Hi Robert, On Monday, 28 January 2019 08:33:15 CET Robert Helling wrote: > As you mention, dive mode is now a time dependent property as there can be > bailout (historically, it was per dive and bailout was indicated by setting > po2 to 0), so the setting in the dive computer is only about the initial > dive mode before the first event that changes it. Note that also events > (and thus in particular dive mode changes) are per dive computer and not > per dive. I agree that most of the time all computer should agree about the > question of what you are breathing. But please note that in particular for > planned dives the different “dive computers” are also our vehicle of > storing different versions of the same dive (e.g. for bailout planning or > comparing the actual dive with the original plan). And for those versions > it can be that they differ in what they believe what the dive mode is at > 42min into the dive. > > It gets even more curious when multiple dives are selected. Then the n-th > > dive computer of all these dives will have their mode edited. Is that > > correct? > I agree that this makes less and less sense. If anything, all dive modes > should be changed (so a user can turn her last ten dives into CCR dives of > which the dive computer wasn’t aware of as it was in gauge mode). > > Does that make sense?
Thank you for the explanations. I kind-of get it now. The semantics on edit are really surprising (modify the n-th DC unless it doesn't exist in which case modify the default DC), but let's keep it that way until someone complains. Berthold _______________________________________________ subsurface mailing list [email protected] http://lists.subsurface-divelog.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface
