[Xastir] RE: [Xastir-Dev] Map Drawing Tweaks

[Curt Mills, WE7U]

On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Miller Scott Contr 30SCS/FTI wrote:

> I think I've got a suggestion logged on Sourceforge that relates to this.
> The resizing thing is annoying, but what really gets me is having to wait
> for a redraw when I want to zoom out several times in a row.  Delorme Street
> Atlas, for example, just aborts the redraw and starts over when that
> happens.

The problem is, we need to put the map drawing into a separate
thread in order to do this.  That might be a lot of work to do so.
In any case, it hasn't been done yet.  Map drawing happens in the
main thread.


> Speaking of Street Atlas, how about a 'zoom out three levels'
> button?

We're already overflowing our boundaries on a 640x480 screen.  I'm
not sure we want to add any more.

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