This Program was originally written with Visual C++ 6 under Windows XP. After upgrading to  Windows 8.1 I realized, that neither this program nor Visual C was compatible to it. So I updated this program using a test version of Visual Studio 2013. Since I have to do the same for all my programs I might miss some errors, so please If you find one contact me.

After using the program to produce a lot of films I hopefully corrected most errors.

The Installer should do all what is necessary. Depending on the selected package, a 32 or 64bit version will be installed. If you change from one to the other you have to uninstall the old if necessary by hand.

All settings you can enter in this program can be saved/loaded as “projects”. A project is never saved automatically, but at the program start a standard project should be loaded. This has the name default.dyt. It is searched for first in the personal folder and there in the sub-folder \DYJ\OSM, if it doesn't exists it is searched in the program-folder. The actually loaded file is displayed in the window-Title.

To change the language go to the menu: Edit/Options.

At the moment the program and help-files exist in English, German and French.

Use “Add GPX” to add one or more GPX-Files. They´ll be shown with date, time, name in chrono­logical order. Since the GPX-File have the time in UTC, you can enter the time-zone. This is only used to better know which file is which, for the sorting it makes no difference, and in the final maps the time doesn´t appears anywhere. Next you can set the default color in which the tracks are shown, one color for “normal” tracks and one for flights . There are 2 buttons to delete one or all files from the list, alternatively you can use <Del> or <Shift><Del>. Use “Edit” to change the settings for a single entry or double click on it. There you can set:

• •name: it is used in the list and in the HTML-Output.. If you don´t change it the file name will be used. 

• •Start: Date and Time at which the track starts. This is used to sort the files in the list and most important for the film. As default the time of the first track-point is used. If it doesn´t has a time-stamp the file date is used. 

• •Reverse: check this if for some reason you want to draw that track in reverse in the film. 

• •Color: The color in which the track is drawn. Here you have the chois between the two special colors (normal/flight) or any other. 

• •Besides the usual “OK” and “Cancel” Buttons you also find “<<” and “>>”. This way it is easy to change the setting for many files one after the other.  

Since you probably haven't logged your flights, you can add them just by entering the 2 Airports. To enter the Airports you can either directly enter the coordinates or use their Code. You can use either the IATA- or the ICAO-Code so to enter the JFK-Airport in NY you can enter one of the following:

• •40.63980103,-73.77890015  

• •JFK 

• •KJFK 

The program uses 2 areas, the normal one for all three output formats and the overview area used only for the movie. Each are can be set in the following ways:

Under size you can set the picture size in pixel and under “line width” the width of the line which shows the tracks.

This uses the same form as for picture, but with some more settings visible. Besides the settings ex­plained under V) you can set frames/s. Depending of your origin this should usually be 25 or 30. The size can be set individually, but if you want to see the movie on a TV you should use one of the following settings:

PAL-movie 720*576 with 25 Frames/s

and for

FULL-HD 1920*1080 also with 25 Frames/s

for NTSC (USA,...) 720*480 with 30 Frames/s

To set the different durations of the movie you have the section “Duration”. In total the movie is combined out of 6 parts. The first three are grouped under “zoom duration” and the rest under “Route duration”. The 6 parts are:

1. 1.zoom Lead: this part shows a static map of the overview area. 

2. 2.Zoom-main part: here the map is zoomed from the overview to the normal area. The main area does not has to be inside the overview area, even if this was the intention when I wrote the program, but you can misuse it also to get a slide from one area to an other. 

3. 3.Zoom-trailer: here a static picture of the “normal area” is shown. 

4. 4.Route: Lead: This is the same as 3) The main reason for it is to make the program more symmetric. 

5. 5.Route:main part: Here the tracks are drawn from frame to frame. 

6. 6.6Route: trailer: At the end you see the map of the normal area with all tracks on it. 

When you start the movie-making with “make movie” you´ll be first asked which renderer to use. Since I don´t supply any renderer This step is necessary. Depending which renderer you chose the quality and size of the result might differ. I usually use “ Microsoft Video 1”

With “save Area” you can save the area shown of the map (parts 3-6). This is not exactly the “nor­mal area” of the main window, since the movie has a defined aspect ratio. You can save the area either as a GPX- or dyb-file (the native format of dyjtrack). There are at least the following uses for these files:

• •If you want to show on an overview map the area of an detail map do it as follow: Create the detail-map with or without tracks, as picture or film, save the area of it in a GPX-File. Then create the overview map. Include this GPX-File as one track (Add GPX). This way you get a map with a rectangle marking the area of the first map. 

• •You want to make one movie with for example all tracks of one trip and a few movies with parts of that trip. If you want to start all detail-maps with the same overview area, you can first create the overview-film saving its area as a dyb-file, than for each detail-film you load this file (load area) after selecting the “Overview-area”-tag.  

here you can set:

Here you can load a project saved by DYJ-Track

Here you can add a project without deleting the actual one.

Here you can save all settings to a file.

Here you can save all settings to a file with a new path.

In addition to saving the project-file this also copies all needed GPX-Files into a sub-folder. This way you can easily transfer a hole project. But take care, if you overwrite a project the sub-folder will be erased first to make space for the files, so do not stare any other files there.

After the link you have to copy the necessary dlls ... to dyjtrack exe, this is most easily done with the tool windeployqt.exe. Which on my computer is under: C: \ Qt \ 5.12.0 \ mingw73_64 \ bin \ windeployqt.exe The exact path depends of course on the installation location of QT and the chosen kit.

Dimitri Junker

• •no change to the program, but two additional dll. A Taho-user could not load tiles from https servers. 

• •Area Files now have the extension .dyb instead of dyt, but you can still load dyt. 

• •Temporary files are now saved where the OS wants them. 

• •Error outputs improved and the writing of a log file provided. 

• •The Airports.csv URL had changed. 

• •At some points the program now remembers the path last used. 

• •At the end of the program, now you are asked whether the settings should be saved. 

• •The progress bar now runs better when creating an image or video. 

• •Mainly internal changes, in the use nothing should have changed. 

• •Now there are both 32 and 64 bit versions. 

• •The old install was missing the Platforms folder 

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• •The window title contains now the project path 

• •New Menu point „new project“ 

• •manually entered values for the areas were ignored.
   

2.03 from 14.Apr.2016

• •The Tiles were not read from Cache but downloaded for every Frame → verry slow. 

• •The reading routine for DYT Files had an error, so that for example the dates of flights were lost. 

• •Some new keyboard shortcuts to delete and change Gpx-Files or flights. 

• •Thee menu Help didn't worked.
   

2.00ß from 2.Dec.14

• •First Version created with QT-Creator. Therefore many internal changes (almost new Program) but little changes for the User, but since it is still little tested I added the ß
   

• •There might be problems with maps of the polar regions. 

• •There should be a better way to edit the taho-Files (sources) 

• •There should be a better way to define areas then using Bbox-Tool 

• •if your english is better than mine please help find my errors