[aprssig] Guve XASTIR a RADAR style display

Curt, WE7U archer at eskimo.com
Fri Feb 3 16:38:56 EST 2006


On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, Jason Winningham wrote:

> > Might look more like a clock
> > though 'cuz it wouldn't be a totally smooth sweep:  It'd be
> > "ticking" one degree at a time.  If it was fast enough people might
> > not notice the discrete steps though.
>
> looks kind of rough.  the xastir update rate limits you to about a once
> every 20 seconds rate, unless you want to twiddle some of xastir's
> code.

Ok, so you plop multiple objects there, one per second, and kill the
last one each time.  That would give you a faster rate I believe.
Or, like you said, tweak the code if it doesn't.

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