New to libdivecomputer. Where do I begin?

Salvador Cuñat salvador.cunat at gmail.com
Wed Jun 21 12:21:06 PDT 2017


Good night.

On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 11:17:21AM -0700, Dirk Hohndel wrote:
> How about we somehow shoe-horn the import of known data formats into our
> download interface in a similar way? So that Ctrl-D gets you to a screen
> that allows you to pick whatever dive computer you have, and then it
> magically does the right thing? I.e., if you pick a dive computer where we
> open files, we simply change the meaning of the device name text field
> (just as we do for the Uemis).
>
> This could of course be massively improved (it's a pretty old hack that I
> did), but I think it's the right idea.
>
Just to clarify the idea. Where you talk about known data formats, you
mean data from a single DC (e.g. CVS data), isn't it?

Applying this to other divelogs import seems pretty difficult as these
can have raw binary data from different models, even different model families.

Regards.

Salva.


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