “Launch Downloader”, Diving Log Touch will be closed and the desktop is displayed. On the desktop the touch downloader app starts automatically in full screen:

The desktop downloader looks exactly as Diving Log Touch

The desktop downloader looks exactly as Diving Log Touch

When the downloader was launched from Diving Log Touch, the dives are imported directly into the touch logbook. When it was started from the desktop, it will download the dives into your desktop logbook. After downloading and importing, you can either close the desktop downloader with the X in the upper right corner or you can switch back to Diving Log Touch with the back button in the upper left corner.

If the Touch downloader does not start (and tapping the “Download” button just opens the website), start Diving Log 6.0, click on the menu “File > Preferences > File Association > Apply:

Register the Touch Downloader

Register the Touch Downloader

Frequently asked questions:

  • Where can I download the Touch Downloader?
  • Why does this app run on the desktop and is not integrated into Diving Log Touch?
    • It is currently technically not possible to create a dive computer downloader in a Windows Store app
  • Why do I have to install the Diving Log 6.0 desktop application to get the touch downloader?
    • The touch downloader is integrated into the Diving Log 6.0 setup, because Windows Store apps cannot install desktop components
  • On which devices does this downloader work?
    • The downloader runs on Windows 10, 8, 7 and Vista and requires the .NET Framework 4.0 (only Vista and Win 7)
  • When I tap “Launch Downloader”, a website opens or nothing happens at all.
  • I have a Windows RT device (e.g. Surface RT or Nokia Lumia 2520), can I use this downloader?
    • Unfortunately not at the moment. On Windows RT you cannot run desktop applications (except MS Office). There are also no dive computer drivers for Windows RT available
  • I have an Android tablet, can I download my dives directly with it?
  • I have problems downloading my dive computer, what should I do?
    • Please have a look at this page and/or contact me with the exact error message and problem description
  • My dive computer is not listed, how can I help to get it supported?

 

OneDrive Sync on Windows 8.1

Thursday, August 8th, 2013

If you want to use the OneDrive synchronization (former SkyDrive) in Diving Log 5.0 on Windows 8.1 you must ensure the “Divelog” folder within your OneDrive is available offline, otherwise Diving Log cannot access the files within this folder and the synchronization doesn’t work. To do this, open Windows Explorer, right click the “Divelog” folder in your OneDrive and select “Make available offline”. Please wait until your logbook files are downloaded to your PC, then you can use the sync function in Diving Log.

Make available offline

Make available offline

If you prefer, you can do the same in the metro style app:

Make offline in Metro app

Make offline in Metro app

In Windows 8.1 OneDrive doesn’t download all files by default. Instead you have to use the above function to get Diving Log 5.0 OneDrive sync working.

 

Online dive site search for tablet and phone

Tuesday, June 25th, 2013

In Diving Log 5.0 on the desktop you already can perform an online search for dive sites and import new sites into your own logbook. This feature will be available now also in Diving Log on Windows Phone and Diving Log Touch on Windows 8 in the next update. You can either search for a dive site name or search for dive sites nearby, which means in these touch centric apps near the center of the map. When you tap on an online dive site flag and then again on it’s label, you can import this dive site into your logbook.

Diving Log Touch: Open the app bar and click on “Search”. Enter a search term to filter your existing dives, then tap on “Search online”. Click on “Search nearby” in the app bar to search for dive sites at the center of the map:

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Diving Log for WP: Tap on the “Search” icon in the app bar. Enter a search term to filter your existing dives, then tap into the map to hide the keyboard. Now tap on the new icon “Search online” in the app bar. Open the app bar menu and tap on “Search nearby” to search for dive sites at the center of the map:

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Diving Log Touch – SkyDrive Sync

Tuesday, June 4th, 2013

Today I’ve released the next update of Diving Log Touch to the Windows Store, which should be available within one week. Beside the new statistic charts I’ve also implemented SkyDrive sync into the logbook management pane. While you could save to SkyDrive (and Dropbox) before by using the file picker integration, the new integrated sync is more comfortable and easier to use. You can now sync easily between Diving Log 5.0, Diving Log for Windows Phone and Diving Log Touch.

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Diving Log Touch – Statistics

Sunday, May 26th, 2013

The next update of Diving Log Touch for Windows 8 and Windows RT includes most of the charts already available in Diving Log 5.0. To view the charts, just scroll to the right in the statistics section. To change the type of the chart, tap on the header title (e.g. “Chart Years”) and a dropdown list appears.

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Diving Log Touch Update

Monday, November 5th, 2012

The first update of Diving Log Touch should be available this week in the Windows Store. I’ve tested it on Windows RT for ARM devices like the new Surface tablet, it contains some minor bug fixes and I’ve implemented the Share feature of Windows 8. The Share function can be reached from the Charms bar and allows you to share certain content from Diving Log with other apps you’ve installed on your device. It can be quite useful, but it really depends on what other apps you’ve installed and what they can do with this data. Here are some examples:

Tap the Share button in the Charms Bar to send data to other apps.

Learn more about a country by sharing it to the Wikipedia app.

Send a dive site map image via the mail app to your buddies.

Share your latest dive activity on Facebook or Twitter with your favorite social network app.

I expect that there will be many more use cases in the future, when more apps arrive in the store. Think about an app with global dive site information, where you can post or retrieve dive site data.

Diving Log Touch for Windows RT (here running on the new Surface) will be available this week.

Diving Log Touch now available

Saturday, October 13th, 2012

Diving Log Touch is now available in the Windows Store. Click the button below on your Windows 8, 10 or RT device to download the app from the Windows Store:

You only have to buy Diving Log Touch once and can install it on all your Windows 8 / 10 / RT devices. Here you can see an overview which Diving Log version you can install on which Windows version:

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Diving Log 5.0 beta update available

Friday, October 12th, 2012

There is a new beta update for Diving Log 5.0 available. Make sure you have version 5.0.7 installed before downloading and installing the new version into the same location. The most important new feature is the new sync function for Diving Log Touch on Windows 8. But there are also some other nice improvements:

  • New sync function for Diving Log Touch
  • Profile data 4 and 5 now available (see below)
  • Cressi Leonardo Import
  • Poseidon MkVI Import improved
  • Profile can now show all gas switch labels (see below)
  • Current and waves dropdowns remember previous custom entries
  • + and – zoom buttons in dive place map
  • Some bug fixes in other importers and downloaders

Diving Log Touch Sync

Profile data 4 and 5 is now available for display in the “Extended Layout 2” and for exporting from the “Data” button.

Display all gas switch labels