On 13 November 2011 13:22, Olaf Hartmann <olaf.hartm...@s1998.tu-chemnitz.de
> wrote:
> Quoting Jacques Graells <jacques....@gmail.com>:
> > In older versions of XCSoar there was a feature that allowed to display
> an
> > image for a landing site.
> > Is there plans to re-introduce that feature ?
>
> Some time ago i implemented such a feature. The source code is
> available at: http://git.xcsoar.org/cgit/hao/xcsoar.git/ On android it
> is even possible to open arbitrary files with an external application,
> e.g. PDF files with reporting points or other approach information.
>
> So far i got no feedback whatsoever. The only reason that i can think
> of, somebody would not merge it, is that it slightly increases memory
> usage for each waypoint even without any image. But this can be easily
> optimized later.
>
>
> Olaf
>
>
There was a brief discussion on IRC, but maybe you missed it :) It's a very
cool feature but I have some reservations, especially about switching to an
external application and back as I understand once we hand over to another
application there's no way to prevent Android closing XCSoar to gain extra
memory, which could for example be triggered by viewing a large PDF. Maybe
I'm wrong though. :)
Can you create a trac ticket / post on xcsoar-devel / join the IRC channel
again to discuss?
Thanks
Simon
IRC log below
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11:30 < wbu> hi
11:31 < wbu> i just uploaded the support for images, pdf files etc. for
waypoints i was talking about some time ago into my git.
11:31 < wbu> any feedback is appreciated
11:32 < wbu> there is even a little bit of documentation included ;)
11:33 < wbu> and this removes the google-XXX.jpg and modis-XXX.jpg feature.
is anyone using that?
11:35 < xtophe> where is your git?
11:35 <@cirrus> I'm not sure, that feature is ugly
11:36 <@cirrus> but some people even like ugly features ..
11:36 < wbu> http://git.xcsoar.org/cgit/hao/xcsoar.git/
11:37 < wbu> what is ugly about it? =)
11:50 < wbu> btw: something is not right with the current master. it
crashes on android:
11:50 < wbu> I/XCSoar (13133): Read registry settings F/XCSoar (13133):
assertion "src.defined()" failed: file "src/Screen/OpenGL/Canvas.cpp", line
598, function "stretch"
11:51 < apf> Same here
12:25 < staylo> wbu: Looks interesting! I know the powered folk would love
this :) How's the stability when switching to an external PDF viewer and
back?
13:03 < xtophe> wbu: can you have several image/file per tp
13:03 < xtophe> wbu: can you give a title to the image/files?
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