Re: [Xastir] Tiger2006 - dbfawk

2007-07-27 Thread Curt, WE7U
he main thing I needed was to get the dbfinfo working. I'm not > familiar with what the other utilities do - sounds like some more reading. I use the *info and *dump utilities at times for looking inside Shapefiles. Just try them against a Shapefile map to see what they do. -- Curt, WE

Re: [Xastir] Tiger2006 - dbfawk

2007-07-27 Thread Curt, WE7U
nges may be fairly portable across OS'es. It might be nice to get the Makefile.am pieces for the Shapefile utils folded into our standard Xastir Makefiles someday as another "make" target, but it's not strictly necessary. -- Curt, WE7U: XASTIR: "Lotto: A tax on

Re: [Xastir] basic map question

2007-07-24 Thread Curt, WE7U
The street maps should be the polyline maps. Water and county boundaries and such are in the polygon files. You can safely delete the polygon files if you're only interested in street maps. -- Curt, WE7U: XASTIR: "Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unkn

Re: [Xastir] Have lost the Online maps.... and a couple of other Q's

2007-07-24 Thread Curt, WE7U
actually uses, which I think connects to one of Xastir's server ports. If he doesn't respond directly, I'll try to find his address. -- Curt, WE7U: XASTIR: "Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft&

Re: [Xastir] Festival & Xastir

2007-07-24 Thread Curt, WE7U
tival I need to get going? You might have another sound daemon that already has control of /dev/dsp. That'd be my first guess. -- Curt, WE7U: XASTIR: "Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates."

Re: [Xastir] Modifier Found

2007-07-24 Thread Curt, WE7U
stem, great. Just make sure your three mouse buttons work as intended, else leave the warnings on so you know why they don't when you try them. -- Curt, WE7U: XASTIR: "Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer i

Re: [Xastir] Screen Resolution problem

2007-07-20 Thread Curt, WE7U
it can't support that resolution and jumps down to the ugly one. Definitely an X11 server -> video card sort of problem, not an Xastir problem. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknow

Re: [Xastir] Radio frequency question from a simpleton

2007-07-19 Thread Curt, WE7U
on this SIG and noticed additional "stuff" in Xastir's "Station Info" dialog for my station... -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax on

Re: [Xastir] Radio frequency question from a simpleton

2007-07-19 Thread Curt, WE7U
D byte. > It's hard to remember -- my wife > found a gray hair in my head last week! If you need any more, let me know. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microso

Re: [Xastir] Radio frequency question from a simpleton

2007-07-19 Thread Curt, WE7U
RS. The program in this case _should_ filter out anything that's not the APRS protocol ID, but some may not. Your post was on topic BTW. At least as far as I'm concerned. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at

Re: [Xastir] Radio frequency question from a simpleton

2007-07-19 Thread Curt, WE7U
Xastir was the bastard child of the whole APRS scene and we had to struggle hard to compete with the true-blue licensees. It hasn't always been roses, but has been for quite some time now. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on pe

Re: [Xastir] Radio frequency question from a simpleton

2007-07-19 Thread Curt, WE7U
ways heard that you can't protect a protocol, but IANAL. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illitera

RE: [Xastir] Bad iGate messages being passed thru server port?

2007-07-19 Thread Curt, WE7U
net on the server: FWIW: Xastir sends a CRLF after each packet it sends to the internet, which appears to be the "standard", although I don't think the standard was ever written down. Perhaps there are other programs out there that add just a CR or just an LF on the end when th

Re: [Xastir] Screen Resolution problem

2007-07-19 Thread Curt, WE7U
o change to the next resolution you have defined. Perhaps your X11 has a different set of commands though. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax on com

Re: [Xastir] Radio frequency question from a simpleton

2007-07-19 Thread Curt, WE7U
'm in SAR and have investigated this myself for my county. We cannot currently use APRS on our SAR frequencies. We'd have to ammend our licenses. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "

Re: [Xastir] Success with shapefiles!!!

