[Xastir-Dev] new station/object filters

[Gerry Creager N5JXS]

But I'm glad he did do it so fast!  I love the change!

Thanks, Curt!
73, gerry

J. Lance Cotton wrote:
> Sorry Curt... I don't mean for you to take it with such urgency! :-)
> 
> On another note: the filters you implemented would be great for use with 
> a SQL backend for storing received packets (a la Xastir2 someday). You 
> just filter out the non-displaying objects/stations at the database 
> transaction!
> 
> -Lance KJ5O
> 
> Curt Mills, WE7U wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, J. Lance Cotton wrote:
>>
>>
>> >I like the new options for filtering the display of various things. But
>> >it looks like the "Stations" menu is getting quite long now.
>> >
>> >Would it be better to make "Station Display Settings" type of control
>> >panel, like the map selector or the tigermap controls so that there are
>> >not so many items in the menus?
>> >
>> >Of course, the pro to have everything in the menus is that it's easy and
>> >quick to change on a glance.
>>
>>
>> Man, you guys don't give a guy a minute's peace, do you?  ;-)
>>
>> I did that last last night and was going to do more, but I find that
>> I get ill if I stay up too late for too many nights in a row.  I was
>> asleep by midnight (for once).
>>
>> I still need to:
>>
>> 1) Give those buttons reasonable defaults for the first time user,
>> 2) Save their status in the config file,
>> 3) Probably need to add a few more togglebuttons yet, and
>> 4) I'd like to separate them off into another menu or separate
>> dialog due to the long menu problem.
>>
> 


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