Fwd: Re: [Xastir] Xastir responding to ?APRSS

[Alex Carver]

Ok, this was supposed to go to the list not directly
to Tom.

--- Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 09:49:14AM -0700, we
> recorded a bogon-computron collision of the
> <kf4lvz at yahoo.com> flavor, containing:
> > Forwarded as per Tom's suggestion (originally part
> of
> > a long string of emails)
> 
> As a summary of the missing bits of the
> conversation:
> 
> - Some APRS clients will pop up an incoming message
> box when a message is
>   received addressed to an object owned by that
> station.
> - This behavior was counted on by Bob Bruninga when
> he advocated setting up
>   "XXX-n" objects for Field Day "blind contacts" on
> APRS
> - Xastir doesn't do this.  The decode_message
> function checks only if the 
>   message is addressed to our own callsign-ssid or
> base call sign (no SSID).
> - Right now, to check an object for ownership, you
> have to call 
>   is_my_object_item  with a DataRow pointer, not a
> call sign.  We have
>   a function "is_my_call" that takes a call sign and
> checks if it's ours,
>   but no similar function to check if a named object
> is ours.
> 

Would it be sufficient to check the list of stations
using search_station_name() (which I found in
objects.c) to locate the entry in the objects list and
then check its flags?


 


 
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