[Xastir] Feature Request

[Tom Russo]

On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 09:49:20AM -0800, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <archer at eskimo.com> flavor, containing:
> On Tue, 22 Dec 2009, J Hunter wrote:
> 
> > My Feeling is "Locked means Locked". But I do not know how hard it would be 
> > to script the lock feature on the rest of the items.
> 
> It's difficult trying to figure out what people really want when all
> the edge cases start creeping in, so I'll wait to see if anyone else
> cares about it.

For my money, map lock's main value is to prevent *accidental* moving of the
map.  There are many times I'd use it --- my laptop's touchpad has a little
"scroll wheel" area that is easy to bump while moving the cursor, and as
soon as I cross into it the map starts panning up and down.  So having a 
map lock feature that disables moving the map by mouse motion is a Good Thing.

Disabling map motion due to menu commands seems wrong.  Commands whose whole
purpose is to recenter the map on something (track, find) or to position
the map precisely (map bookmarks) ought not to be disabled as a matter of
course.  

If you *do* implement locked-means-locked and disable map motion by all
those menu commands, then you'd need to be sure to grey out all the menu 
entries.

I'd probably find the feature much less useful and more annoying if it were
implemented that way.

> >> Done.  I did NOT implement the zoom/pan lock for the following
> >> features:
> >>
> >>     display_zoom_image
> >>     Track_Me
> >>     last map position
> >>     track_gui.c:Track_station()
> >>     Find Station
> >>     Map Display Bookmarks
> 
> I believe "display_zoom_image" is a helper script that other
> functions call.  We wouldn't want to put the lock on that one
> directly.  Ignore that one in the list above.
> 
> More comments anyone?  This is your chance to get it working the way
> you'd like!

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