[aprssig] Nuvi messaging

[Scott Miller]

You're right, there is a race condition, and I'd considered that. 
There's no way to track the the reply is to - the timestamp is 
associated with when the message is sent and not when it's started - so 
it's certainly a risk.

Most of the time, though, I expect users are only talking to one person. 
  You'll still get a notification if a new message comes in while you're 
typing - it makes a chime noise and shows a letter icon on the screen.

I'll certainly consider putting in a feature request with Garmin to add 
a 'reply' button, but I don't expect they'll want to clutter up their 
nice, simple interface.  Maybe I could talk them into including the 
message ID of the last message received at the time the message was started.

In any case, if you're worried about it, you can just include the callsign.

I did get the message origination working yesterday, so you can specify 
the destination call now.  It's also displaying bulletins.  That'll 
probably have to be an option, since it might get annoying in some places.

Scott
N1VG

Greg D. wrote:
>> Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 20:41:59 -0800
>> From: scott at opentrac.org
>> To: aprssig at lists.tapr.org
>> Subject: Re: [aprssig] Nuvi messaging
>> 
>> {snip}
>> 
>> I could also go with 'To' for the header, but there's too much potential 
>> to get confused with the contents of a reply message.  And I really want 
>> to make reply-to-last the default behavior - it'll speed up QSOs and 
>> reduce errors.
>> 
> 
> Hi Scott,
> 
> Isn't there a race condition here?  By the time you enter your reply text, there's a fair chance that another message could have been received, so your reply could go to the wrong person.  
> 
> Do you capture who the reply is for (right when the reply is started), and display it so that the operator would know where it's going?
> 
> Just checking...
> 
> Greg  KO6TH
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