[Xastir] County names layer

[Keith Kaiser]

OK, I can live with that. How about question #2, any idea how I can do  
this same thing with the new 2008 Tiger maps.... while mobile?

Thanks again...

On May 8, 2009, at 6:06 PM, Curt, WE7U wrote:

> On Fri, 8 May 2009, Jason KG4WSV wrote:
>
>> On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Keith Kaiser <wa0tjt at gmail.com>  
>> wrote:
>>> The problem is the county names still lie under the labels of the  
>>> stations.
>>
>> Aren't the station labels _always_ on top?  I don' think you can  
>> raise
>> the map above the station.
>
> Correct.  We do this:
>
> 1) draw maps->pixmap1
>
> 2) copy pixmap1 -> pixmap2
>  draw weather alerts onto pixmap2
>
> 3) copy pixmap2 -> pixmap3
>  draw stations & tracks onto pixmap3
>
> 4) copy pixmap3 -> display
>
> There are valid reasons for doing it this way, mostly for
> speedups/efficiencies, as most of the time we just have to do #3 and
> #4, and only when new weather alerts come in do we start at #2.  We
> very seldom start processing at #1 except for perhaps mobile Xastir.
>
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73's
Keith Kaiser
wa0tjt at gmail.com