I don't know what I am missing, but if I modify the string to use an alternative program, it just doesn't seem to work.
I've tried calling a simple bash script which takes in the %qmessage% argument and just writes it out to another file, but nothing.

I'll check it out - maybe it's working dirctory related ? I'd guess it runs the string in the /opt/modrana directory.

and for offline map download using gmapcatcher as told at some posts at earlier pages, how do i export it to modrana since it seems that they both using different file structure?