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authorGravatar Willem Ferguson <willemferguson@zoology.up.ac.za>2017-01-12 08:01:09 +0200
committerGravatar Dirk Hohndel <dirk@hohndel.org>2017-01-12 21:11:54 -0800
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Subsurface user manual update
Generate text for: 1) Splitting a dive from the dive list context menu 2) Importing photos from the Internet Signed-off-by: Willem Ferguson <willemferguson@zoology.up.ac.za> Signed-off-by: Dirk Hohndel <dirk@hohndel.org>
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@@ -1717,8 +1717,14 @@ photographs that need to be loaded into _Subsurface_ and click the _Open_ button
image::images/LoadImage2_f20.jpg["FIGURE: Load images option",align="center"]
-This brings up the time synchronization dialog, shown below. The time
-synchronization is not perfect between the dive computer used during a dive,
+If photos are imported from the Internet, provide a URL pointing to a single photograph.
+If the URL points to a directory, no images are imported: photos from the Internet
+need to be imported one at a time. If photos are loaded from the Internet, _Subsurface_
+assumes there is an Internet connection each time this photo is viewed within
+_Subsurface_.
+
+Having selected the local folder ot Internet image to be imported, the time synchronization dialog appears (see image below). The time
+synchronization is not perfect between the dive computer used during a dive
and the camera used during that same dive. These two devices
often differ by several minutes. _Subsurface_ attempts to synchronize these two devices
so that the exact times of photographs can be used to position photographs on
@@ -2589,7 +2595,6 @@ restored to view by selecting Unhide all events from the context menu.
Several actions on either a single dive, or a group of dives, can be performed using the Dive List
Context Menu. It is found by selecting either a single dive or a group of dives and then right-clicking.
-// TODO: NEEDS REPLACEMENT
image::images/ContextMenu.jpg["Figure: Context Menu",align="center"]
The context menu is used in many functions described below.
@@ -2753,10 +2758,25 @@ below shows the depth profile of two dives that were merged:
image::images/MergedDive.png["Example: Merged dive",align="center"]
+==== Split selected dives
+
+On some occasions, a diver reaches the surface and immediately dives again. However,
+it may happen that the dive computer does not register a new dive, but continues
+the previous dive due to the brief surface interval. In this case it is possible to
+split a dive so that the two dives are shown as independent dives on the *Dive List*.
+If this operation is performed, _Subsurface_ scans the selected dive(s) and splits the
+dive at points during the dive where the depth is less than a metre.
+
+==== Load image(s) from file(s)
+This topic is discussed in the section: xref:S_LoadImage[Adding photographs to dives].
+
+==== Load image from web
+This topic is discussed in the section: xref:S_LoadImage[Adding photographs to dives].
+
==== Undo dive manipulations
Important actions on dives or trips, described above, can be undone or redone.
-This includes: _delete dives_, _merge dives_, _renumber dives_ and _shift dive times_.
+This includes: _delete dives_, _merge dives_, _split selected dives_, _renumber dives_ and _shift dive times_.
To do this after performing any of these actions, from the *Main Menu* select
_Edit_. This brings up the possibility to _Undo_ or _Redo_ an action.