[Xastir] Time

[Keith Kaiser]

I'm not trying to start an argument... so please forgive. But just one  
or two extra points. 1) Unix is only one platform that Xastir runs on.  
One of it's bragging points is how many other systems it can run on.  
2) I will find a way to overlay a timestamp, the point was I wanted  
the file created by snapshot to stay the same, I just wanted some way  
of knowing what time it was made. 3) Isn't adding convenient little  
changes the point of open software? Or at least one of them.

Anyway like I said I'm not trying to start anything if the consensus  
is to not do it then I'll follow one of your suggestions about adding  
my own.

Thanks guys....


On Jun 12, 2009, at 5:10 PM, Curt, WE7U wrote:

> On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, Curt, WE7U wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, Keith Kaiser wrote:
>>
>>> On the other hand, adding the time to the upper or lower, right  
>>> hand side of the title bar would not exactly be intrusive would  
>>> it. I wasn't thinking of a watermark but a clock running on in  
>>> Xastir and showing the time in one of the title bars.
>>
>> I agree that it wouldn't be intrusive.  It would however:
>>
>> *) Cause more screen changes for those running VNC, which causes
>> more network traffic to try to replicate those changes on the remote
>> display.
>>
>> *) Open the door to many more "little" changes that would end up
>> integrating facilities into Xastir that are already available in
>> Linux/Unix as separate apps.  This is against the Unix philosophy of
>> chaining small tools together to get the job done.  Not that we
>> _always_ follow this philosophy with Xastir, but we try to!
>>
>> The code for creating snapshots is in maps.c:snapshot_thread().  I'd
>> suggest either adding the timestamp code there using GM/IM (inside
>> the "#ifdef HAVE_CONVERT" block near the end), or creating a script
>> that monitors the snapshot directory and processes any snapshot file
>> found, putting the modified version in a new directory.  The latter
>> would be the easiest/fastest to get running.
>>
>> I'd be happy to help as time permitted, but the suggested first
>> activity would be a search through the list archives to see if it's
>> already been done and code posted.  We could add the script to the
>> xastir/scripts/ directory also so that others could benefit.
>
> Here's one earlier thread on the topic, there may be more:
>
> http://lists.xastir.org/pipermail/xastir/2003-September/002698.html
>
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Keith Kaiser
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