[QGIS-trac] [Quantum GIS] #3241: Live GPS - Error Dialogs disrupt usage

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#3241: Live GPS - Error Dialogs disrupt usage
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   Reporter:  jfloyd                                     |              Owner:  nobody       
       Type:  bug                                        |             Status:  new          
   Priority:  critical: causes crash or data corruption  |          Milestone:  Version 1.7.0
  Component:  GUI                                        |            Version:  1.5.0        
   Keywords:  Live GPS                                   |   Platform_version:  FC12         
   Platform:  Fedora                                     |           Must_fix:  No           
Status_info:  0                                          |  
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 Live GPS works ok.  However if you set a local CRS and a transformation
 error occurs (error is lat or long is out of range), then a Dialog pops up
 to let you know - waiting for a button press.  Then it continues to pop up
 on every gps position (effectively locking the user access to the program)
 until you can kill the GPS input.

 A friendlier notification is needed something like 'only show if last
 message was > x seconds/min ago' or something other then a message box,
 say a message in RED in the Live GPS Gui.

 Also useful would be a capability like in the capture coordinate to put a
 second Coord (CRS) in the Gui as well. Maps are generally not printed in
 lat-long! and despite the digital world, printed maps are still a nice in
 the field QA.

 Another item - can the gps device spec be editable as well as the  pre-
 defined ones?  Eg USB GPS devices under linux can occur as ttyUSBx or in
 some cases as ttyACMx.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/3241>
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