[Xastir-dev] ALOHA circle display (and calculation)

[Dan Brown]

On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Tom Russo wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 06:36:21AM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <gerry.creager at TAMU.EDU> flavor, containing:
> > PLEASE tell me there's a way to turn that off?!
> 
> Curt committed a map-menu option to turn off display of ALOHA circles this
> afternoon.  
> 
> Computation of the aloha radius cannot be turned off --- it once occurs every
> half hour.  If there is no TNC connected, this amounts to xastir taking
> a single walk through the linked list of station data once every half hour for
> no reason --- if there's an easy way for the database code to know that there 
> is no RF interface, calling the function that does the computation could
> be conditionalized.  But at a rate of once every half hour, it didn't seem
> worth the bother.  And to disable the computation if the display is turned 
> off would screw things up when the display is turned back on.  

Would it be possible -- or maybe, rather, reasonable -- to expand the
View->Uptime window somewhat to be more of a "Status" view?  In otherwords,
show various bits of current status or totals:

	- Uptime
	- # of stations
	- # of local 
	- # stations from RF
	- Aloha radius (or status of calculation) 
	- GPS Status, 
	- etc. 

Some of this is in the status bar, at the bottom of the screen - would maybe
having the Aloha radius displayed there also be good? Maybe there are a 
couple menu items under the View menu (like gps stat and uptime) that could
be combined into one display? 

FWIW, and maybe this just goes more to indicate how (not) well my RF side
is working here in the DC metro area, I don't see the circle yet, after
running since sometime yesterday afternoon.  I'd enjoy having a way to see
the current status of the calculation. 

> Curt and I discussed whether we should part company with Bob Bruninga regarding
> user control of ALOHA display (Bob says it should always be displayed), and

Does he specify whether a yellow circle needs to be drawn, or would he
settle for, as suggested above, a numeric display on the status bar at the
bottom of the screen? 

> the compromise is that it can be turned off, but the disabling is not saved
> in the configuration file.  

// note to self:
// make patch to ifdef this in personal codetree ;-)



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