Restore autofilling coordinates for added dives

Dirk Hohndel dirk at hohndel.org
Tue Jul 8 11:15:25 PDT 2014


On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 07:37:28AM -1000, Gaetan Bisson wrote:
> [2014-07-08 19:12:56 +0300] Miika Turkia:
> > There is no visual indication that the GPS position
> > is added before saving. (Once upon a time the GPS edit field was populated
> > after selecting the location, if there was matching GPS coordinates
> > available.)
> 
> So the search loop ran for matching dive locations every time the
> location name changes? Or perhaps just when the location field was
> modified and then unselected? Or some other heuristic. None of these
> seem as clean and simple as the current behavior.

It might make sense to have it run when focus leaves the location field?

> > The GPS retrieval is not executed if I only re-type the dive location (e.g.
> > clear the location and type it again, and save only after the whole edit).
> 
> Yes it is, but you need to clear the GPS coordinates for that to work.
> If there already are GPS coordinates, they are left as is.
> 
> Dirk wanted to release 4.2 soon, I recall, and therefore I suggest it
> incorporates the simple patch attached to restore the GPS completion
> feature we had before. As you point out, further improvements could be
> made but they are drastic and it seems wise not to delay 4.2 for them...

4.2 is a few weeks away. I still want to see a LOT more testing of the
rather invasive changes I did last week. Maybe a first beta a week from
now?

/D


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