Problem: Auto-pauses disregarded - unwanted pause time included in TCX

[DarthWombat]

G'day...

One of the main reasons I purchased TopoFusion was so I could easily merge or cut tracks - the editing features are way better than those provided by Garmin. I mean, MapSource can do some basic editing but it can't seem to export back out to a TCX file with HRM and cadence (go figure), and TrainingCenter has no editing at all! At the moment, I just want to be able to edit out the sections of my rides to and from various hills so I can just look at the hill climbs and descents and compare directly between days.

I have one slight problem with the TCX files saved from TopoFusion: It completely disregards my auto-pauses and includes the pause times in the history. If you have a look at the two TrainingCenter graphs (Please don't laugh at my pathetic climbing rate), you will see that the TopoFusion output has flat lines where I stopped at the bottom and the top of the hill, where the original imported from my Edge 705 does not. If I really wanted to include my pauses, I would have turned auto-pause off in the first place. Is there some way to have the TF TCX output treat the pause times exactly as the original?

Also, I'm still having to do the manual "<Cadence>255</Cadence>" to "<Cadence>0</Cadence>" text substitution in the TF TCX files to allow TrainingCenter to import the files. TF seems to do this for all the points where I have been coasting (zero cadence). Any word on when you might have a permanent fix for this?

Otherwise, I'm having fun finding my way around TF and seeing what it can do. Keep up the good work.

Thanks in anticipation,

Alex.

[ScottMorris]

Alex,

I didn't think that any information about "auto-pausing" was actually in the TCX file.  Can you send me the original file?  It's pretty easy for software to tell when you are moving or not and simply not include that.  But it appears, from your bottom track, that there must be something in the TCX file that TF is not saving out.

The fix is ready on the cadence, I just need to push out a new version.  The code has been tied up a bit with a side project I am working on, but it looks like there is a lull now and I should be able to push out a new version relatively soon.  Thanks for your patience with that.

[DarthWombat]

OK - TCX File sent via e-mail.

Good to hear the next update isn't far away.

Thanks,

Alex.