Erich, Thanks for the explanation. Would it be cleaner to delete all the old sats loaded in the table when the user switches to a different list? The current behavior is unpredictable.

Jim

On 7/20/2016 12:06 AM, Erich Eichmann wrote:

Jim, If you want to track other satellites from a different "list" (that means from a different source file) use the "Groups" feature (menu "Satellites"). You can create "selected" lists for up to 12 groups. You can select the source file you want to use with the particular group. The selection will be saved when you click the "OK" button in menu "Satellites". When you later select a group the program will unload the previously loaded satellites and read the new data from the selected source file and display (only) the satellites selected for the group.

With your methode (loading another source file and selecting a satellite from that file while you are tracking the satellites from another source file) one or more satellites from the previously loaded source file can remain loaded. If the second data file is shorter than the first one it will not overwrite all data lines of the first file and the satellite data from these lines will remain loaded until you restart the program.

73s, Erich, DK1TB

Am 17.07.2016 um 23:38 schrieb Jim White:

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When I switch to a satellite in a different keps list and select just one sat to be visible and be the active satellite one or more sats from the previous list continue to show up in the display. I have to select the new sat twice before the old ones disappear.

Example: I had 6 sats in the display from the 'amateur' list. Using the satellites menu I switched to the 'cubesat' list, selected just one sat, made it visible and made it the active sat. Clicked OK and one of the sats from the 'amateur' list continues to be visible in the display along with the cubesat I just selected. Back into the satellites menu and my selection of the cubesat list and the one cubesat has disappeared. Selected the cubesat list and the one satellite again, back into display and the one from the amateur list is still visible along with the cubesat. Into the satellites menu and now cubesat is selected and my one cubesast is shown in the selected box, and when I OK that back to the display the phantom one from the amateur list is finally gone.

How can get the program to take the changes I make to what is displayed and tracked the first time?

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