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Weather Routing plugin for OpenCPN
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RFE : Modify the search batch generator window to be able to choose time gaps between boat departure time accepting day, hour and MINUTE. #132

Open Gilletarom opened 10 months ago

Gilletarom commented 10 months ago

Hello,

When you have created a search, it is interesting to create one or more others where the only difference is the departure time of the boat from its port or its mooring. It is easy to change the start time if you completely recreate the search. but, that supposes to recreate all the settings. To save time, it is preferable to use batch generation since the only criterion that must be changed for each search is the starting time. It's easy to do, it's done in the batch generator.

BUT, when creating a search, it is possible to get an extremely precise time even to one minute. It is certainly a useless precision especially for a long crossing like that of the Atlantic for example. This is done in this window: 2023-08-25 14_42_55-Weather Routing Configuration 2023-08-25 14_43_16-Weather Routing Configuration

BUT, if we are content to use WR to determine the best departure time to go from one port to another, located close enough to each other, for example 20 to 30 miles apart, then launch searches with a high enough precision of timetables are extremely useful. BUT, in the search batch generation window, you cannot enter schedules from minutes to minutes. Only hourly. From personal experience, it is necessary to have better precision. 2023-08-25 14_43_43-OpenCPN 5 8 4-0 2023-08-25 14_44_15-OpenCPN 5 8 4-0

Would it be possible to modify the box where the duration is currently entered as 1 hour so as to be able, as in the window above, to be able to enter durations in hours and minutes? It would even be interesting to merge the day box with the hour box and make a single day, hour and minute box.

Thank by advance.

Gilletarom.