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- | ====== piMars Aug 22 ====== | ||
- | Yesterday and today have been rather busy ref piMars. Yesterday I managed to streamline the time calculations to half the number of lines of code as well as take lots of pictures and screenshots for MagPi. | ||
- | Today has been all about tweaking the configuration interface and adding features that might prove useful to someone. It looks a lot neater (and professional) now. I always find it is faster and more advatageous to worry about what the program looks like after the code is working properly. | ||
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- | ==== Replacement FTP Library ==== | ||
- | The FTP library I was using - or one of the libraries it depended on - was using a deprecated function, and that was throwing warnings up everytime it was used. I found another FTP library that seemed lighter on the dependencies. It worked differently, | ||
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- | ==== New Config Options ==== | ||
- | It is necessary to fetch leap second bulletins from IERS, and this is done by FTP. However, many companies force ftp usage through a proxy, so I added a proxy option enabling the user to select the IP address and port for the proxy. This doesn' | ||
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- | In addition, I've set an option to change the window dimensions from 800x480 to something else. If you are using a different sized monitor, this will help to set the ideal size. Note that changing the size of the window can adversely affect the layout of skins, but if you need a full 1920x1080 window (or larger) then you'll probably have to make some skins yourself. | ||
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- | ==== Config Changes Undo ==== | ||
- | All changes made in the configuration screen can now be discarded by selecting the '' |