Curt, WE7U wrote:
On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, Steve Friis wrote:
Anyway I kind of like your way as then I wouldn't have to pull down a
menu and then select a box. Just right-click on the station, if I
understand what you are saying, and make the selection. Way cool.
Almost. You'd right-click. If there were multiple stations near
the mouse you'd get a selection box, else the Station Info window.
If the selection box then select the callsign and then the Station
Info window would pop up. Once there you'd have a button there for
"Track This Station" or some-such.
Did you know about the "-f callsign" (Track callsign) command-line
option? You could do it that way as well:
xastir -f we7u-12 &
No, I didn't, but then that would require a restart, if I am thinking
correctly how that would work.
Define different aliases or scripts for tracking certain people.
I'm still thinking about the "minimum surprise to users" angle:
Should we or should we not make tracking of a particular station
remembered through restarts of Xastir?
Well, to regress back to what I originally thought, if there was a
remembered list that would persist through restarts of the program, then
one would only have to click on the station that was previously entered
in the list. If a new station was going to be added to the list, then
one would add it to a blank field. If you wanted to re-use a call, then
you would just recheck that station.
I see how your way would work too. Here in NM when I zoom in what would
be a search area or a bike-a-thon etc, I don't see that it is going to
be very cluttered, unless you are talking about everyone in the staging
area, and even then... Now if you are talking about covering a whole
county, things can get crowded in the metro's but not unreasonably. So,
you method should be very useful. Probably would work even better than mine.
Sorry, I got long winded.
--
Steve Friis/ WM5Z
These are the humble ramblings of an old phart and in no way should they
influence the actions of any intelligent and sane person.
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