GUI stuff and Windows debugging

[Miika Turkia]

On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 7:25 PM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:

>
> On Wed, 2014-01-29 at 18:19 +0200, Miika Turkia wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> >
> > I have to tasks that I could use some help with.
> >
> >
> > 1) According to our Grand Master, the CSV import dialogs are not nice
> > enough, especially with high resolution - big font combination. This
> > would need some tune-up by someone who understands GUI more than I do.
>
> :-)
> Qt is easy to learn. Ask Tomaz questions on IRC and he is usually
> thrilled to help
>

OK, I'll ping him when I have some time to tweak the UI.


> > 2) Import from Suunto is not working properly on Windows. Bug #415 is
> > mostly fixed (to my knowledge), but the water temperature is displayed
> > as 0 on the dive notes. It works fine on my Linux, but seems to be
> > incorrect on Windows.
>
> That is very surprising. We use the same library to read / parse the
> data. If there was a communication issue on Windows, that would be more
> understandable, but then the whole import would fail. Having you one
> data point not be parsed correctly??? That's very odd.
>


Yep, that is very surprising, and I have no idea where to look at to solve
the issue. The XSLT parses the data properly on Linux. Do we have developer
documentation how to look into stderr output on Windows? One could also
verify if the output of the XSL transform is correct or not. I just have no
devel tools for Windows...

>
> > When Importing the DM4.db.bak file to Subsurface, you might have to
> > either rename the file or just type it in on the file name, as the
> > extension bak is not recognized as dive log on the import...
>
> I think we mention that in the manual. If not, could you add it?
>

I'll check.

miika
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