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A concise ChartPlotter/Navigator. A cross-platform ship-borne GUI application supporting * GPS/GPDS Postition Input * BSB Raster Chart Display * S57 Vector ENChart Display * AIS Input Decoding * Waypoint Autopilot Navigation
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Dashboard PI Speedometer shows STW label, but has SOG values #3969

Closed torrmundi closed 2 weeks ago

torrmundi commented 3 weeks ago

Describe the bug The Speedometer shows a label "STW". The values shown by the speedometer correspond to the SOG values. STW vs SOG

To Reproduce Create a dashboard with Speedometer and SOG and STW. Note which (SOG or STW) corresponds to the speedometer value.

Expected behavior Either the label should be SOG, or the value should be STW.

Screenshots See attached screenshot.

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Hakansv commented 3 weeks ago

As of your shot the speedometer shows SOG in the graph and as extra info STW by its value. The "STW" designation for the value would be clear in that instrument?

If you want also a "Speed though water meter" graphical instrument or another design of the present Speedometer I'd call it a future request and not a bug.

torrmundi commented 3 weeks ago

Hakan, of course you are correct. I spent a day sailing with the speedometer open and never noticed that STW is an additional value. I thought it was a label. So, the nature of my issue is different: Speedometer is ambiguous. SOG and STW are both "speedometers". Perhaps a better label would be STW?

Hakansv commented 3 weeks ago

The Speedometer is a graphical dial showing SOG. The extra STW value is a text only instrument. I can agree the position and size of the STW value are not nice and even disturbing? Could we discuss improvements instead?

torrmundi commented 3 weeks ago

Sorry, tired after arriving in USA from Bahamas. Perhaps it would be better to relabel the widget not as a speedometer, which is quite obvious, but to relabel it as "Speed - SOG" or simply "SOG"? Here's a possible improvment, but I'm not sure if it will scale well or not: image

Hakansv commented 3 weeks ago

I personally think your sketch is nice and clear. How to develop it in Dashboard I'm not sure about. Someone? If such a change is feasible for next O update is also not clear just now.

Hakansv commented 3 weeks ago

I tried a little bit Like this?

When STW data is available: bild

When STW data is not available: (Edited) bild

torrmundi commented 2 weeks ago

It looks great! That addresses everything I brought up.

Hakansv commented 2 weeks ago

@bdbcat Thoughts? Would you accept a late PR for 5.10?

bdbcat commented 2 weeks ago

I'll take it. Looks very nice.