What does "point restart" do?

[tymbee]

Just starting to take a look at the new release. Slick...

Perhaps there's a way to do what I want, but I haven't figured it out.

We do aerial photography and use TF to locate position points by matching GPS track points with digital image timestamp information.

Often I'll look at the full .gpx track file, then locate a point on the track points tab in the track properties. After locating this point, what I want to do is to use the track playback function to start playing the track from that point.

But when I'm viewing the track profile in playback mode, "Begin Playback" always goes back to the beginning of the track. I can use the slider at bottom to manually go to a point, but again, "Begin Playback" wont' start playing back from that point-- it just goes back to the start.

I thought perhaps "point restart" might be what I've been looking for, but... ? Is there any way to begin playback at a point on the track you select manually??

[Krein]

Hi,

The "point restart" function is actually in multitrack playback, not single track playback.  It allows you to start the playback for all tracks when they are nearest the point you click on the map.

But you can also start a single track playback at some point in the middle by using the slider.  I see now (testing) that the slider does go back to the left side when you start (or resume) playback, but the playback is actually starting where the slider *was.*  I'll mark this as to be fixed.

Have you noticed that photos are viewed as playback proceeds?  Is this useful at all for your purposes?

Thanks.