[Xastir] Re: Xastir Digest, Vol 32, Issue 19

[Gerry Creager]

Feedback I've gotten from NWS on their preferences for severe wx, 
spotters and radar is to have radar atop everything except spotters.

That said, everyone is able to change layers as they see fit...

gerry

tom.white at gmail.com wrote:
> Why not just set the radar layer as the bottom layer and draw everything on
> top of that? I think you have to turn on automaps for it to work correctly,
> though.
> 
> On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 10:38 AM, <xastir-request at xastir.org> wrote:
> 
>> What he was looking for was a way to make the radar
>> image translucent inside Xastir so that any other
>> layers inside Xastir would show through the colored
>> areas of the radar image.  However, since Xastir
>> doesn't support alpha blending at the moment, this
>> can't be done.  I don't believe the image code in
>> Xastir would even honor any alpha channel data in a
>> GIF either.
>>
>> Just another tick mark for Xastir 2, right? :)
>>
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