[Xastir] Saving serial snapshots

[Jim Tolbert]

I don't understand "cron job", but your description of just a static 
image that you can't zoom and pan would be great.  Basicially, just one 
screen shot after the next, but displayed at a rate you can watch ( not 
too slow and not too fast <grin>)

James Ewen wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Jim Tolbert <RiverRidge at centurytel.net> wrote:
>
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>> Stay tuned.... I am off to try it.
>>     
>
> I'm thinking you guys are all going overboard.
>
> It sounds like all Jim needs to do, is to have Xastir save a snapshot
> every 5 minutes, and then have a cron job set up that copies the
> latest image to a storage directory, renaming the file (possibly with
> a timestamp) when it moves it.
>
> This means that the instance of Xastir needs to be focused on the area
> of interest, and that you do not have the capability of zooming in and
> out to see specific areas.
>
> Dynamic playback with the ability to move the map around, zooming in
> on areas of interest during the replay would be cool, but quite a bit
> more work than snapshots and cron jobs.
>
> James
> VE6SRV
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