Color for tracks about routeconverter HOT 8 CLOSED

Well I guess it's pretty clear why I need more colors. It's to achieve this: http://download.tvbrowser.org/plugins/routeconverter-show-in-background

With all that changes it's now possible to show position lists in the background without it getting in the way of creating or changing another position list. I'm sure there are still plenty of bugs in there but as proof of concept it's that what I wanted.

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I‘m sorry but I cannot watch the video on my phone. Will come back to you after my holidays

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Thanks for your reply, I've already assumed that you are on vacation. In the meantime I've succeeded in getting it to work to load/save KML colors and the background painting of waypoints/routes/tracks is also working really well now.

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I've compiled a version with the color and background route changes, so you can test it directly with RouteConverter: http://download.tvbrowser.org/plugins/RouteConverterLinuxOpenSource.jar

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Shouldn't the "Show in Background" be placed closer to the combobox or be part of it to avoid confusion? Most users rarely use RouteConverter and might easily be confused if another track is still shown on the map.

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Well as I pointed out this is more a proof of concept as the completed solution. If you think the "Show in Background" should be placed closer to the combobox I could do that. I personally don't think users are that easily confused. A new user will rarely even use multiple position list in one file and the checkbox could even be disabled if only one position list exists in a file. Further a user will see the difference between the checkbox selected and not selected. If you would prefer I could also make the checkbox optional via a hidden preference, that way only expert users will even be able to use the function to show more than one track. Personally I don't think it needs to be hidden, when a user tries new software it will always be demanding to use it.

The change is of course catered to my needs since I often need to see POIs that are not connected to the route planned around it and as I had read in the Forum I'm not the only one who needs this function.

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The feature was requested several times in the past, but I didn't find a maintainable way to implement it. I performed several refactorings to make it easier, so I'm curious how you'd want to implement it?

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Did you try the test build I've linked?

The idea is to keep the layers with the waypoints/track/route and not remove it when the user selects another list from the drop down menu or creates a new waypoint list. The layers are saved in a map for later deleting, the layers are then deleted when the user selects the list with the layer that was previously put in background. So every time the user select a list it will be drawn new, like it currently is.

Currently I've no access to the device I've used to develop the test build, so at the moment I cannot show you the relevant parts of the source code. I've used this test build version for the last couple of weeks and it works really well most of the time but still has some issues with ghost waypoints/tracks under certain conditions.

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