[Xastir] Festival and Weather Alerts ?

[William McKeehan]

It may be saying "New Weather Alert", but I don't hear the word "New" (and I
just checked my language file and it does say ("New Weather Alert"). I had
traced it to the same line of code...I'm pretty sure that's where this message
is comming from also.

Adding the additional string does sound like a good short term fix.

In the long term, I would like to hear a little detail about the new weather
alert (ideally, I would like to set a proximity and only hear those near me).
At a minimum I would like to hear the State/County/Type of alert - in looking
at the alert_entry, this looks like it will not be so easy.

> Is it saying "Weather Alert" and the number or "New Weather Alert" and
> the number?  I ask because this alert appears to be defined in main.c at
> about line 10293.  The textual portion comes from SPCHSTR009.  In the
> English langfile that is "New Weather Alert".
>
>
> In the short term, what if we added another SPCHSTR of "Weather Alerts
> Active".  That way on a new Weather Alert it could say --
>
> "New Weather Alert.  22 Weather Alerts Active"
>
> At defined intervals it could say --
>
> "22 Weather Alerts Active"
>
> I can whip up the first pretty quickly and the second after a bit of
> thought.
>
> 			THX/BDH
>
>
> On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 15:58, William McKeehan wrote:
>> I figured it out...that is telling me that there are some new alerts and the
>> number is the new total number of active alerts.
>>
>> > On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, William McKeehan wrote:
>> >
>> >> I had not paid much attention to this before, but now I hear the weather
>> >> alerts. I get a message that says something like:
>> >>
>> >> Weather Alert 8
>> >> Weather Alert 23
>> >>
>> >> What is this telling me?
>> >
>> > Not a whole lot.  Seems like it should say something more.  At least
>> > the state where the alert is happening.
>> >
>> >
>> >> Where can I go in Xastir to see the information from
>> >> the alert?
>> >
>> > View->Weather Alerts.  Also if you have the proper Shapefiles from
>> > NOAA loaded, you should see the alerts popping up on top of
>> > your maps.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Curt, WE7U			         http://www.eskimo.com/~archer
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>> >
>> >
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