[Xastir] maps

[J. Lance Cotton]

Curt Mills, WE7U wrote:
> 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?

I'm sure it stays if you tell Xastir to re-index. But I was just deleting 
the map_index.sys file. Can't very well save that!

-Lance

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