On Jan 4, 2008, at 17:45, Gerry Creager wrote:
TO do that, you'd have to cache or database all the data locally... OR... place a web service request to a server somewhere, OR, an SQL request to a server.
Personally I'd prefer the data to be stored locally. The data is already coming in to the computer via one of the interface connections. Also to mine from another source can only lead to heartache and grief down the line when the format changes. I vote for using the available information.
At this point, I don't see that as a mouse-over service as that'd require some fairly hefty coding on the UI in Xastir. I could see it added to a right-click, with less work, however.
I think my initial words were misleading. I was talking about the right-click menu (which in the program is called the "Mouse Pointer Menu" and can be also called up using the last option under the Map menu).
Parsing it from logs is tedious and time-consuming. Believe me. I know.
I think it would likely require a new log, perhaps one in just the format we need. Of course an indexed database would be quicker but would require some additional dependencies (berkeley db is already used for some other options, so perhaps that is the way to go).
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