[Xastir] status text

[John Williams]

Next time I am on aprs, I'll turn on logging and keep a monitor window open as well.

I'll post what I find to the list.

John
VK5ZTY


On 12 Apr 2003 at 8:51, Curt Mills, WE7U wrote:

> On Sat, 12 Apr 2003, John Williams wrote:
> 
> > Status text for other stations used to appear in the comments section of the station view dialog.
> > Quite a while back this ceased to be the case. Either that or I have been looking at the wrong 
> > times and that status text was ovewritten by a comment.
> > 
> > Comments and status text should be displayed separately anyway.
> 
> Nothing has been changed in that section of the code for quite a
> while.  Of course we might have broken something there a long time
> back and not noticed.
> 
> The current method is that any status or comments get added to the
> same linked list that gets displayed in the Station Info dialog.
> If someone is sending regular updates (like "uptime" for instance)
> that keep changing, we keep dutifully adding them to the linked list
> if they're different than others on the list.  It just keeps growing.
> 
> If anyone can prove one way or another that Xastir is/is not handling
> these properly, please let us know.  I'll try to dream up some sort
> of test case (or grep logfiles) to see what's up.
> 
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