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skatebiker:
Thanks for the short feedback. I am not experiencing the delay that you mention -- I would say that sometimes it might be as long as 5 seconds, but not 30 seconds (for me), so that is unusual. We need to wait for more people to respond with their experiences...
I can say, though, that it is not possible to make it any faster, without taking away functionality, or without using something other than Python. My hope is that people will not be tempted to do a lot of 'mode changing', but will typically just leave it in one of their 'favorite' modes most of the time
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2009-06-22
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2009-06-22
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Question - when the GPS mode is on, does the position get saved in the .ini file? I was thinking of turning GPS to on, connecting to my bluetooth GPS to set the location and time, then turning GPS off. Would it slow things down to leave GPS set to on?
Also, are civil, nautical and astronomical twilights listed anywhere? I know they're shown on the bar and circle graphs but I don't see the times listed anywhere.
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slick204, I hope that you like the ability to toggle the text mode on and off, since you were the main reason that I tried to do something like that -- even though it may not be exactly what you requested in post #26 of this thread
As for the GPS mode, well, I have not studied that mode for a long time now, but referring back to the README file, it indicates that putting a GPS 'mode' of 'lock' in the 'ini' file will result in the GPS just trying to establish a *single* lock on the GPS, and thereafter ignoring it. This may be what you are asking for (?). No, no settings (including GPS stuff) is saved back to any file.
As for the 'twilight' times, no, I wasn't able to find any room to record those 'textual' values anywhere -- especially on the 'bar' display, which is already so full that I had to squeeze the lines closer together. Are you asking for a 'text-only' mode of some kind that would include that? Maybe some people don't want graphics at all? I can note, however, that I *did* manage to squeeze the sun/moon alt/az onto the screen so that people knew 'textually' what the current locations in the sky were...
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2009-06-23
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I'm wondering if when the GPS signal is gone (disconnected) does it revert to the position in the mchronos.ini file?
Nice feature !
The only con is that it is slow, after clicking on a mode it takes sometimes over 30 seconds to respond.