Opened 13 years ago
#3241 new bug
Live GPS - Error Dialogs disrupt usage
| Reported by: | jfloyd | Owned by: | nobody |
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| Priority: | critical: causes crash or data corruption | Milestone: | Version 1.7.0 |
| Component: | GUI | Version: | 1.5.0 |
| Keywords: | Live GPS | Cc: | |
| Must Fix for Release: | No | Platform: | Fedora |
| Platform Version: | FC12 | Awaiting user input: | no |
Description
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.
