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

[Dan Brown]

On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Curt, WE7U wrote:

> On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Dan Brown wrote:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> We could always use some re-org.  Keep thinking about such things,
> and if you come up with something that you think really works,
> present it to the -Dev list and perhaps you/I and others can work
> towards that.

Before I start hacking:

- Is it worth it to change the -DDEBUG_ALOHA and the ifdefs over
to a if (debug_level & 2048) scheme? 

- Would that be better with a lower, existing debug_level? 


I took a look at the code, and think there are a couple places where an
approprinate status_line("message",#) would be appropriate.  I think if
this is important enough to make difficult to disable it would useful
knowing whether it the range has been determined, and, if so, the magnitude
of the radius -- without having to try to zoom until you find the yellow
circle, and or recompiling with debugging enabled. 

The already coded though ifdef'ed DEBUG_ALOHA routine at the end of
calc_aloha() looks to be pretty much what I'm after, FWIW.



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Dan Brown 
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