Hello. With the events that I normally use xastir for approaching, I'm not sure if I can get to this soon, but I will keep it in mind. I have filed issue 176 to keep track of the request.
73 - Jason On Fri, Apr 2, 2021 at 5:58 PM Tom Russo <[email protected]> wrote: > It should be possible to do this, but for Reasons there may not be anyone > with the time to dig through the code and do it. > > This has definitely come up before and I looked at it briefly, but the way > messages are handled is a little wonky. It *should* be possible to > intercept > them at some stage and not add the reply/ack stuff or a message number, but > the way it is done (by inserting the message into the incoming datastream > and letting the normal message processing code handle it as if it had been > received) is a little tricky. I never quite spent enough time wrapping my > brain over the path that the data took from the dialog box to actually > being > transmitted, and so I do not have my own finger on the exact part of the > code that would need to be modified to recognize "hey, this is an outgoing > query, don't add a message number to it." It isn't in the code that > directly > handles input from the "Send Message" dialog. It's more like deep in the > bowels > of db.c > > I have been frustrated by this very thing a few times, because there are > some > implementations (notably javAPRSsrv and the old Kenwood D700) that will > not > answer queries that have message numbers in them. > > The queries that are available in the Station Info box don't have message > numbers, so obviously it *can* be done. > > I can't be the one to do this, as I have no spare cycles to work on Xastir. > > Maybe Jason or Curt do, but I think Curt is swamped, too. If anyone else > would > like to try their hand at hacking it in and making a pull request, I'd be > happy to review it. > > On Fri, Apr 02, 2021 at 03:36:09PM +0200, we recorded a bogon-computron > collision of the <[email protected]> flavor, containing: > > Hi Tom & Curt, > > > > Could-it possible to implement the complete set of APRS queries such as > http://privat.bahnhof.se/wb758759//documents/APRS-Queries.pdf ? > > > > Or more simple: to get the possibility to send them manually via the > message box implementing a rule that any message beginning ?? ? ?? (i-e: > ?APRSP) should be sent without the ack characters. > > > > 73 de Cyril - DF1CHB - F1MHV > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Xastir mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir > > -- > Tom Russo KM5VY > Tijeras, NM > > echo "prpv_a'rfg_cnf_har_cvcr" | sed -e 's/_/ /g' | tr [a-m][n-z] > [n-z][a-m] > > _______________________________________________ > Xastir mailing list > [email protected] > http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir > -- "The problem with quotes on the Internet is that it is often difficult to verify their authenticity." - *Abraham Lincoln* _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
