a feature is desired which allows the user through a pop up box when loading files to be notified that the selection will overflow the available ram and use swap space, they will then be given 3 options, abort, continue, or use hard drive/main memory caching.

abort does what it says on the tin as does continue (which should have a warning message pointing out that your about to have your swap filled and this will make the machine unresponsive and cause serious problems if the machine runs out of swap memory)

the third option will cause the flight lines to be loaded but to be stored on the hard drive rather than in ram. This will provide stable access to full resolution data at the cost of speed.

wish list: the program will be intelligent about the cashing, loading in the most relevant data to main memory to reduce response time when the user is only viewing a small portion of the data

the program will be multi threaded allowing data to be pulled off the hard drive while the user is still using the gui. for instance while the users is zooming in and out of a small area, a larger area around it is being moved to main memory in anticipation of the user viewing it.

supplemental to this any and all options to further reduce the memory footprint of loaded flight lines need to be looked at

to further expand the functionality relating to selecting a point and seeing information on that point.

allow the user to hold down right click and move the mouse over points, when the cursor gets near a point the information appears.

at low zoom levels this would allow the user to click and drag there mouse over the points (as their zoomed out it will almost always be selecting a point) and see the changing values. useful in seeing height changes, intensity changes, etc.

needs to be real time and smooth but this shouldn't be too hard with the speed of the subsetting methods (hopefully :D )

system : pmpc974 Build number: 2010.01.26.1

if you run lag in fedora 12 you lose the text beneath all of the buttons in the main view.