Graphical Planner - almost ready for use.

Dirk Hohndel dirk at hohndel.org
Fri Jun 28 05:21:56 PDT 2013


On Fri, 2013-06-28 at 14:16 +0200, Robert Helling wrote:
> On 28.06.2013, at 12:06, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
> 
> >> * We could have more features of the dive profile graph: Line colors for ascent/descent speed, deco ceiling etc
> > 
> > I think that would be distracting and not really all that useful
> 
> I think we should at least give some visual feedback if a plan violates
> the correct(TM) ascent speed limits (as I said configurable). When
> placing a waypoint we might also display (as text either as a mouse
> over or somewhere else) the resulting ascent/descent speed (as we
> already display depth and absolute time).

True. We could play with that. The code exists, it just needs to be
hooked up correctly.

> Deco ceiling I mentioned since that might be useful for planning deco
> (for which the planner is used after all, isn't it?). 

Ditto

> I understand that configuring variable ascent speeds sounds like a
> nightmare. But my impression is that after all, there are not took many
> different schemes that people use. I have just asked in some diving
> forums what people do use. So the number of options to make most people
> happy might be quite small and not so difficult to configure (and of
> course we would provide decent default values).

The better you describe what you envision, the better the chances that
Tomaz actually implements what you are looking for :-)

/D




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