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View Plate - characters not fully displayed in the "Position", the "Elevation" and the VOR frequency...


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Guido Peterzelka
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Dear Tim,



I just installed SkyDemon Version 2.1.1.21617, and (as was already the case in the previous release) there are following data fields defined too narrowly:



In the Position field/box, on the second page of the View Plate display, I see the distance in NM from the closest bigger landmark e.g. a city. (b.t.w., NM is indicated as "nm" which is a bit unusual; prefer NM in capital letters)

Underneath, the longitude and latitude.

Below that, there are two dots (under the "N" and under the first digit of the seconds) which let me to believe that there is a third row in that box, but the box seems to be too small and the data of the potential third row is not displayed.



Similarly, in the field/box underneath, the n of "Elevation" is slightly cut off on the right side.



Similarly, in the three fields/boxes to the right, I see the three character identifier of the VOR, but if the letters are e.g. NTM, then the M is slightly cut off on the right side (not the case if the letters are e.g. LUX or DIK). As well the third digit of the VOR frequency, as well as the third digit of the distance from that VOR, e.g. if decimal indication, e.g. 1.9 - in these cases the number is cut off on the right side.



There is also a slight gap between the right side of the outer line of all fields/boxes on that page, and the left edge of the buttons "Back", "Pg Up" and "Pg Dn". I believe you could easily redesign the graphic layout of that page to eliminate that gap, and give this space to the actual data fields where the rightmost character, respectively digits, are slightly cut off.



I understand this is all small cosmetics, but should contribute to bring your product even closer to perfect.



Best regards,

Guido
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Thanks, at some point we plan to take a look at ways in which we could improve plate display specifically on mobile devices.
Guido Peterzelka
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Thanks Admin.



However, I'm not talking about ANY device, I'm using YOUR SkyDemon MD. Here I expect a solution a bit earlier than "sometime in the future" !



For third party devices I do understand your priorities are not that high.



Looking for your solution in the next release then.



Very best regards,

Guido
Edited 9/22/2011 10:40:25 PM by Guido Peterzelka
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Fully agree with Guido's post and would like to add, that View Plate needs to be optimized for Mobile SD. On the pictures of runways it is not possible to see runway numbers without zooming.

I would suggest to make runways wider (even if it is not a real scale proportion) to see runway numbers and dimension numbers better.
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We used to artificially increase runway width to make room for text but it looked silly and was misleading. Our current thoughts at the moment are just to overlay a label on the ends of the runway with large label text in a circle, or something.
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Thanks, Tim.

This is also good solution.
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