Gases in divelist

Robert C. Helling helling at lmu.de
Mon Mar 18 07:40:13 PDT 2013



please ignore my last mail. I thought that was a reply to my patch (but it 
was still in my inbox).

On Mon, 18 Mar 2013, Robert C. Helling wrote:

> On Sun, 17 Mar 2013, Dirk Hohndel wrote:
>
>> "Robert C. Helling" <helling at atdotde.de> writes:
>
>> And of course there are the computers like the OSTC that always give you
>> all defined gases and aren't air integrated. What do do for that? Show
>> all? Show only those that have a gas change event?
>> 
>> As I said - complicated.
>
> Agreed. But as there is now the possibility to add the gaschanges manually, I 
> thought that would be the time to use these events to decide this question. 
> Of course, we could make this configurable ("Show all gases/Show gases 
> used").
>
> As I said earlier, the problem arose in particular from a OSTC user: Since he 
> had set a trimix gas is his computer, suddenly all his dives appeared as 
> trimix in the dive list. I have a hard time considering this the correct 
> behaviour.
>
> IIRC the OSTC differentiates between gases listed and gases used. We could as 
> well define a gas as used if at least one of the following holds:
>
> 1) Index is 0.
> 2) There is a gaschange to this gas.
> 3) The dive computer marks this gas as used (I don't know if libdivecomputer 
> reports this).
>
> What do you think.


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