Francisco Guerra wrote:
The left/right arrow keys will vary the transparency of the maps. It
defaults to 50% which is why it appears pale. If you crank it down
(left) to zero, expect to see your stations jump as it switches from a
Mercatur Projection required by the maps to a circular distance and
bearing display centered on the screen center. Make some rather
interesting displays if you're connected to a full feed.
Ok. But howto in Windows Mobile? I have not a wheel nor left/right keys.
Which Windows Mobile platform do you have? There's no soft keyboard that can get you arrow keys? If not, how do you type text? Even if there's a small cursor moving rocker thing, that should generate left/right and up/down.
I think "mouse-hover" is a good approach.
I'll see what I can come up with. My personal issue with hover is that I tend to just throw the mouse out of my active window and it distracts me to know end to see a hover pop-up appear from underneath wherever it happened to land. I understand the desire for window clarification, but I still believe that it's only good for about the first 2 or 3 days of usage.
I'm using a MFJ-1278 in a computer with Xastir and AGWPE+Ui-View in another one with Windows XP and a soundcard.
It will be good if you can use the soundcard and/or the bluetooth in both versions.
I do plan to try to support AGWPE for SoundCard access. Given that programs can access it via TCP/IP, I can probably support it from Windows Mobile as well, but that would assume that you're actually co-resident with the non-Mobile PC running AGW. Or is there a SoundCard interface for Windows Mobile that I haven't heard of?
Ok. I can connect the MFJ via bluetooth with the Windows Mobile device or with the desktop computer.
Correct. That's my primary focus, at least initially. You should be able to use any serial TNC either via a direct serial port or via a Bluetooth to serial adapter.
The "+-" works different from other programms like Google Earth. In Google "+" zooms in and "-" out.
Yes it does. I did a survey earlier on and it ended up tied. Just think of + adding MORE stations to the screen and - displaying FEWER stations. I think of the focus of APRS being the visible stations, not the visible map. This may yet change in some future revision, however.
What does the color of the station mean? Usually they are green, but some are black or red.
The color of a station in the scrolling list indicates how far they are from the screen center. Green stations are probably not even visible or are at the edges of the map. A station in red is very near or actually at the center of the screen. Black stations have not yet transmitted a position packet so APRISCE doesn't know where they are. They typically don't have a symbol either.
I'm considering displaying RF-received stations in BOLD in the scrolling station list, thoughts?
Can you configure the programs to use metric instead of imperial units?
Metric display is on my ToDo list. As I see more non-US callsigns actively using the program, the priority of that task will rise.
Thank you
You're welcome and thank you for the well-thought comments and bringing my attention to them! With enough feedback like this, we can make the program better and better in more ways than I can think of independently.
73,
Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ
