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Geocaching Map Enhancements

By JRI Last update May 28, 2013 — Installed 35,624 times.

Problem Changing Map Type

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Bill Lancashire User
FirefoxX11

A problem has developed for me with the version 0.5.6. When I select a different map from the drop-down box, the new map is not displayed until I click for a second time. Also when the tiles are rendering the background is black and the rendering seems slower than earlier versions.

This did not happen with version 0.5.5.

I have had to copy back the script to version 0.5.3 because I hadn't saved a copy of the 0.5.5 script.

I wonder what change can have caused this to happen.

 
Bill Lancashire User
FirefoxX11

I am still having this problem.

Perhaps I did not explain it clearly in the first post.

If I install the latest version GME 0.5.8 and then go to the geocaching map page, I can select a map form the list but then if I try to select a different map I can only select one from further DOWN the list . If I try to select one higher UP in the list nothing happens and the map stays the same. Therefore when I select the map type that is the bottom one in the list I can make no further selections after that one until I restart the browser.

I have tried the 'Reset Defaults' option but it doesn't help.

I have sequentially install the previous versions of GME and can now conclude that the problem for my occurs first in version 0.5.6. GME 0.505 is the last version that works correctly in this respect.

I would be grateful for any help to understand this as I would like toi use the latest version to benefit form the new features.

I am using Firefox

Thank you.

 
JRI Script's Author
FirefoxWindows

Hopefully this is fixed in 0.5.9. I could only reproduce the problem when I dug out my old Linux terminal with Firefox 3.6. It looks like the culprit was some DOM code that is only supported in later versions, and didn't show up in my tests on Opera and Chrome.

 
Bill Lancashire User
FirefoxX11

Many thanks. The problem is solved for me with v0.5.9.
for information, I am using Firefox v8.0.1 (Linux).

 
JRI Script's Author
Linux

That sounds like the problem. I had accidentally used "parentElement" (new in FF9) rather than the almost identical "parentNode", which has worked since FF1.