In APRSIS32, each tracked station gets its own window. I have a window centered on my location, and track others in the own little world. ;)
Best regards, Fred, N7FMH > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Curt, WE7U > Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 12:50 > To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion > Subject: Re: [Xastir] Suggestion > > On Thu, 24 Jan 2013, Chip G. wrote: > > > I've long had an interest in a certain feature for Xastir. > Then I noticed that aprs.fi had the feature. So I started > thinking about it and how it might be implemented. Now my > programming skills are too rusty/weak to do the coding > myself, but I have some ideas that make me think it ought to > be relatively straight forward to implement. > > > > What I am interested in seeing is a feature to track more > than one station (at least two, more might be possible but > does increase the complexity). In some ways it is very > similar to redrawing the screen by using the mouse. The user > clicks on location on the screen, drags the mouse, then > releases. The program uses the two points (click & release) > to determine the map zoom. If tracking two stations then you > can use the same strategy (but one would likely want to zoom > a little wider than that so that one isn't constantly > zooming). If you have three points (stations) then you would > create two points by combining the furthest west with the > furthest north and then the furthest east with the furthest > south (and add a little bit). > > Have you seen how APRS+SA works when tracking multiple > stations? You put in multiple callsigns and it spends > something like 5 or 10 seconds on a map view for each one, > sequencing through the different map views in round-robin > fashion. It's actually a bit distracting to watch it do > that, but kind'a cool also. > > > > Implementation thoughts: > > -- Basic: use existing dialog, parse the comma separated list > > -- Advanced: add a menu choice and dialog for tracking preferences, > > add a preference for max zoom in, add a preference for max zoom out > > (if all can't be fit on the screen it would focus on the > first listed > > station), add a preference for percentage of zoom margin > when fitting > > all stations, add a dialog with separate boxes for each > station to be > > tracked > > That last is interesting. We already have code for figuring > out a zoom box via mouse clicks, so invoking the same or > similar code based on station max distance X/Y wouldn't be difficult. > > > > I wonder if any of the more skilled programmers would help > me champion this feature. Thanks. > > There's the rub. We have a bunch of developers listed, but > at any given time there are between zero and two or three > active. Right now we're at a very low activity level. We > either need to get more people interested in coding, or some > of the existing developers need to free up time for the project. > > Combined with that: There's a move afoot to recode Xastir > using a different widget set, and initial steps have been > made along that front. If that project ramps up from it's > current glacial activity level, it will take up all of the > free time of whatever team (team of 1?) is working on it. > > I've always wanted such a multi-tracking feature though, > mostly for public service events. I'd prefer to see multiple > map windows on the screen at the same time though, > independently zoomable/resizeable, each one tracking one or > more mobiles independently of the other windows. > > So I'll give you a +1, but not sure I can help code it > anytime soon. If people jumped in an helped convert code > from the old framework to the new, we could get Xastir > recoded in some number of months, then we'd be in an > excellent position to add new features such as you describe. > > -- > Curt, WE7U. http://wetnet.net/~we7u > Closed-minded about open (-source)... > _______________________________________________ > Xastir mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir > _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
