[Xastir] Some observations with the recent CVS release

[Curt, WE7U]

On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, Curt, WE7U wrote:

> On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, William McKeehan wrote:
>
> > I don't use the track feature very often (althought I would like
> > to see it work more like APRS+SA where you can track multiple
> > stations), so I don't have an opinion on the tracking staying from
> > one session to another.
>
> I used to use APRS+SA a bit.  I know how that tracking works.  If
> others feel the same way about it we could certainly change the way
> Xastir works so that it compares to a list of tracked stations
> instead of just one.  I can imagine both simple and difficult ways
> to do this in the UI:
>
> It'd be really slick to have a dialog similar to the Interface
> Control dialog, where you can add stations to the list, and perhaps
> add an enable/disable button to one side of each callsign, keeping
> the global tracking enable/disable as well.  That would take quite a
> bit of code to implement though.
>
> The simple way would be to have another toggle which would cause
> Xastir to look up the matching callsigns in a file.  Text-edit the
> file using whatever means you have at-hand.  Have Xastir check the
> timestamp on the file periodically and if newer, re-read the file.

Somewhere-in-the-middle mode:  Allow for a very long line where you
currently type in the callsign plus allow a comma-separated list of
callsigns.

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