[Xastir-dev] Proposal for eliminating the .osm files;

[Jerry Dunmire]

How about this- The first transition from linear to binned and from
binned to linear, pop up a dialog explaining the change. The box would
appear when the map is drawn (it is 'selecting' that requires an
extension to make a decision), i.e, the first redraw after Apply or OK
is pressed.

The dialog would have an OK button to dismiss it and a check-box for
"don't warn me again'.
The "don't warn me again setting" would be a saved configuration. We
may want to still include a status indicator so that we can get a
quick answer to the zoom style when others report problems.

Note that I was not proposing to change the way zoom boxes or direct
scale entry works, only the event driven zoom changes from buttons.

...jerry


On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Curt, WE7U <curt.we7u at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jun 2010, Jerry Dunmire wrote:
>
>> I agree with the user notification. I was thinking (hoping) that the
>> the menu entries could be changed dynamically, but I can see where
>> that might not be enough. Adding a pop-up when the maps are selected
>> would run into the same issues that drove me to create the new
>> extension, but maybe there is another way/time to inform the user of
>> the change. What about something on the status bar?
>
> I don't think that would be visible enough.
>
> Just throwing out another idea:  What about drawing warning text on
> the map?  It could even be something that has a timeout and
> disappears after 5 or 10 seconds.  Would pop up each time one of the
> non-standard zoom levels was attempted perhaps, via zoom-box or
> other.
>
> Another possibility would be to add warning text in the Map Chooser
> next to those selections.  Just append text to every OSM file when
> writing the lines into the Map Chooser.  Might have to chop those
> off again when checking what was selected... Have to look at the
> code to see.
>
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