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[Tom Robson]

>I couldn't get 1,2 &3 to occur.
>
>But this is my sequence now. 
>I had interfaces disabled
>Had snapshot selected
>Then enabled the RF interface
>A snapshot ocurred about 5 minutes later.
>As soon as the next station was received, the screen went stationless.
>Moved screen and stations came back.
>This occured on the next snapshot 5 minutes later again, but not on 
>subsequent ones.
>
>The trigger is the station being received slightly after the snapshot has 
>occured.  Enabling and disabling interfaces doesn't seem to have any bearing 
>on it.
>
>Tom
>
>On October  6, 2003 07:31 pm, Orrin Winton wrote:
>> I don't know if it's the snapshots that make the
>> stations go away.  What i see is the following:
>>
>> 1.  Run Xastir, with no RF nor internet interfaces up.
>>
>> 2.  I load a map, any map i have on my HD.  My own
>>     station appears.
>>
>> 3.  Less than 5 minutes later, my own station disappears.
>>
>> 4.  I start up the RF interface.  The status bar, lower
>>     left corner, shows new stations coming in, but no
>>     stations are posted to the map.
>>
>> 5.  If i then do Map -> Map Chooser -> Clear -> OK,
>>     and close the map chooser, my map disappears like
>>     it should, and all the stations with their icons
>>     appear on the blank white background.
>>
>> 6.  I then re-load a map.  The stations all remain on
>>     map.  A few minutes later, all stations disappear.
>>     It just happened at 7:28 pm, and then i checked the
>>     timestamp for snapshot.xpm and snapshot.geo, and it
>>     was 7:28 pm.  So maybe it is connected to taking the
>>     snapshot.
>>
>> orrin wn1z
>>
>> --
>>
>> --------- Original Message ---------
>>
>> DATE: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 15:53:17
>> From: Tom Robson <ve7did at dccnet.com>
>> To: "Curt Mills, WE7U" <hacker at tc.fluke.com>
>> Cc: Orrin Winton <oakenshieldd at lycos.com>,<xastir at xastir.org>
>>
>> >On October  6, 2003 01:59 pm, Curt Mills, WE7U wrote:
>> >> On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Tom Robson wrote:
>> >> > I'll confirm that as well, although I can't get any exact sequence. 
>> >> > It seems eratic, although it is initiated by the snapshot button. 
>> >> > Screen looses all the stations and they will reappear with moving the
>> >> > screen.
>> >> >
>> >> > ...73 Tom
>> >> >
>> >> > On October  4, 2003 09:21 pm, Orrin Winton wrote:
>> >> > > I'm finding that the .png/.geo snapshots have
>> >> > > this problem:
>> >> > >
>> >> > > I load the map.  The stations appear on the map.
>> >> > > About 250 seconds later, all the stations
>> >>
>> >> Is it that when snapshots occur, the stations go away, and when the
>> >> first station comes in on local RF and gets drawn, some short amount
>> >> of time after that all the other stations come back on the map?
>> >> Until a station comes in on RF, the map remains devoid of stations?
>> >>
>> >> Does the same thing happen if you're on an internet feed and getting
>> >> lots of stations regularly?
>> >
>> >Ok, think I got it.   I have 2 interfaces net & RF.  With both off no
>> >problem, screen never goes stationless.  If I start EITHER interface the
>> >first station that comes on, makes the screen go stationless.  It will
>> > stay like that forever until you move the screen with the arrow buttons.
>> >
>> >Well.... it did that twice, then it changes.  It even did it once after
>> > the button was released.  It generally does it about 5-10 seconds after
>> > the button is button is depressed.
>> >
>> >It is not consistant and hard to duplicate.  Gotta run, I'll check later.
>> >How long after you press the button, is the first snapshop taken?  Hard to
>> >tell as there are no seconds on the file time stamp.
>> >
>> >...73 Tom
>>
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