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Old 26-05-2011, 07:41   #841
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I would like and I think a lot of other people would like to have option to change decimals to position in Degrees, Minutes, Seconds

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40° 26′ 21″ N, 79° 58′ 36″ W


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Old 26-05-2011, 07:43   #842
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I would like and I think a lot of other people would like to have option to change decimals to position in Degrees, Minutes, Seconds
Have you seen FS#468 : [PATCH] Improved latitude/longitude display ?
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Old 26-05-2011, 07:59   #843
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no, i havn't

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Old 26-05-2011, 08:32   #844
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I'm to dump to use it, please give me and the other dummies an instruction,
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Old 26-05-2011, 08:35   #845
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I'm to dump to use it, please give me and the other dummies an instruction,
Go to the ToolBox -> Etc. -> Show Lat/Long as. On the right there is a drop-down list with the 3 available options.

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Old 26-05-2011, 10:20   #846
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Go to the ToolBox -> Etc. -> Show Lat/Long as. On the right there is a drop-down list with the 3 available options.

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is it that option only in beta release 2.4.523

i am using 2.3.1 and i could not find that option

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Old 26-05-2011, 13:23   #847
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is it that option only in beta release 2.4.523
Yes, it is only in the latest betas (from 2.4.506 and later).

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Old 27-05-2011, 21:33   #848
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Tides /currents on right click

A nice feature would be a list of the nearest tide and current stations on a right click.
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Old 30-05-2011, 00:24   #849
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Thanks to the OpenCPN team, have just completed 2 deliveries with OpenCPN.. CapeTown to Tahiti, and Cape Town to Greece, prog worked flawlessly..one request, is i possible to add a pre-determined tack angle onto the boat icon? very useful on long trips when trying to plan with grib..THANKS AGAIN (about to test latest Beta CT-anapolis) Mike
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Old 30-05-2011, 07:02   #850
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Go to the ToolBox -> Etc. -> Show Lat/Long as. On the right there is a drop-down list with the 3 available options.

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I think it would be beneficial to have the Lat & Long on Mark/Waypoint properties on one line. That way you could highlight and copy in one shot.

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Old 30-05-2011, 10:13   #851
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When using OpenCPN and the route to give the autopilot information how to steer to next waypoint, it can happen you have to change course for a reason and when going back to the autopilot mode the boat has moved away from the original course to steer and the XTE has a value. In some situations it is ok to start again from the new position and go to the original waypoint. To do that you have to zero out the XTE value.
What I am talking about is a feature to zero out the XTE. I can not find that OpenCPN has this ability today.
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Old 01-06-2011, 04:36   #852
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I am currently thinking about how to choose/design/instrall a remote display in the cockpit. The only thing I want displayed in the cockpit however are three elements, namely; crosstrack error (bearing, current heading, XTE, distance to go), AIS targets (and only those that would generate alarms) and DSC messages (in particluar distress messages).

One option would be a LCD display (the 2 line dot matrix type displays) , another just a digital photo frame.

With the digital photo frame option, it would just require a USB connection to the PC, and from a programming perspective, possibly much simpler.

In a purely Windows .NET environment, I can render the graphics in the paint event, and thenn save the image as a bitmap (or jpeg, png)

For example:
//Add to the paint event handler
RemoteDisplay = new Bitmap(200,200,PixelFormat.Format32bppArgb);
g = Graphics.FromImage(RemoteDisplay);
// Do my drawing stuff
g.DrawString("XTE:", myDisplayFont, new SolidBrush(Color.Black), 0, 0);
//Save the output to a directory accessed by the digital photo frame RemoteDisplay.Save("d:\\xte.png", ImageFormat.Png);
g.Dispose();
RemoteDisplay.Dispose();

Any possibility of adding some kind of functionality to support a remote display ?
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I doubt that any digital photo frame would be bright enough to view in daylight. You might want to test its brightness before investing any development effort.
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Any possibility of adding some kind of functionality to support a remote display ?
Steve,
I'm definitely not going to implement this, as I feel there are more urgent tasks, but feel free to borrow the GE plugin code from https://github.com/nohal/OpenCPN/tre...ecomapi_pi/src to save the screen to file on core events... Really not much C needed for what you want, the whole thing will be couple of dozens lines of code...

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Old 01-06-2011, 07:13   #855
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regarding speedometer, there is only 12 kts, i can not find settings to change it, is it possible to change speedometer scale to 40, 45 kts

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