[Xastir] Station Info dialog change

[William McKeehan]

I missed over this e-mail in my inbox and just now noticed it as I was doing
some clean-up.

Yes, I'm proposing that the Comment and Status lines be put below "Distance
from my station:" but above the "Last Position:" line.

And the reasoning is for stations that have multiple comments lines (such as a
balloon or OpenTracker device), this makes it much easier to see the "Current
Power Gain" and "Distance from my station" without scrolling down in the
dialog box.

-- 
William McKeehan

On Sun, December 24, 2006 1:13 am, Curt Mills wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Dec 2006, William McKeehan wrote:
>
>> I'm watching a balloon today (WB8ELK-12) and have the Station Info dialog
>> box
>> up with Automatic Updated enabled. The balloon sends it's battery voltage,
>> temperature, HDOP and #Sats in view in it's comment, so I have a list of
>> comments. This list of past comments (the history is very valuable to keep
>> and
>> have visible) pushes down the other important bits of information (Altitude,
>> course, speed, etc.).
>>
>> How difficult would it be to move the comments down below this information
>> just above last position?
>
> It can certainly be done.  Note also that if there's any weather
> info for a station it appears before all of that other information
> in the dialog.
>
> First:  Xastir will only store/display 10 status lines and 10
> comment lines, throwing away the oldest when a newer one comes in.
> It does this by uniqueness, so if a station sends one that was seen
> before then Xastir will just move it up to the top of the list.  So,
> you can get up to 20 lines of this info listed.
>
> You're proposing that we put the Comment and Status lines below
> "Distance from my station:" but above the "Last Position:" line?
>
> --
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