2007-07-19 Thread Curt, WE7U
shapefile has an associated database file that _can_ have attributes in it, but the type/number/order of these attributes is entirely undefined by the spec. Enter dbfawk: An awk-like language for describing which columns to use from the DBF file and how to use them. Dbfawk is Xastir-specific. -- C

Re: [Xastir] Bad iGate messages being passed thru server port?

2007-07-18 Thread Curt, WE7U
rday I noticed it was > intermittent, as well as always on the igated messages and never on the > incoming message. In the mean time I rewrote my app to throw out > bad/invalid callsigns. Could it be a character-set issue? Try this: export LANG=C telnet localhost 2023 -

Re: [Xastir] Bad iGate messages being passed thru server port?

2007-07-18 Thread Curt, WE7U
two characters aren't missing on any of them near as I can tell. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer

Re: [Xastir] Trouble with ddf and tif maps

2007-07-18 Thread Curt, WE7U
e white borders, save them in MrSID format which we can't read, or otherwise muck with the TIFF format to save space on their site. We can read the original USGS geoTIFF format just fine. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people wh

Re: [Xastir] Oops...

2007-07-18 Thread Curt, WE7U
ws XP or even the Kubuntu live cd are just > fine. Is there a way to renew the video driver from the live CD??? Can't help on that one, sorry. Hopefully somebody else will chime in. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on pe

Re: [Xastir] UI-View maps in Xastir?

2007-07-18 Thread Curt, WE7U
e README.MAPS file to see some other map options. Personally I prefer vector maps over raster maps, except for topo maps. Then again, there are ways to do topo contours with vector files too! -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on

[Xastir] Xastir Development Release

2007-07-17 Thread Curt, WE7U
ject/showfiles.php?group_id=45562&release_id=516341> or browse Release Notes and ChangeLog by visiting this link: <https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=516341> Xastir Homepage: <http://www.xastir.org> The LSB and SuSE-10.0 Linux versions have been upda

Re: [Xastir] Weather RADAR

2007-07-16 Thread Curt, WE7U
es 330-337. Then look at the xastir_snprintf() lines where the "WMStmp" variable is constructed, which then gets copied to the "fileimg" variable before the check for it in the map cache, then the call to fetch_remote_file() if it's not in the cache. -- Curt, WE7U.

Re: [Xastir] AX25

2007-07-16 Thread Curt, WE7U
egular user privileges when it doesn't need the SUID root privileges though, so you're _relatively_ safe doing this: su chmod 4755 /usr/local/bin/xastir We make no guarantees that it's safe to do the above, but to my knowledge nobody's been hacked into via Xastir so f

Re: [Xastir] Still struggling with connection to interent on a laptop

2007-07-16 Thread Curt, WE7U
/download through the > windows side and somehow get what Linux wants? Yes. You can snag RPM's via FTP on the Windows side, then reboot into Linux and access them there. To do this you'll need your Windows partition mounted on your Linux system. Preferably read-only, particul

Re: [Xastir] Showing only one station/trail

2007-07-16 Thread Curt, WE7U
rn off interfaces in Xastir, clear all stations, then suck in that log file. cd ~/.xastir/logs grep -i "WE7U-12" tnc3.log > temp.log grep -i "WE7U-12" tnc2.log >> temp.log grep -i "WE7U-12" tnc1.log >> temp.log grep -i &qu

Re: [Xastir] Weather RADAR

2007-07-16 Thread Curt, WE7U
t check it out anyway to make sure. I believe Xastir tries to get a WMS map that includes only your current view, so to get one that goes out 250 miles from your QTH, zoom out that far. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people wh

Re: [Xastir] Weather Shapes formatting

2007-07-12 Thread Curt, WE7U
I believe all the weather alert-related stuff is hard-coded. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- WE7U "The world D

Re: [Xastir] FCC lookup

2007-07-12 Thread Curt, WE7U
00|0003121316|I||| > > Do you see anything "strange" in it? Not off-hand, but I don't have time right now to check how many '|' characters there are supposed to be and other such things. Just a thought: There's not a chance you're typing '0' (ze

Re: [Xastir] FCC lookup

2007-07-12 Thread Curt, WE7U
inal file may have some corrupt lines or they changed the format on us. Like I said, my searches here on that callsign work fine, but it's not the latest database. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math."

