[Xastir] New features

[Tom Russo]

On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 11:06:42AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <n7ipb at wetnet.net> flavor, containing:
> 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.  

Hah.  Funny, I was just opening the mail program to complain about this very 
thing.

I find that all the settings of "temp_course" in db.c were changed by your
last commit to that, and they all replaced the degree character that was there
with a unicode version --- and now it displays wrong.

In a standard en-us (not UTF-8) window, the old code had "<B0>", and now it has <EF><BF><BD>"

I tried inserting the UTF-8 degree symbol as a composit character, but now it 
shows up as <C2><B0> instead of just <B0> like it had always been.  And *THAT*
shows up as the Angstrom symbol followed by the degree symbol in the map 
window.

I found, however, that replacing all of those direct-entered special characters
with "\xB0" returned function to normal. 

I can fix it in cvs that way if you'd like.  Or you can.

The change from the <B0> character to the triple <EF><BF><BD> happened in
every file where those characters appeared.  Are you running an editor that
is "fixing" characters for you automatically?  A change like that shouldn't
be happening unbidden.

> 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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