Multiple buddies per dive

Dirk Hohndel dirk at hohndel.org
Fri Sep 7 16:15:27 PDT 2012


Henrik Brautaset Aronsen <subsurface at henrik.synth.no> writes:

> Den 08.09.12 00:24, skrev Dirk Hohndel:
>> On Sep 7, 2012, at 3:14 PM, Mikko Rasa wrote:
>>
>>> In my diving club, it's fairly common to dive as a triplet rather than a pair if there's an odd number of people participating on the trip.  At the moment subsurface only supports one buddy per dive.  Surely I can't be the only one who would benefit from support of multiple buddies?  I'm not sure when I can find the time to implement this myself, so feel free to consider it as a feature request.
>> I dive with multiple buddies all the time (the usual dive posse is a group of five after all). I simply list them all.
>> Yes, that makes the drop-down auto-fill box a bit of a mess, but it seems to work rather well for me. Having multiple Buddy boxes… that seems a bit odd, doesn't it?
>
> We can do it like MacDive does it. All buddies on one line, comma 
> separated. Except MacDive does auto-completion of each buddy, and stores 
> new ones. (See attached image).

I wish I knew how to do that in Gtk, though :-(

/D


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