Improve icon on recalculate button, and don't use same icon for fast and short profiles

Andrew Heard shared this idea 8 years ago
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In the navigation panel the Recalculate button now has an icon overlay of the compute profile that will be used. Can the icon be made a little larger and/or easier to view? Maybe move it to the whitespace on the right side of the circular arrow where there is plenty of space.

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The same icon is used for the fast bike and short bike profiles, so there is no way to tell visually which one is being used; only from memory. Can each profile be given its own unique icon; and if subtle difference then even more important the visible size is a little larger.

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I had to make a screen capture & zoom in to tell the fast car icon is a formula one car. It looks like a person lying on a toboggan when viewed directly. Maybe just an ordinary car is sufficient to distinguish from the van/ bus icon?


And of course in longer term, if computer source is BRouter for example, and all profiles are unrelated to those icons, then the situation is even more confusing. But that dog can wait for another day...

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(Auto) Recalculate Navigation should memorise the last choosen (auto)routing profile.

Locus Pro 3.18.6 By long push on manual recalculate button choose profile is not memorised when a new (tcx) navigation session is started. Results in unexpected offtrack autorecalculating result by using wrong (Fast-recumbent bike ? F1 ?) profile, or even refuses to (auto)recalculate, or a not succesfull autorecalculation toward (priority)points because positioned at an unexpected place for that "Fast" routerprofile.

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>"In the navigation panel the Recalculate button now has an icon overlay of the compute profile that will be used."

' think this concerns rather the tts types "navigation_start_car", "navigation_start_bicycle" and "navigation_start_foot".

isn't it?

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Hi Gynta, sorry ...do not understand, In manual ? In forum Help ? Start Navigation of tcx course.

In tcx courses there is no (pre)indication for Locus app of the profile that was used by external design programs.

Using (auto)recalculate function only very rarely, but rerouting result was not always very sucesfull. Still struggling with the 'must pass via' or priority points. Sometimes seems to do what is expected, sometimes not. You know more, or had better stable experiences ?

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