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John Moriarty
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I drag a route leg to avoid a prohibited area. I name it "A" temporarily. I then remove that name but it gets replaced with the lat/long coords, I want to delete it entirely but cannot do so by right clicking, only in the edit menu...

can i do:

a) rename the waypoint?

b) drag the label of the point rather like a comment in excel so it does not block the view of the route?

JM
Tim Dawson
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This week's release, 0.9.10, should make this process easier. You no longer have to drag to a specific waypoint when altering a route by dragging it, you can just drag anywhere. When you're happy you can then right-click the turning point (which will just be coordinates) and create a user waypoint at that location, and thereby give it a name.
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I like that - great functional addition.



Now, if you put "delete" on the right click menu of a selected waypoit it'd be pretty close to perfect!



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It would be nice to show/hide waypoint coords/names because their presence obscures the flightpath. I think google maps has a similar feature...

JM
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I see that release 0.9.11.20828 has done this - many thanks.



Now, any chance of an option to optionally suppress display of route labels, or move the labels off to one side of the route :-)



It really is a super program, the Enroute features display including TAF or METAR data is wonderful.



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Ooops, my 09:40 post referred to the "right click delete" option.

Sorry for any confusion.



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Unfortunately there isn't scope for this option before release, however we have stopped displaying labels for non-waypoint points in the route (i.e. the result of rubberbanding to avoid something).
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What you've done with waypoints is a great help,



Thank you

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