[Xastir] CAD object transmissions?

[Tom Russo]

On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 12:19:58PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <acraiga at pacbell.net> flavor, containing:
>  HI all,
>  	We had talked a bit about this functionality but I
>  don't remember anyone saying any specifics about putting
>  this into the code.  How do all the developer folks feel
>  about this?  Is this something that is planned?  Rejected?
>  Cogitating on it?  Already hacked in?  :-)

Planned.  Cogitating.

I am cogitating actively, as I have *another* desired feature that needs
multiline objects.

But don't hold your breath unless you want to hack on it.

>  On May 16, 2007, at 3:54 PM, Curt, WE7U wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 16 May 2007, Tom Russo wrote:
> >
> >> Make two objects at the centroid of the area: one with the attributes in 
> >> the
> >> status text, the other with the multiline data in the status text.  
> >> Wouldn't
> >> require a spec change, and would display on any client that parses 
> >> multiline
> >> objects.
> >
> > Seems like a reasonable approach.  As long as the multiline object
> > could hold enough vertice information.  That appears doubtful to me.
> >
> > Perhaps one could create a "trimmed-down" multiline that gave the
> > major components of the shape, then additional multiline objects for
> > those clients that could piece all of them together into one object.
> >
> > --
> > Curt, WE7U.   APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer
> > "Lotto:    A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown
> > "Windows:  Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- WE7U
> > "The world DOES revolve around me:  I picked the coordinate system!"

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