[Xastir] Feature Request-Zooming and html.

[Chris Abbott]

Oops, sorry about that, I guess I should have done some research first,
glad we have those features. Thanks.

73

KD5WCR


On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 16:03, Curt, WE7U wrote:
> On Wed, 5 May 2004, Chris Abbott wrote:
> 
> > Hey, I just thought of this. How about a feature where you create a zoom
> > box and zoom in on the area of the box. I just think that would be
> > easier to zoom in on a certain spot, than having to center and pan.
> 
> We've had that for a very long time.  I click both buttons (or the
> middle button if using a three-button mouse) to zoom out by a factor
> of two, then click-drag-release with the left button in order to
> zoom in to roughly the size of the box that I dragged across.  I
> don't tend to use the pan buttons much because of this.
> 
> 
> > (this is really minor), what if there were a way to have Xastir generate
> > html code with snapshots of current maps(kind of like JavAPRS, just not
> > in java). This one isn't of much concern, since Xastir can take
> > snapshots and you can create a script to ftp or if the web-server is
> > local, just have it save in that directory.
> 
> I've set up Apache before so that it has a very simple HTML page
> which includes an image.  The image is then a link back to the
> snapshot file in the snapshot directory that Xastir is using.  I
> think I had to make one small tweak to the Apache config file in
> order to allow it to follow the symlink.  It was easy.  There are
> others that are doing similar things with the snapshot file.
> 
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