[Xastir] Re: [Xastir-dev] Map Properties/dbfawk: Time to rethink?

[Ed Lawson]

I would just like for my tiger maps to work again.... they disappeared when
you combined them back into the map chooser menu and I've pulled my hair
out trying to get them back, to no avail.  (all of the appropriate
directory entries appear to be there, but the tigermap option is just
missing in the map chooser menu).  I even edited the map chooser menu file
and although that made it appear in the menu, it doesn't call tigermaps.
(and that item disappeared again the first time I ran 're-index maps).

Ed  W5ZS
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On 12/12/2003 at 2:01 PM Curt Mills, WE7U wrote:

>On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Jim Chandler wrote:
>
>> I agree.  This is exactly what I had in mind when I moved the Tiger map
>> out of the Map Chooser and gave it it's own menu.  I wanted to extend it
>> beyond just Tiger maps (mapquest, etc) to be good for all
>> internet-required type maps.  I had already started on menus that
allowed
>> for customizing the map to some extent.  This of course has all been
>> removed and put back under Map Chooser, so I'm at a loss at this point
on
>> how to realize, transparently to the user, how to modify these maps,
>> without requiring one to use joe or vi.
>
>I applaud the idea of a single place for configuration.  What I
>object to is multiple places for enabling maps.  I got very tired of
>messing up when switching between various local and internet maps,
>which I do often.  Having map selection in one dialog makes things
>much easier.
>
>The dialog for customizing maps has not been removed, it's just been
>moved to "Map->Configure->Configure Tigermap".  It's the exact same
>dialog as you had before, minus the enable/disable button for the
>Tigermap itself, and with the addition that the selections are now
>fully saved/restored to/from the config file.
>
>As far as having a single dialog for configuration:  Extend that to
>a single dialog for configuring ANY map, local or remote.
>
>So...  Regarding how to proceed from here.  I'd like to hear ideas
>on how people would like to handle map configuration.
>
>My current choice:  I'd like to see the Map Chooser->Properties
>dialog extended.  Either add things to it directory, or add another
>button to it for selecting layers/features and how to display them.
>At that point the Tigermap Config dialog could be folded in to it
>and disappear.  Perhaps there could be some global default dialogs
>for maps/directories that haven't been specifically set up, in which
>case the tigermap configuration would live on as perhaps the "remote
>map configuration" dialog.
>
>What to do with the results of these dialogs is another question:
>Supplement/extend the dbfawk scheme?  Do something else?
>
>-- 
>Curt Mills, WE7U                    hacker_NO_SPAM_ at tc.fluke.com
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