OpenCPN Beta Version 3.1.1105 Released

[SethDart]

Originally Posted by Gilletarom

I can not find good readability. Is it necessary to update the names of the instruments in each update of the instrument?

Well, that's how refreshing display works ;-) If you only refresh part of it, you may reach to overlapping garbage.

The display is only refreshed once every second. Before, it's refreshed on every sentence received. It should be way lighter than before (and we're using GL for smooth graphics)

It may be a problem with your graphic driver. Nothing like that occurred during our extensive tests. Can you try to change font, font size or font weight and report? Do this also occurs on other machines? What's your OS, is OpenGL working fine on this particular PC?

[Gilletarom]

Hello Sethdart,

Originally Posted by SethDart

.....

The display is only refreshed once every second. Before, it's refreshed on every sentence received....

It may be a problem with your graphic driver. Nothing like that occurred during our extensive tests. Can you try to change font, font size or font weight and report? Do this also occurs on other machines? What's your OS, is OpenGL working fine on this particular PC?

Should not upset you my preliminary observations. I did report the problem that I have with version 3.1.1105 without changing fonts, appearance and character size.

I use a ASUS 1001 HA EeePc, W, SP3, 10-inch screen.

On this machine, using OpenGL brings nothing interesting. The flicker effect titles does not disappear when using OpenGL.

I changed the appearance and character size. With the settings I have chosen, the result of the display is readable. In addition, the flicker is gone.

See screenshot. The first, with openGL, the other without OpenGL.

Cordialement

Gilletarom.

[bdbcat]

Zorg....

To your comments:

"Maybe i misunderstood or i found something wrong in the connection : if only one sentence is ticked in the "accept only sentences" field, it is OK but if 2 or more sentences are ticked, no sentence is accepted."

You have discovered a bug. The new setting of two or more Accept filter sentences will only be applied if the OpenCPN application is closed, and re-opened. This will be corrected in the next Beta.


"If i want to output from the same port as input do i have to create 2 data connection lines or only one ?"

For combined input and output from one port, only one Connection is required, with filters set as desired.

"Is it possible to create a line as input port @38400 and another line as output with same port @4800 ?"

Input and output from a common port must both be at the same baud rate. This is a limitation of the serial port hardware used in most (all?) PCs.

Thanks for the report.
Dave

[cagney]

OpenCPN can now tap right into the live AIS feed from San Fransisco!
Very nice!
Earlier it was only possible to download, and replay with VDR.


Are there more live feeds available......?

Thomas

[bcn]

Thomas,

you might have a look here:

Free AIS vessel tracking | AIS data exchange | XML vessel positions


Cheers

Hubert

[Ptizef]

Hi Dave

I have crashes when switching from one Chart group to another
Conditions :
Create a group with BSB only
Create a second group with CM93 + BSB
now crash when switching from the first to the second group
Tested with a locally compiled today master version
This configuration worked with the previous versions . I used it all this summer
regards
Jean Pierre

[cagney]

Dave
The AIS button in the ToolBar is on all the time now. I suppose that is right, as we no more specify a dedicated ais port. Compare to the old AIS tab. Users without ais can always hide the button.

The button is a toggle on/off, but the text always says "Show AIS Targets", even when the targets are displayed.

Thomas

[Gilletarom]

Hello,

Originally Posted by Ptizef

Hi Dave

I have crashes when switching from one Chart group to another
Conditions :
Create a group with BSB only
Create a second group with CM93 + BSB
now crash when switching from the first to the second group
....
regards
Jean Pierre

I cannot reprocuce this problem. All is Ok when I change :
- from BSB to CM93 + BSB
- from CM93 + BSB to cm93
- from bsb to All charts
- from All charts to bsb
- from All charts to cm93
- from cm93 to all charts
- Etc ...

B.R.

Gilletarom

[GillesPenot]

I have two AIS talker, one is comming from an dedicated device, other is comming from VHF mixed with the GPS Nmea Flow sentence. Is it possible in 3.1.1105 to ignore AIS sentence?
Thank
Gilles

[P_Dub]

Hello Dave,
There seems to have a bug concerning moving an existing waypoint to a different location in the last version 3.1.1105. I am usig Widows 7 and it is the only programm that does that on my computer. I am usig S57 Charts and CM93 as well.
Unfortunately I can not provide you with the log and/ini files, I had to redo a full installations. The screen had turn light blue.
Regards.
P_Dub

[CarCode]

Originally Posted by P_Dub

The screen had turn light blue.
Regards.
P_Dub

The chief developer of Windows, Steven Sinofsky, has gone from MS. Hopefully he has taken the Blue Screens with him...

[cagney]

Originally Posted by GillesPenot

I have two AIS talker, one is comming from an dedicated device, other is comming from VHF mixed with the GPS Nmea Flow sentence. Is it possible in 3.1.1105 to ignore AIS sentence?
Thank
Gilles

Yes no problem. It's easy to ignore all AIS messages for a specific data connection, using input filtering.

Thomas

[HappySeagull]

Thomas,
thislinkhttp://vtslite.siitech.com/VTSLite/AView.aspx?lat=49.5035661&lng=-124.778252&zoom=09&mmsi=123456243

just edit the position

(I added the "thislink" to stop this place from not showing the address. Is there a better way?)

[cagney]

BCN & Happy

On 207.7.148.216:9009 there is a free public AIS stream covering the approaches to SF. I was asking if anyone knew of similar ip addresses sending AIS streams without any restrictions. In this case I'm only interested in testing O.

Thomas

[JesperWe]

Originally Posted by HappySeagull

(I added the "thislink" to stop this place from not showing the address. Is there a better way?)

Yes. You can:

- Reply in advanced mode and uncheck "Automatically retrieve titles"

or

- Paste the URL as text, select it, click "Insert link" button, and paste the URL as the link as well.