Re: [Xcsoar-user] position menu boxes landscape mode

2011-03-24 Thread Max Kellermann
On 2011/03/24 22:49, "g...@solcon.nl" wrote: > If this choice is not available, I  would like to suggest to make > that an option or change the location. We don't have an option for that. The bug tracker (http://www.xcsoar.org/trac/newticket) is the right place to put feature requests.

Re: [Xcsoar-user] Speed Task * info box defs

2011-03-24 Thread Helmut Rohs
Hi Evan, The best documentation certainly is the code ;-). But did you tried the help text, ok yes, not that meaningful. I'll try it: Speed Task Average - Average cross country speed while on current task, compensated for altitude. -> That should give an estimate for the entire planned task based

Re: [Xcsoar-user] Speed Task * info box defs

2011-03-24 Thread Luke O'Donnell
I'm sure someone will be able to provide a more definitive, mathematical explination, but for what it's worth: The altitude compensation takes into account your altitude when calculating your speed. Without altitude compensation, your average speed would significantly slow down every time you stop

[Xcsoar-user] position menu boxes landscape mode

2011-03-24 Thread g...@solcon.nl
I'm using a PDA. In landscape mode (sub)menu-boxes appear along the lower edge of the screen. That's not very handy as often your hand blocks the boxes, e.g. if you are giving an input to 'nav/display/config/info'. I did find a menu option to move the info-boxes to various positions, but not to m

[Xcsoar-user] Speed Task * info box defs

2011-03-24 Thread Evan Ludeman
Can someone please provide or point to definitions of: Speed Task as displayed in their respective info boxes and "compensated for altitude" ? Is there a way to get average speed without "altitude compensation", that is simply distance flown on task divided by elapsed time? Thanks... Evan