Bigger Font Sizes for Old Guys
Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2016 11:24 pm
Gentlemen:
I'm an old geezer, and my mobile computer setup has a teensy 800x600 8" touchscreen with not the greatest contrast or brightness. However, bigger screens are more visible to others (like the PD) and get in the way more.
I run the minimal GUI Mode (experimental; when's it gonna go production %^)? and so all I really ever need to see is the Scan APs and Start GPS buttons, and the data shown on the minimal GUI panel.
I have the following feature requests:
1) Ability to set (perhaps on the Misc. Settings panel) the font size on the Minimal GUI screen.
2) Ability to have the Start GPS and Scan APs buttons change color when they are active, or not. Maybe red and green, or something. The reason I ask for this is there has been more than one time that I forgot to click, or perhaps quick-double-clicked, and made a longish run without getting GPS data. Another reason, though occurring much less often, is that sometimes the PC has lost comms with the GPS and the noise the PC makes when it does that is quite soft, and so hard to hear.
3) This might be more like a 2a), as I'd appreciate a way for Vistumbler to warn me that the GPS coordinates its reading are 000/000. Again, this might be a feature of 2) above, but then again maybe not.
4) Vistumbler can already speak signal levels and such, which is pretty cool. Can an option for it to speak the number of NEW APs in a loop be created? Not the number of APs currently being heard, only the new number collected during a loop. This way, when I am walking around with my cheesy backback notebook computer setup, I can listen to it state strings of numbers. I'm sure that would be fun for random listeners around me...
5) Manufacturers based upon the IEEE OUI. I know there's the MAC address lookup to specific AP (like "Jon's Office", or "Jon's Home", or whatever), but what about the ability to read from the downloadable IEEE OUI file and just show the manufacturer's name (like "Cisco", "Netgear", or "Hon-Hai", or whatever)? Would anyone else find that interesting?
I just noticed that on the Settings>GPS tab, the word "received" in the text field to the right of the checkbox for "Disconnect GPS when not data is recieved in over 10 seconds" is misspelled. And "received" is misspelled again in the text for the last checkbox as well. And while I'm at it, on the Settings>Labels tab, the text "New Mac Address" should really be "New MAC Address", since MAC is an acronym. IF you agree with that, the acronym "Mac" is also on the Columns tab.
That's all for now. I will go back under my rock...
Cheers - Jon N7UV
I'm an old geezer, and my mobile computer setup has a teensy 800x600 8" touchscreen with not the greatest contrast or brightness. However, bigger screens are more visible to others (like the PD) and get in the way more.
I run the minimal GUI Mode (experimental; when's it gonna go production %^)? and so all I really ever need to see is the Scan APs and Start GPS buttons, and the data shown on the minimal GUI panel.
I have the following feature requests:
1) Ability to set (perhaps on the Misc. Settings panel) the font size on the Minimal GUI screen.
2) Ability to have the Start GPS and Scan APs buttons change color when they are active, or not. Maybe red and green, or something. The reason I ask for this is there has been more than one time that I forgot to click, or perhaps quick-double-clicked, and made a longish run without getting GPS data. Another reason, though occurring much less often, is that sometimes the PC has lost comms with the GPS and the noise the PC makes when it does that is quite soft, and so hard to hear.
3) This might be more like a 2a), as I'd appreciate a way for Vistumbler to warn me that the GPS coordinates its reading are 000/000. Again, this might be a feature of 2) above, but then again maybe not.
4) Vistumbler can already speak signal levels and such, which is pretty cool. Can an option for it to speak the number of NEW APs in a loop be created? Not the number of APs currently being heard, only the new number collected during a loop. This way, when I am walking around with my cheesy backback notebook computer setup, I can listen to it state strings of numbers. I'm sure that would be fun for random listeners around me...
5) Manufacturers based upon the IEEE OUI. I know there's the MAC address lookup to specific AP (like "Jon's Office", or "Jon's Home", or whatever), but what about the ability to read from the downloadable IEEE OUI file and just show the manufacturer's name (like "Cisco", "Netgear", or "Hon-Hai", or whatever)? Would anyone else find that interesting?
I just noticed that on the Settings>GPS tab, the word "received" in the text field to the right of the checkbox for "Disconnect GPS when not data is recieved in over 10 seconds" is misspelled. And "received" is misspelled again in the text for the last checkbox as well. And while I'm at it, on the Settings>Labels tab, the text "New Mac Address" should really be "New MAC Address", since MAC is an acronym. IF you agree with that, the acronym "Mac" is also on the Columns tab.
That's all for now. I will go back under my rock...
Cheers - Jon N7UV