Re: [Xastir] FCC lookup

2007-07-12 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Earl Needham via Kubuntu wrote: > Where are the indices? I don't see them inteh same directory as > EN.dat. ~/.xastir/data/appl.ndx and AMACALL.ndx (one is the FCC, one the RAC index). -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~ar

Re: [Xastir] FCC lookup

2007-07-12 Thread Curt, WE7U
r perhaps the timestamps on your file got messed up in the download process so Xastir thinks the indexes are newer than the file. You can try "touch EN.dat" to update the timestamp on the file and try Xastir's search again. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo

Re: [Xastir] FCC lookup

2007-07-12 Thread Curt, WE7U
case-insensitive search for the text through the entire file. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- WE7U "The world D

Re: [Xastir] FCC lookup

2007-07-12 Thread Curt, WE7U
ded this > morning. A search here picked up that callsign in the FCC database, but I'm not running the latest database either. I can't update to the latest database right now 'cuz I'm very low on disk space. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~a

Re: [Xastir] Keeping stations

2007-07-11 Thread Curt, WE7U
r INET or TNC, then bring in the last log file after you start up. It's not automatic though. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer ill

Re: [Xastir] WXSVR appears to be dead...

2007-07-11 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Sun, 8 Jul 2007, Richard Polivka, N6NKO wrote: > Warnings abound in UP of Michigan and Xastir shows none and the log is > blank. One of my Xastir instances which is zoomed out to U.S.-level is showing some alerts in other areas. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eski

Re: [Xastir] openSUSE 10.2 CVS Success

2007-07-11 Thread Curt, WE7U
/when Xastir bombs out of configure due to the above reasons, what sort of text would make it obvious to you how to proceed to fix it? I suspect the current text isn't adequate. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are ba

Re: [Xastir] educate the un-informed

2007-07-11 Thread Curt, WE7U
recision that is transmitted, and we show that as the ambiguity boxes. Pretty much the same thing. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illite

Re: [Xastir] openSUSE 10.2 CVS Success

2007-07-06 Thread Curt, WE7U
f anyone sees any different operation, let me know. Should configure continue past the above mentioned items as well? The thing to be wary of is getting to the summary thinking everything is rosy, but having a warning/error message occur way before that which has scrolled off the screen. -- C

Re: [Xastir] openSUSE 10.2 CVS Success

2007-07-06 Thread Curt, WE7U
... : no -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- WE7U "The world DOES revolve arou

Re: [Xastir] A success report and an inquiry

2007-07-06 Thread Curt, WE7U
which cities to show at which zoom levels. Since Shapefiles have support for point formats, I'm good with converting. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's

Re: [Xastir] openSUSE 10.2 CVS Success

2007-07-06 Thread Curt, WE7U
equate to the task so I had to go with Lesstif there. I install OpenMotif via packages when I need it, in this case RPM's. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft&#

Re: [Xastir] openSUSE 10.2 CVS Success

2007-07-06 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, Curt, WE7U wrote: > the only way I get fourced of my Yea... That's the right spelling. Trust me... -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Micr

Re: [Xastir] openSUSE 10.2 CVS Success

2007-07-06 Thread Curt, WE7U
other people's viewpoints. Otherwise I'm just always right by default. ;-) -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax o

Re: [Xastir] A success report and an inquiry

2007-07-06 Thread Curt, WE7U
these things out in separate sessions. Maybe I should do some searches over the weekend, pull out some good previous discussions, and either repost them or put them up on the web somewhere (a Wiki page or three perhaps?) and we can start thinking about what we want in the future. -- Curt, WE7U.

