3.9 beta

[Tomaz Canabrava]

On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 6:58 PM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 2013-11-14 at 20:13 +0200, Willem Ferguson wrote:
> > A few questions about the UI and about subsurface-Win
> >
> > 1) When hand-entering a dive profile, one can add a waypoint by
> > double-clicking a line segment. How can one delete a waypoint?
>
> That's something I've discussed with Tomaz - apparently you can select a
> point and then hit the Delete key, but that doesn't seem to work for me.
> I'd like a simple right click context menu.
>
> Please file a bug for that :-)
>

Ctrl + Click, Delete.
I'll work on a context menu. =p


>
> > 2) Changing a gas on a hand-entered dive, is the following the most
> > appropriate procedure? : Click on profile gas label, select gas from
> > dropdown list, hit keyboard-enter.
>
> Well, that's the easiest way to change an individual segment. And the
> little menu is quite unfriendly as you open it with the mouse by
> clicking on the gas, but you can only close it with Esc or Enter from
> the keyboard. I filed a bug about that already.
> But actually if you want to change the gas for the whole dive, the
> easiest is to change the gas used in the tank.
> So when you start you get the default profile on gas. Change the tank in
> the Equipment tab on the left to be EAN33 and magically the profile
> changes as well. That's what I've worked on the last couple of days.
> This definitely needs to be in the manual.
>
> You offered in an earlier email to help work on the manual. The add dive
> section is one that clearly needs a complete rewrite as we didn't have
> the graphical editor before. Maybe that's a great place where you could
> start?
>
> > 3) When an entire dive list has been grouped, how does one obtain an
> > ungrouped list? Switching off autogroup on the main menu does not appear
> > to do this.
>
> No - that only removes automatically grouped dives since the last
> download of data. You can click on column headers to sort by date (or
> depth, or suit used, or...)
>
> > 4) I am clueless with Windows, not having used it for nearly 20 years.
>
> Welcome to the team. Lubomir is our Windows expert. Most of the active
> developers are Linux people (and a few like Henrik who are experts on
> the Mac).
>
> > Is anyone prepared to give me a pointer or two how to build
> > subsurface-Win 3.9? I would like to give it to my son who also dives but
> > who uses Win, so that he can play a bit with subsurface.
>
> Yes, building for Windows is really easy. On Linux (SUSE, Fedora),
> install the mingw32 cross build tools and run
>
> sh packaging/windows/mingw-make.sh
> make installer
>
> That's how all the official Windows builds are created. Building
> natively under Windows is a massive PITA. Lubomir was doing it for a
> while, not sure he still does.
>
> I'm not sure if this works on Ubuntu
>
> /D
>
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