[Xastir] maps

[Curt Mills, WE7U]

On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, J. Lance Cotton wrote:

> To further generalize, could the map chooser and map properties functions be 
> rewritten to modify the dbfawk and geo files to store the per-map prefs 
> there instead of in the map index. As it is, if I (in the process of 
> debugging or something) have a problem with map files not indexing right, I 
> just trash the index. Of course that erases my layer settings and fill 
> settings. If we only stored the map index (bounds, filename, timestamp) in 
> the map index, we could store the prefs in a less volatile area.

You sure about that?  I remember doing a mod to the map indexing code
some months back to attempt to save that sort of info during
indexing.  Perhaps there's a bug in what I did.  Just wondering if
you've tried it lately, under controlled conditions?

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