Curt, WE7U wrote:
On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, Jim Tolbert wrote:
What I (think I) want is to be able to replay a search at high speed
(2 sec = 5 minutes or something like that). I currently have 4 GPS
trackers for SAR and want to eventually have about 20. I think I want
a slide show. Then I could adjust the timing for the slideshow to
show the progression of the tracks. When I use the play back of the
log files. I get all the points showing up sequentially but quite
rapid and then the point labels going away being replaced by a
colored track.
I was kind'a thinking that you might want a slideshow type of thing
to further your APRS tracking agenda (indoctrinate?).
yup ... one trick pony <grin>
The VCR mode sounds great, but I suppose the easier way to do it will
be to use a script. So.... ( and here is a stupid question ) a
quick look in my openSUSE book doesn't have much about scripts....
do I want a PERL book?
Do you really want to get into programming?
The last language I was good with was Fortran IV. I have done some with
Visual Basic and C++ , mostly mimicry. I enjoy it, but am waaaaay
behind the curve.
It'd probably be easier if one (or more) of us worked on something
that would serve your purposes.
That would be great if someone was interested in it.
Do you have Perl available on your
Xastir box you'll be using for the exercise?
I don't know. I have openSUSE 11.0 on one laptop and VMware with the
xunbuntu - Xastir image on another. So.,.... probably not?? But is
that something I can download?
What frequency of updates for the snapshots are you after? Would it
work to just control the snapshot rate from the slider in Xastir,
and have a Perl script monitoring for new "snapshot.png" files in
the directory and copying/renaming them as they appear? If so,
that's not super hard to accomplish. Xastir can do snapshots every
minute or any number of minutes in between them up to 30 minutes
between, without modifying Xastir sources.
Yes... using the slider to set the rate of the snapshot creation is
great. Then a slideshow program to control the playback speed.
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