Last night’s push to production included a couple of new features and a few other minor tweaks here and there. ‘Autocomplete’ functionality is a new feature and will certainly help when you can’t remember the ICAO code for an airport or observation station.
Basically, it works like this: as you type, a snippet of background code communicates what you’ve typed with the server. This code is engaged after you’ve typed two characters. The server then scans through our ICAO station data set looking for matches and presents a list of candidates. The server looks for matches using both the ICAO code and the station name.
The matches are then merged together and sorted by station code so that you get a nice list of stations to choose from. A couple of pending minor enhancements will really speed up the matching. It’s pretty quick already, but ‘blazing fast’ is the only acceptable outcome! Speed counts when it comes to providing an acceptable user experience.
Shortly, you’ll see the Cleared Visual (
) indicators next to search results which will let you see the flight rules in effect based on the station’s most recent observations.
Also in this minor update is:
- Support for setting your time zone, which will be used to present observations in local time or zulu time.
- A user preference for preferred language (yup, foreign translations are coming).
- A couple of bug fixes for the widgets.
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