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| Originally Posted by MattS What exactly do you want to see in the logging software? |
Oh. THAT MattS. <gulp>
Please excuse the <winge mode=on>
Well the things that give me problems are having to add the dive locations and dive sites to the database before I can enter them into a dive. I just want to type the name of the wreck so it is easy to find next time. I don't often dive the same place twice. Yellow as a default colour for a lot of gases when it will be plotted on pale grey. Downloading dive by number - why not just start from the most recent and stop when you get a duplicate? Small icons in details and list display would help so you get more on the screen. Remembering the sort order and where you were in the list after an edit. The graphs are lovely but the axis scales need to be in sensible units not just max/10 (52m max so lines at 5.2, 10.4 etc.). The gas management stuff is incomprehensible to me but I guess it's for OC. Why can I delete some gasses and not others? (Air with 1.95 max ppO2 - I looked for a dive using it and there isn't one.) Why do the cylinders that are greyed change depending on whether or not I have looked at the Gas Profiles? Calculated OC values on display surrounds are trivial but surely could be suppressed if the dive was done in CCR mode eg: max PppO2=0.86 and CNS=12 when I told the VR3 the ppO2 and it made the CNS a very different story. Extracting some deco data would be great even if it is just the time when it started showing stops but the requested profile (drawn as a staircase) would be magic as you would see at a glance how far you kept from it. If we're getting into a wish list - ordering of columns so I can have site and date at the beginning then max depth, duration and bottom mix/dil. When you go to the gas tab of a dive profile and you only used one gas don't show air on the right
The purpose of a log is to look up useful information so it needs to be the best possible capture for minimum effort (because you get no pay back at the time of logging) with clearest possible display for when you are going back thinking 'I dived that a couple of years ago...'
Don't worry. You can't please all of the people all of the time and you can never ever please another software writer for even five minutes.
nigelH