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Posted by victory Posts 36 Registered at 2009-04-18 11:37:25	2010-08-22 15:04:18 - Colours
	Is it possible to change some of the colours of things on the course. Our own boat is Magenta,lead boat is simular. Sometimes when the lead boat jumps ahead you think it is your own boat.Marks, arrows, names and rumbline are red. In the shorter races when the fleet is tightly bunched it gets a bit hard to define what is what.Or maybe even put the arrows away from the mark, say one before and one after and the names further away from the marks. Also is it possible to make the BS and VMG numbers in the steering tab a wee bit bigger. Thanks --- Last Edited by victory at 2010-08-22 15:06:05 ---
Posted by zero Posts 120 Registered at 2010-02-07 16:56:30	2010-08-22 15:37:08 - Re: Colours
	Another vote for all Victory's suggestions. We are all getting old here and those tiny little numbers (so important to see) get very difficult to differentiate the 6's with the 8's and the 5's. LOL And I agreed the leading boat should have a completly different color than our boat. (Yes, yes, the youngster here on SOL may not understand our request but wait till you are way past 50 and you will understand) Thanks, Antonio
Posted by Exmeromotu Posts 71 Registered at 2008-12-10 15:22:17	2010-08-22 16:47:28 - Re: Colours
	I totally agree with Victory's suggestions too. If possible it could be taken one step further by having the ability to toggle on or off the rhumbline and lettering for the waypoints, by toggling the rhumbline and lettering off when needed it would make planing and navigating around waypoints a lot easier when in full zoom. I have no idea how hard that is to code though... just put it on wishlist. Cheers!
Posted by Jawz Posts 154 Registered at 2009-07-21 09:51:19	2010-08-23 11:36:37 - Re: Colours
	I agree with Victory, Zero and Exmeromotu. From time to time I do well, like this last weekend and I can see that when you are competing and really need to concentrate the points that Victory raises becomes critical to your success. If we can make a few changes it would make a big improvement.
Posted by theviking71 Posts 15 Registered at 2008-12-09 23:09:24	2010-08-25 10:56:47 - Re: Colours
	One more vote for all the suggestions. I thought it was only me starting to see the numbers a bit blurry... /theviking71 --- Last Edited by theviking71 at 2010-08-25 11:00:33 ---
Posted by Eddie C. Dost Posts 57 Registered at 2008-08-23 11:40:29	2010-08-26 16:17:44 - Re: Colours
	Let me try to summarize your points, please correct me if I forgot anything! 1. Bs and Vmg in stearing tab should be bigger. 2. There should be a better distinction in colors between own ship, marks, rhumb lines, and leading ship. 3. It should be possible to turn off rhumb lines and texts. Point 1. should be easily fixed. Point 3. requires some new button and some thought. Point 2. might be fixed by looking at the IHO S-52 standard for presentation of digital charts (with some level of freedom): Colors given in day/night: Own ship and predictor: magenta/magenta. Leading ship: blue/blue. Waypoints: red,green/red,green. Rhumblines and Arrows: orange/orange. Waypoint Text: black/white. The shades of colors should be adjusted to give a good contrast depending on day or night view. Please help by providing some feedback if I got everything in my list, it's so much easier to look through the code just once... Thanks! _/)_/)_/) The sea is lovely, dark, and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to sail before I sleep, And miles to sail before I sleep.
Posted by A2 Posts 347 Registered at 2009-10-26 00:39:42	2010-08-26 19:18:06 - Re: Colours
	One suggestion that I had made earlier in another thread somewhere (Technical Issues) relating to the tracks of other boats and their day/night visibility. The ability to invert the colour of all tracks via an either/or toggled radio button. There may be a more elegant method to make all tracks visible in all conditions but I felt my suggestion would accomplish the most with the least amount of work. Currently the leader & your own tracks are automatically displayed with the ability to select one other boat. Would it be possible to select 2 boats aside from the leader & your own to highlight in case you wanted to follow a head to head competition that you are not involved in ? --- Last Edited by Elmer Fudd at 2010-08-26 19:41:43 --- None so blind
Posted by zero Posts 120 Registered at 2010-02-07 16:56:30	2010-08-27 01:37:59 - Re: Colours
	Eddie, The little 4 numbers on the top right (TWS/TWD,NM/angle) and the BS/VMG at the steering cursors are the most difficult to read. It would be super great to see those numbers bigger. Thank you very much, appreciate your help. Antonio
Posted by SWE54 Posts 29 Registered at 2007-08-11 10:02:20	2010-09-12 11:39:42 - Re: Colours
	I also would like the instrument panel to change color during night, to some kind of orange/yellow shade perhaps. And is it possible to add a toggle button for turning the right panel (polar etc) on/off to make the map window larger? Mike SWE54 --- Last Edited by SWE54 at 2010-09-12 11:41:57 ---

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