[FOSS-GPS] FoxtrotGPS: add track-logging toggle to the toolbar? (was: FoxtrotGPS - are suggestions welcome ?)

[David Bannon]

Joshua, that works beautifully !

Makes it heaps easier to record logs. Thanks a lot.

I'd suggest two minor improvements. Firstly, can you add a help text
for the flag that pops up when a user hovers a mouse over the icon ?
I'd suggest "start/stop track logging". Secondly, and perhaps a bit
harder and maybe not so important, the toggled icon does not look
massively different to the untoggled. I guess its dependent on the
widget set you are using but if its easy, making it look more
distinctive would be good.

But, either way, thanks heaps, great response.

David

 

 ----- Original Message -----
From: "Joshua Judson Rosen" 
To: "David Bannon" 
Cc: "Open Source GPS-related discussion and support" 
Sent: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 00:54:18 -0400
Subject: [FOSS-GPS] FoxtrotGPS: add track-logging toggle to the
toolbar? (was: FoxtrotGPS - are suggestions welcome ?)
 "David Bannon" writes:
 >
 > > Do you mean the popup/context menu, or the toolbar?
 >
 > If you mean where I would like a "logging on / off" icon and if by
the
 > 'toolbar' you mean the structure on the left hand side of the
window,
 > then its the toolbar.

 OK. If my screen is any indication, it looks like there's enough room
 on that side toolbar for a couple of extra buttons even when the
window
 is ~500 pixels high, and they gracefully `fall off the bottom' when
 the window gets smaller down to about 400 pixels (below which there's
 not even room to show the existing buttons). Let's try it.

 I have a change that I think does what you're asking for:

 https://code.launchpad.net/~rozzin/foxtrotgps/tracklog-toggle-toolbutton

 It adds a toggle-button to the toolbar, synchronised with the
checkbox
 in the info/control panel.

 Would you be able to try that out?

 > > Also, what about the `split track', and `load track' functions?
 >
 > The split track function is useful but not useful enough to justify
having the
 > right hand side "Control Panel" (if thats what you call it)
displayed all the
 > time. So, I'd be happy to click the toolbar icon twice to achieve
the same
 > effect.
 > The "load track" and "clear" buttons are really used once you are
reviewing
 > collected data and are fine remaining in the control panel tab. I'd
suggest
 > that tab remain where it is pretty much unchanged and regard the
toolbar icon
 > I am requesting as an alternative way to work.

 OK.

 > Keyboard shortcuts might also be another useful alternative, ctrl-l
to
 > toggle logging, maybe something to zoom in or out....

 Yes.

 There are actually already few keyboard shortcuts in place:

 * "i" or page-up zooms in (as does scroll-up via they pointer)
 * "o" or page-down zooms out (as does scroll-down via the pointer)
 * Ctrl+t brings up the `Load track' dialog
 * Left, Right, Up, and Down pan the map West, East, North, or South
 respectively.
 * "a" toggles autocenter
 * "F11" toggles fullscreen mode
 * "m" shows/hides the info/control panel
 * 1-8 select different maps

 None of those have been properly documented, though..., and it looks
like
 there's a bug where the wrong widget has focus by default, so you
have
 to hit Tab to move focus from the toolbar to the map-widget before
any
 of those keys will work.... I just pushed a couple of changes
 to the bzr repository that address both of those issues.

 Adding an "l for logging" key seems like it would make sense.
 Though, now that I think of it..., I'm sort-of inclined to make it
 "t for track-logging" just to keep the H/J/K/L keys free in case
 someone asks for vi-style navigation keys....

 -- 
 "Don't be afraid to ask (λf.((λx.xx) (λr.f(rr))))."

 > ----- Original Message -----
 > From:
 > "Open Source GPS-related discussion and support"
 > 
 > 
 > To:
 > "David Bannon" 
 > Cc:
 > "Open Source GPS-related discussion and support"
 > 
 > Sent:
 > Sat, 27 Oct 2012 14:47:36 -0400
 > Subject:
 > Re: [FOSS-GPS] FoxtrotGPS - are suggestions welcome ?
 >
 > "David Bannon" writes:
 > >
 > > I contribute data to OSM and use FoxtrotGPS mainly for that
 > > purpose. At present, to control the stopping and starting of
logging,
 > > I need to show the large "control panel" (? for lack of a better
name)
 > > onf the right hand side. browse through several pages and then
click a
 > > quite small text based tick box. This control panel takes up a
whole
 > > lot of screen space and the tick box is quite awkward to find,
 > > especially if you are on the move. I would greatly prefer if this
 > > functionality was on the left hand menu, fronted with a
reasonable
 > > sized icon that could (eg) change colour when active.
 > 
 > Do you mean the popup/context menu, or the toolbar?
 > 
 > Also, what about the `split track', and `load track' functions?
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