[Xastir] Placing Markers on map

[Curt, WE7U]

On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, Brett Friermood wrote:

> I found the CAD Polygons work very well for my application.
>
> I was just wondering if there is a way to save what information is
> displayed? At the moment when I start Xastir the polygons show up with the
> probability and area under the name. If I go into Maps, Draw CAD Polygons,
> and uncheck probability and area they disappear as the should. If I shutdown
> Xastir, when I start it next the options are again checked and the
> information shows up again.

The CAD Polygons were a work in progress that ran out of progress.
There are/were things planned for them that haven't been implemented
yet, and perhaps we (I?) forgot to do some saving of some settings
here and there in the config file too.  That's easily remedied when
I have a few minutes of free time.

I'd also like to save the state of the buttons at the top of the
View Message Traffic dialog, as I want the "TNC" setting at home but
it isn't saved, so I have to hit it each time I open the dialog.

A few buttons are not saved on purpose, but none of the above
examples are in that category.


> Also, I had an idea of having the ability to choose whether an object is
> transmitted on an individual basis in addition to the global option under
> interfaces. If this was the case local objects could be used for such things
> as this, among other purposes, but you would still be able to transmit
> objects at the same time.

I've had the same idea of having a per-object transmit enable.  I'd
also need methods to check which objects set to/not to transmit,
perhaps in a list format.  This is to assure that "sensitive"
information doesn't leak out.  So...  It's a bit more work and
needs to be done carefully/thoughtfully so that the user interface
is very clear as to the state of each.  Perhaps special colors or
polygons around each object that is private?

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