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Weather Routing plugin for OpenCPN
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Bug 10 Cursor position on route is often hard to detect #112

Open rgleason opened 1 year ago

rgleason commented 1 year ago

1) The cursor on the route is often very hard to detect.

2) I would like to see the cursor (the circle) that travels the route when you step the time in the grib window much easier.

3) Perhaps it can be given a much more intense color and/or make it flashing or heavier lines. Or perhaps make it user adjustible or DPI responsive?

rgleason commented 11 months ago

https://github.com/rgleason/weather_routing_pi/issues/119

bdbcat commented 10 months ago

Rick... I am not an expert on weather_routing_pi. Can you tell me more about this bug, and the use case? Maybe some screen shots?

rgleason commented 10 months ago

Dave, (now in MI)

Well, after thinking about this problem a little, perhaps I am noticing it more than others because of the High Res Screen. Maybe it is a DPI problem for the now very very small indicator for Grib Date/Time and Position on the optimal route. We should be able to step through the grib file time scale and see the change in location on the optimal route. I believe that Sean has programmed this intention properly, but I am having trouble seeing it because of the High Resolution and thus we need the indicator to be DPI responsive, or we need to be able to set a scaling parameter for the route position indicator and a thickness parameter, etc.

WR-Grib-Relationships

Note that the choice of Weather Table (via cursor hovering over the optimal route) and then right click and pick Weather Table) does not immediately show the data needed for that position and time!!! The user has to figure it out using the Date and Time. This makes the weather table somewhat less useful for seeing what the weather is on the route!!!

What we really need is a Weather table that shows the weather at each Data/time/position along the route, and then that weather table should also highlight automatically the "now" position. I am not sure the weather table does this right now.

rgleason commented 10 months ago

Dave, please see Bug10A which has come to light after further review. https://github.com/rgleason/weather_routing_pi/issues/133

Bug 10A Weather-Data-Table vs. Grib-Data-Table #133