On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 12:19:58PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > HI all, > We had talked a bit about this functionality but I > don't remember anyone saying any specifics about putting > this into the code. How do all the developer folks feel > about this? Is this something that is planned? Rejected? > Cogitating on it? Already hacked in? :-)
Planned. Cogitating. I am cogitating actively, as I have *another* desired feature that needs multiline objects. But don't hold your breath unless you want to hack on it. > On May 16, 2007, at 3:54 PM, Curt, WE7U wrote: > > > On Wed, 16 May 2007, Tom Russo wrote: > > > >> Make two objects at the centroid of the area: one with the attributes in > >> the > >> status text, the other with the multiline data in the status text. > >> Wouldn't > >> require a spec change, and would display on any client that parses > >> multiline > >> objects. > > > > Seems like a reasonable approach. As long as the multiline object > > could hold enough vertice information. That appears doubtful to me. > > > > Perhaps one could create a "trimmed-down" multiline that gave the > > major components of the shape, then additional multiline objects for > > those clients that could piece all of them together into one object. > > > > -- > > Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer > > "Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown > > "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- WE7U > > "The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 AHTB#1 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM "And, isn't sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy, oooh, oooh, oooh, the sky is the limit!" --- The Tick _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
