[Xastir-dev] Documentation stuff and bug reports

[Curt Mills, WE7U]

On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Reuven Z Gevaryahu wrote:

> A couple of queries on the documentation updates that I need to do:
>
> 1) What exactly does the "track me" feature do? It seems like it just
> tracks your station?

Yep.  Used for mobiling around only.  Much quicker than doing the
track station stuff and typing in your own callsign.


> (There seems to be a minor bug related to this in that if you unset
> tracking from the stations menu, the trackme box remains checked, but
> this is probibly just a few line fix.)

Yep.  Should be easy.  I'll fix that.  I added it to the bug list.


> 2) Timestamps in logfiles: Is this configurable, or just every 30 seconds?

Every 30 seconds.


> 3) Quad label shapefiles: I assume I was referring to the
> usgs_24kgrid.zip when I wrote this... gisdatadepot's ftp is broken, is
> there anywhere else this file lives?

On my machine.  Yea, that's the correct filename.  I could send it
to you.


> 4) Map extent/index caching - I suspect I don't have to add this do the
> docs very much, but I seem to get strange stuff showing in the map
> chooser after restarting, I suspect a bug in the save extents code... I have
> 0018100900,0017881270,0036427980,0036672550,PA/bedford.map
> 0017951650,0017755180,0037280530,0037610330,PA/berks.map/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XApplication
> 0017913310,0017731350,0036495660,0036679210,PA/blair.map
> 0017445850,0017278320,0037105240,0037399430,PA/bradford.map
>
> in my map_index.sys at the moment.. buffer overrun or similar?

Interesting.  I'll look into that.  I added it to the bug list.


> Also it seems to not learn of the deletion of map files even on
> restarts, but I haven't tested this much.

Correct.  It'll pick up new files, but it doesn't delete them from
the index.  I added it to the bug list.

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