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captjack1942


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2009-05-19 00:01:24 - weird lines in view screen
This is a problem that I started to notice in leg 5 and in leg 6. Now it has gotten much worse. In the two previous legs it usually showed up as an extension of the land in a wide green line across the screen. On occasion and now in this leg (especially away from land) It shows up as extensions of the course traces of my boat, the lead boat and any other boat selected in the boats tab.
As I zoom in and out the lines jump around and sometimes grow quite large. Zooming in and out definitely causes them to move around and change in width.
This is happening on two different machines, my Vista laptop and my XP desktop. In both FF3.10 and IE 8 on the Vista OS, and FF 3 and IE 7 on the XP OS.
I haven't heard anyone else mention this but it does seem to effect both of my computers, with different OS's and graphics hardware and programs. It is a bit annoying when I'm trying fine tune a course. Any Ideas??
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2009-05-19 00:14:57 - Re: weird lines in view screen
Me too. It mainly happens on the higher magnifications.
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2009-05-19 06:59:11 - Re: weird lines in view screen
Thanks guys for reporting this.

It is certainly more visable during this leg, we know that this bug is there but haven't had the time to work out and implement a fix for it.

We will try to resolve this one soon, Jeroen
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2009-05-19 09:21:35 - Re: weird lines in view screen
Maybe is somehow related to fix for crossing dateline? It first appeared for me during the Leg from China to Rio.
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2009-05-19 09:24:34 - Re: weird lines in view screen
Yes, all these graphic bugs were introduced when we implemented support for datum line crossing. The algorithms actually get a littly tricky when you have vector maps supporting seamsless rotation :) Both me and Jakob currently have a pretty high workload with both our day jobs and SOL and Sailplanner and other things in life - so even though we will fix this it might take a while.

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