[Xastir] Query on symbol ghosting

[Stanley Stanukinos]

Curt, I can not thank you and the development team for all you do. 

Stan

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> On Mar 11, 2016, at 10:54 AM, Curt Mills <curt.we7u at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> This week I fixed a bug having to do with proximity circles/hurricane
> circles/tracked-station circles not ghosting when the symbol ghosts. I
> haven't checked in those changes yet but they are forthcoming.
> 
> There are most likely additional "things" attached to symbols which do not
> ghost, so I'll be looking at most of the rest of the things that attach to
> symbols with this in mind (in draw_symbols.c mostly).
> 
> Question: Should the callsign/tactical-callsign ghost as well?  If so,
> should it go to reduced brightness like the symbol, or should it disappear
> altogether?
> 
> Right now I'm leaning towards the latter. When I'm tracking airplanes and
> the symbols ghost, the callsigns stick around at full brightness cluttering
> up the screen until the station gets deleted entirely from the database.
> 
> BTW: I have quite a few more improvements for the airplane tracking,
> including decoding a LOT more airplane packets via a different fork of
> dump1090 + new command-line parameters to go with it. I'll check those in
> soon too.
> 
> -- 
> Curt, WE7U
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