[Xastir] Desired object/item operation?

[Josh Keller]

What about doing something similar to National Geographic Topo....in Topo
you can create waypoints, markers, routes, bearing lines, labels etc...and
can save all of that information to a single file. When we conduct a search
I start off by saving a file with the date...then whenever I make changes I
resave, that way I can pull the same screen back up if the system crashes. I
can also come back months later and load that search for any number of
reasons, it does come in handy.

What about creating a "save" feature, which would save all the objects,
stations, drawings, tracks, etc. on the screen and at that point clear the
main log file out. That way you would not lose anything if the system
crashes because it is constantly saved in the log, yet it also gives a clean
and easy way to start fresh, yet maintaining all of that information for
later. 

Of course that would also come with a load feature, which would load all of
that information back at once...for reviewing a mission, printing a map 3
months later, etc.

Maybe something similar does exist, I've not been able to figure it out
though.

Josh
KD7ZYW

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From: xastir-bounces at xastir.org [mailto:xastir-bounces at xastir.org] On Behalf
Of Curt, WE7U
Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 09:14
To: Xastir-Dev at krypton.hscs.Virginia.EDU
Cc: xastir at krypton.hscs.Virginia.EDU
Subject: [Xastir] Desired object/item operation?


Tweaking the object/items stuff a bit.  Noticed some incorrect
logging of items in the object.log file which I fixed.  That'll get
checked in shortly.

While working on that I noticed some inconsistent operation.  It has
to do with creating objects/items, moving them around, killing them,
and then creating new objects/items with the same names.

If you do that while Xastir is running continuously, you get
tracklines from the old killed objects to the new.  You'll see all
positions of both.

If you do that and then kill/restart Xastir, causing it to load the
object.log file on startup that way, you only get tracks for the
"new" objects/items.  The tracks do not go back to the old positions
before the initial kill.

For SAR I'd like to have a persistent display across restarts.
Right now the displays are different across a restart.

What is the desired operation here?

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