[Xastir] Query on symbol ghosting

[Lee Bengston]

To Xastir development team,

Please use the program as much as possible for your own use so that bugs
annoy you and get fixed. :-)

Lee - K5DAT

P. S.  Thanks for the updates, Curt.  My 8 year old daughter likes to watch
the planes on screen and then runs to the door to look outside when she
knows one is coming close.
On Mar 11, 2016 3:33 PM, "Curt Mills" <curt.we7u at gmail.com> wrote:

> Changes checked in. Note the new instructions for dump1090 (which fork of
> it to use) as well as new command-line parameters for starting it up.
> Switch to that and you'll receive a lot more airplane packets on the RTL
> dongles.
>
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 9:45 AM, Curt Mills <curt.we7u at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Never mind. There's a menu option called: "Include Expired Data" which
> > makes expired data pop up again if people want to see it, so I'll just
> make
> > the callsigns and other bits attached to symbols go away when the symbol
> > ghosts if that option is not enabled. Keeps the screen uncluttered.
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 8:54 AM, Curt Mills <curt.we7u at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> This week I fixed a bug having to do with proximity circles/hurricane
> >> circles/tracked-station circles not ghosting when the symbol ghosts. I
> >> haven't checked in those changes yet but they are forthcoming.
> >>
> >> There are most likely additional "things" attached to symbols which do
> >> not ghost, so I'll be looking at most of the rest of the things that
> attach
> >> to symbols with this in mind (in draw_symbols.c mostly).
> >>
> >> Question: Should the callsign/tactical-callsign ghost as well?  If so,
> >> should it go to reduced brightness like the symbol, or should it
> disappear
> >> altogether?
> >>
> >> Right now I'm leaning towards the latter. When I'm tracking airplanes
> and
> >> the symbols ghost, the callsigns stick around at full brightness
> cluttering
> >> up the screen until the station gets deleted entirely from the database.
> >>
> >> BTW: I have quite a few more improvements for the airplane tracking,
> >> including decoding a LOT more airplane packets via a different fork of
> >> dump1090 + new command-line parameters to go with it. I'll check those
> in
> >> soon too.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Curt, WE7U
> >> http://wetnet.net/~we7u
> >> http://www.sarguydigital.com
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Curt, WE7U
> > http://wetnet.net/~we7u
> > http://www.sarguydigital.com
> >
>
>
>
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> Curt, WE7U
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