[APBeta] A or B?

[Dan Kuchta]

Hmmm ... I see the problem.   But it brings up a couple of questions:

1) How does the main altitude vs time graphic (left one) work?  Its background colors show the same kind of information.  Does it flip after midnight?  When does it change to the next day?

2) Since the left main graphic already shows the times for sunset/rise and twilights, would it make sense to just add the text to that graphic?  If that makes it too busy, you could just show it on a roll-over.  Maybe something like this:

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I'm not saying this is the best way to handle it.  I certainly don't know all the in's and out's of the software.  But I'm just wondering if there's maybe an alternate way to display this data?

-Dan


On Oct 30, 2010, at 6:56 PM, Paul Rodman wrote:

> 
> On Oct 30, 2010, at 3:48 PM, Dan Kuchta wrote:
> 
>> Just my 2 cents, but I'd prefer that the graphic remained stable instead of flipping modes after midnight. That way I always know where to look for the information instead of having to think about what time it is.  But either way, it's better than the text-only one.
> 
> Well, the text-mode only version does this too.
> 
> The problem is that you really want to see times for the current local date. If you don't change the mode after midnight, it's not clear which day the times refer to.
> 
> Paul R.
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