[Xastir] Another track glitch?/feature, ongoing

[Tom Russo]

On Sun, Oct 02, 2011 at 01:55:08PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <russo at bogodyn.org> flavor, containing:
> On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 08:48:24AM +1300, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <dexy at ihug.co.nz> flavor, containing:
> > Greetings!
> > 
> >  
> > 
> >    Now with latest 2.0.1 via cvs, but this noticed on first try, back in
> > 1.8.x days, now with Debian, but does it on Mandrake and ubuntu too:
> > 
> >  
> > 
> >    Track a station that is NOT on screen, track draws from requested start
> > time to last / current position. Good clean track.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> >    Track a station that is ALREADY on screen.  Track draws from
> > CURRENT/last? position to requested start.. a loop, messy screen!

Wait --- are you referring to "Track Station" or "Fetch Findu Trail?"

If you mean "Fetch Findu Trail", then I understand exactly what you mean:
the downloaded Findu trail is treated by Xastir as if it were new, incoming data
and is added to the stations track as if it were new data.  For good or ill,
this is a side-effect of how "Fetch Findu Trail" works --- the raw APRS 
packets from the Findu raw packet page are run through the parser as if they 
were an incoming stream, timestamps ignored, just as if they'd all come in to 
the TNC right this second.  So the behavior you see for a station that's 
already been heard from make sense.

There is no "switch" to change this behavior, as it's normal and a consequence 
of how the feature works.  The only way to work around it would be to clear 
the station's track before trying to download the findu trail.

If you're talking about "Track Station" then I have no idea what's causing
it.

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