[Xastir] Re:Xastir and GPS

[Curt Mills, WE7U]

On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Mike Fenske wrote:

> Further to my previous questions, I did some testing yesterday with CVS
> from Saturday, March 15. It appears that the GPS check interval is not
> working or I am not understanding it's purpose. With GPS check interval set
> to 20 seconds, I noticed that my position on the map is actually updated
> about every second, which is about the same as how often my gps outputs
> data. In order to reduce the CPU load on my old laptop, I was hoping to
> have Xastir check gps position less often.

Try the latest code please.  It should work more like you expect
now, except that the colored indicators on the status bar still go
nuts while you have a serial GPS connected.  We're not parsing all
those sentences anymore though.

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