[Xastir] New features

[Ken Koster]

A heads up for those testing the latest.
Bug #1,
Wherever a degree symbol is supposed to be printed it shows as multiple 
extended characters.  (station config, weather)
I'm not sure how this happened but the checked in main.c and draw_symbols.c 
files had the degree symbol changed.  On my system changing it back ends up 
displaying two characters.   It's all unicode related.  

On Friday, April 22, 2016 7:55:05 PM PDT Ken Koster wrote:
> Yeah, I know.  Some will think the floodgates have opened but a couple of
> new features have been checked in.
> 
> Station Text selection now has a new option 'DropShadow'.   Why?  Because it
> kind of fell out of the text resizing work and I thought it looked good.
> Don't like it?  Don't select it.
> 
> Station - Filter Data:
> 	Select Aircraft Objects/Items
> 	Select Vessel Objects/Items
> They both default to on so we get the exact behavior we've always had.
> 
> File - Configure - Timing:
> 	Aircraft Ghost/Clear Time in minutes
> Being near a major airport and harbor as I am it doesn't take much use of
> Curt's ais and adb-s perl scripts to completely fill the screen with tracks
> of aircraft and ships.   I've had the screen look like a racetrack with all
> the planes taking off and landing at SeaTac over a one hour period.  Even
> the lowest value of the Station Clear Time is too long so I took advantage
> of the existing space to add another slider.  It selects the time at which
> aircraft symbols will ghost so the text doesn't clutter the screen.   It
> also affects the time at which the ghosted symbols and tracks will be
> cleared.  Set the Aircraft ghost time to 5 minutes and the clear time will
> be 25 minutes (Aircraft Ghost Time * 5).
> - Note:   This slider does not effect the ghost/clear times of anything
> other than the aircraft symbols.   Set it to 0 and it doesn't even do that.
>  The default is 0 so it doesn't affect what everyone is used to.
> 
> Plus there were a couple of tweaks to the scripts by Curt to handle some
> corner case error conditions and I added decoding of the AIS type 4 and 21
> messages to ais.pl
> 
> Check it out,  have fun,  any bugs etc....   You know the drill.


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