Well I didn't expect my original email to generate so much traffic! I have been reading all the email but as I'm flying in a comp I really didn't have time to contribute until now.
There have been heaps of good ideas. What I'd like to do now is to try to restate my initial thoughts in the light of all that has been contributed. The "problem" - XCSoar does not allow navigation to more than one point to occur simultaneously. Frequently this ability is useful and on occasions (crossing unlandable ground) it is of considerable safety importance. Furthermore, selecting another way point to monitor should not destroy task information. There have been a number of solutions offered, but at this point I think it's important to make sure that any implemented solution does not greatly change the UI (as this will confuse users) nor should the solution impose significant recoding from our hardworking, volunteer developers. With this in mind, the solution that seems simplest is to create boxes for two additional (non task) nav points. The boxes (and their info) could be displayed anywhere, just as the existing boxes and their info are currently. I anticipate that I would then set up two additional pages per point mimicking my 'cruise' and 'circling' pages to allow me to monitor these two additional nav points. This seems to be simpler to use (and I hope code) than imposing "modes". It has occurred to me that having a command that 'drops a point' on to the terrain below AND allocates it to one of the two new nav points would be useful. Using this command, one could tag a landable point and set up monitoring to it very simply as one then proceeds across unlandable terrain. The only other thing that occurs to me is that dropped points should be allocate the surface elevation, not the glider's elevation (as occurred in the old Cambridge GPS nav "thermal marker")! -- *Robert Hart ha...@interweft.com.au <mailto:ha...@interweft.com.au> Darling Downs gliding weather information <http://the-white-knight-speaks.blogspot.com.au/>* +61 438 385 533 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. SALE $99.99 this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122912 _______________________________________________ Xcsoar-user mailing list Xcsoar-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcsoar-user
