)? Read on!I recently got back into diving and bought a whole bag of used equipment for a very decent price. One of the items was a very gently used Galileo Sol, which has served me just fine for the time being and I have no urge to replace it yet. Once I had a couple of dives logged, I started looking at software options to manage my dives and all my shiny new (aka used) gear on my beloved MacBook. That's when I first stumbled across MacDive, which looked like an awesome tool to me (still does!). Lo and behold, there are a few posts here on the forum that quickly educated me about the issues around the support for the Uwatec computers in MacDive. Well, bummer, I thought, I'll just make do with JTrak, I thought. That lasted for about 2 weeks and I got frustrated with the lack of features, specifically the inability to manage gear, sites, and other things supported by MacDive. OK, I thought, I'll just export from JTrak and import into MacDive. Well, as you all probably know, that's not an option out of the box. The perl script I found to convert the JTrak Excel output to a format MacDive could work with seemed like a good option, but in the course of looking for it, I also dug a little deeper into JTrak's data format and code architecture. My goal was to have a simple tool that could convert JTrak data directly into an XML format compatible with other dive log software (mainly MacDive, really! Did I mention that I like MacDive?).
Anyway, long story short, after cobbling something together (with much help from Nick! Big kudos!!), I decided to wrap it all up into something others might also find useful: JTrak2XML. Feel free to give it a spin and let me know if it works (or doesn't).
The tool allows you to export all your dives from JTrak to MacDive XML or UDDF format. You will need to enter your name (or someone else's, JTrak2XML don't care) as well as the location of the JTrak app. The window that pops up when you run the tool should be pretty self-explanatory.
For now, it's a pretty bare-bones tool that will require you to use the command line (a single command you can copy and paste from the GitHub site. You can do it!!). It should work on platforms other than the Mac, but I have not tested that yet. I'll be working on the documentation some more next and also on wrapping it into an OS X app for easier use.
