planner tank handling

[Robert C. Helling]

On 29 May 2014, at 17:26, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:

> I've been thinking about this... the planner could do a much better job
> tracking tanks and gases. Right now this is a mess, left over from the old
> planner code written for Subsurface 3.
> 
> Instead of having create_dive_from_plan re-create the cylinders as it
> parses the plan, it should use the cylinders that were added in the UI.
> And then as it walks the plan, it should update the samples to include
> cylinderpressure values for each segment, based on the SAC rate that was
> set (and yes, this includes adding samples at time - 1 before every gas
> switch.
> 
> This requires a bit more tracking of data but at the same time should get
> rid of quite a bit of awkward code that's there today and will give very
> pleasing visualization of gas use during planning. If done right it will
> even respond to changes to the cylinder type in the plan, etc.
> 
> Robert, does that sound reasonable?
> Is this something you'd like to tackle? Or should I add this to my TODO
> list?

indeed the problem is that the information is kept (at least in part) in several data structures (model (i.e. UI), struct dive, dive plan and in the deco part as well in a list of depth at which something happens). We should come up at least with a good decision which is the primary place that gets copied to the others. I have to admit I haven’t understood this model thing well enough to have an informed opinion if that is a good primary place as you seem to suggest.

I am happy to look into that but it might take some time. So, if somebody else wants to look into that, great. If not, it’s one of the things on my todo list for the planner.

Best
RObert

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