[Xastir] Help! I'm stuck in usradar.geo and can't get out!

[Jerry Chamberlin]

Amen, I will second the automaps. If one has just a few maps it's fine, but when
I downloaded 1137 maps - automaps really sucks up the CPU. 

On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Curt Mills wrote:

> On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Rick Green wrote:
> 
> >   WHat's the definition of the 'automaps' switch?  I find that I can't get
> > any maps to display unless I enable automaps for that map.  So why does it
> > exist if it always has to be on?
> 
> Ah, there's the problem.  That was the original way to have Xastir
> load maps that fit the proper screen.  I never use that anymore.
> That's why you're having maps that you don't have selected end up
> getting loaded anyway.  Turn that off and then repeat your
> experiments with maps.
> 
> With automaps on, the entire selection process is under Xastir's
> control, and it loads ALL maps that might fit on the screen.
> Basically you don't want to use that anymore except when you've set
> things up carefully in Map Chooser->Properties so that only certain
> sets of maps might be loaded that way.  Even then, I don't use it
> anymore.
> 
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