On Jun 2, 2014, at 11:02 AM, William Perry <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Jun 2, 2014, at 10:34 AM, Robert Helling <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On 01.06.2014, at 20:19, Dirk Hohndel <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Sun, Jun 01, 2014 at 08:11:26PM +0200, Robert C. Helling wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On 01 Jun 2014, at 18:47, Martin Gysel <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> what about a template based output? where everyone can easily change the
>>>>> template like
>>>>> "\D \T \G \R" for "Depth Time Gas Runtime"
>>>> 
>>>> I am sure that is too complex for Joe Average User. My plan is to go for 
>>>> checkboxes in the preferences (or the planner options besides others where 
>>>> we currently display the marble.
>>>> 
>>>> [ ] Show runtime
>>>> [ ] Show duration for stops
>>>> [ ] Show transitions
>>> 
>>> Works for me. Just make sure you do this based on the latest master as I
>>> did a few changes to the code that added the plan to the notes (as that
>>> was rather wrong)
>>> 
>>> /D
>> 
>> Here you go. Arrangement of checkboxes is not perfect but subject to change 
>> when we reorganize the planner preferences anyway.
> 
> Are there plans to be able to print the planned dive in a simple format that 
> can just be cut & pasted onto slates?  One of the first things I did once I 
> got beyond the basic deco training was write a parser/formatter for the mess 
> that V-Planner spit out.  Writing out the deco schedule for a 100 meter dive 
> onto a 2”x4” flip-slate was … primitive to say the least.  I know a lot of 
> tech divers (and probably one agency) that would be really excited to see a 
> planner where you could just print out the plan, with automatic contingency 
> plans (too deep, too long, lost deco, etc).  The basic one I wrote for 
> V-Planner/MultiDeco allows you to specify the depth at which you want to blow 
> the bag (leaving the bottom, specific depths, or first stop of at least N 
> minutes), the size of the slates you plan on putting them on, as well as 
> color coding gas change events.
> 
> We recently became an SDI/TDI shop and I now have access to one of those 
> fancy little card printers — would be really handy to print out the really 
> common depths and mixes you dive at / with and just have the contingencies on 
> a keyring in your thigh pocket.
> 
> Even a way to export this as an XML document or easily parsed text file would 
> be a huge win.  And if exporting is the way to go can we please keep ALL the 
> information in any contingencies that are automatically generated?  The 
> automatic contingency output in V-Planner leaves out a ton of information so 
> it is very difficult to keep things like the gas switches on the 
> contingencies.

Sometimes I really hate Mail.app - this got sent from the wrong address as far 
as the subsurface mailing list is concerned.  Resending.  Sorry about that.

-Bill
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