[Xastir] A success report and an inquiry

[Curt, WE7U]

On Fri, 6 Jul 2007 jdw at eng.uah.edu wrote:

> how feasible/useful is it for stuff like this to be configurable from the
> config file, but not actually have a GUI tie-in?  Would it help features
> get into the code a little more quickly if it could be done by editing the
> config file manually?

As far as I'm concerned, yes.  It's easier to add things to the
config file than to the GUI.  If added to the GUI, most have to be
added to the config file saving/restoring as well anyway.  It's just
that the GUI is hard to deal with at present as it's all hand-coded.


> For example, I'd like to see the GNIS levels configurable at a level
> higher than editing source code.  Of course, given that the latest GNIS
> format is less than useful, maybe I should just convert what I have to
> shapefiles and use a dbfawk to scratch that particular itch.

Or create new GNIS files somehow?

I expect it won't be long until we get into Xastir-2 discussions
again, at which point we can start fighting over cool things like
which back-end database(s) to support, which widget sets to support,
etc.  Or we can all break into separate groups and duke these things
out in separate sessions.  Maybe I should do some searches over the
weekend, pull out some good previous discussions, and either repost
them or put them up on the web somewhere (a Wiki page or three
perhaps?) and we can start thinking about what we want in the
future.

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