I'm not trying to start an argument... so please forgive. But just one
or two extra points. 1) Unix is only one platform that Xastir runs on.
One of it's bragging points is how many other systems it can run on.
2) I will find a way to overlay a timestamp, the point was I wanted
the file created by snapshot to stay the same, I just wanted some way
of knowing what time it was made. 3) Isn't adding convenient little
changes the point of open software? Or at least one of them.
Anyway like I said I'm not trying to start anything if the consensus
is to not do it then I'll follow one of your suggestions about adding
my own.
Thanks guys....
On Jun 12, 2009, at 5:10 PM, Curt, WE7U wrote:
On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, Curt, WE7U wrote:
On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, Keith Kaiser wrote:
On the other hand, adding the time to the upper or lower, right
hand side of the title bar would not exactly be intrusive would
it. I wasn't thinking of a watermark but a clock running on in
Xastir and showing the time in one of the title bars.
I agree that it wouldn't be intrusive. It would however:
*) Cause more screen changes for those running VNC, which causes
more network traffic to try to replicate those changes on the remote
display.
*) Open the door to many more "little" changes that would end up
integrating facilities into Xastir that are already available in
Linux/Unix as separate apps. This is against the Unix philosophy of
chaining small tools together to get the job done. Not that we
_always_ follow this philosophy with Xastir, but we try to!
The code for creating snapshots is in maps.c:snapshot_thread(). I'd
suggest either adding the timestamp code there using GM/IM (inside
the "#ifdef HAVE_CONVERT" block near the end), or creating a script
that monitors the snapshot directory and processes any snapshot file
found, putting the modified version in a new directory. The latter
would be the easiest/fastest to get running.
I'd be happy to help as time permitted, but the suggested first
activity would be a search through the list archives to see if it's
already been done and code posted. We could add the script to the
xastir/scripts/ directory also so that others could benefit.
Here's one earlier thread on the topic, there may be more:
http://lists.xastir.org/pipermail/xastir/2003-September/002698.html
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