[Xastir] Query on symbol ghosting

[Curt Mills]

Changes checked in. Note the new instructions for dump1090 (which fork of
it to use) as well as new command-line parameters for starting it up.
Switch to that and you'll receive a lot more airplane packets on the RTL
dongles.

On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 9:45 AM, Curt Mills <curt.we7u at gmail.com> wrote:

> Never mind. There's a menu option called: "Include Expired Data" which
> makes expired data pop up again if people want to see it, so I'll just make
> the callsigns and other bits attached to symbols go away when the symbol
> ghosts if that option is not enabled. Keeps the screen uncluttered.
>
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 8:54 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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>>
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> Curt, WE7U
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