Re: [Xastir] A success report and an inquiry

2007-07-06 Thread Curt, WE7U
I never knew about those options before, and > you're right, it does make it a LOT easier to read! I use the text-on-black option most of the time too. No matter what maps you're using the text is always visible. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer

Re: [Xastir] openSUSE 10.2 CVS Success

2007-07-06 Thread Curt, WE7U
possible back to the list though, as that actually keeps the numbers of repeat questions down. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax on

Re: [Xastir] openSUSE 10.2 CVS Success

2007-07-06 Thread Curt, WE7U
Building with profiling (Debug) : no Building with Linux Standard Base .. : no xastir will be installed in /usr/local/bin. Type 'make' to build Xastir (Use 'gmake' instead on some systems). ----

Re: [Xastir] A success report and an inquiry

2007-07-06 Thread Curt, WE7U
to read - is there any way to increase their size > or anything to make them more readable? Look at the defines starting at about line 217 of main.c. Might be what you're looking for. Might not. Worth a shot anyway. This should probably go in as a togglebutton at some point. -- Curt, W

Re: [Xastir] openSUSE 10.2 CVS Success

2007-07-06 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, Curt, WE7U wrote: > MINIMUM OPTIONS: > Building with ShapeLib . : yes (Internal) > > RECOMMENDED OPTIONS: > Building with GraphicsMagick/ImageMagick ... : GraphicsMagick > Building with pcre .

Re: [Xastir] openSUSE 10.2 CVS Success

2007-07-06 Thread Curt, WE7U
we should tweak the "configure" output to be as understandable as possible, plus keep the docs up-to-date which are distributed with the sources. I don't want the Wiki to become the source for everything. It doesn't work for everybody. Wiki's also get hacked periodically. -- Cu

Re: [Xastir] openSUSE 10.2 CVS Success

2007-07-06 Thread Curt, WE7U
tandard Base .. : no --- -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- WE7

Re: [Xastir] openSUSE 10.2 CVS Success

2007-07-06 Thread Curt, WE7U
t I'm only one voice here. Majority (of the developers, and sometimes users) rules. Doing the same or similar for libraries would no doubt run into the same opposition. We'd be taking over duties best left to package managers, plus cross-platform issues could be quite tricky if not imp

Re: [Xastir] New geocode database files available at aprs.tamu.edu

2007-07-06 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, Tom Russo wrote: > All of the geocode files are up on > ftp://aprs.tamu.edu/pub/geocode/States > and are available now thanks to Gerry Creager. Do the Wiki and our docs point there? -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lott

Re: [Xastir] openSUSE 10.2 CVS Success

2007-07-06 Thread Curt, WE7U
main distribution, we peridocially have "discussions" about this. I had to fight hard to get Shapelib added. Generally it's not a good idea to add libraries in this manner, as then we have more maintenance trying to keep up with their releases and updating our sources to ma

Re: [Xastir] openSUSE 10.2 CVS Success

2007-07-06 Thread Curt, WE7U
libcurl" in the STDERR output when you start up Xastir, but it'd be nice to have it show up in the configure summary as well: "Support for these additional map types has been compiled in: geo Image Map (ImageMagick/GraphicsMagick library, many formats allowed) geo

Re: [Xastir] openSUSE 10.2 CVS Success

2007-07-06 Thread Curt, WE7U
eneral perception that _everything_ listed above that line is needed in order to run, or is it just overachievers (like me) that feel the need to see a positive indication for every option? -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who a

Re: [Xastir] openSUSE C header location

2007-07-05 Thread Curt, WE7U
eMagick if you want internet maps. Seems most people do these days. The INSTALL doc should have most info you'll need. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's

Re: [Xastir] Status

2007-07-05 Thread Curt, WE7U
know how findu ages things. Perhaps as long as your station is active peridically the status message will stay? Only Steve Dimse knows for sure. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows:

RE: [Xastir] CYGWIN?

2007-07-05 Thread Curt, WE7U
- Specify the sockets which ax25spyd will provide and other options - - The configfile is not used yet! - - ax25_validate (3) [ax25] - AX25 Address manipulation routines - Sorry about the long lines which will probably wrap on you. Anyway, more questions? Ask away! -- Curt, WE7U. A

RE: [Xastir] CYGWIN?

2007-07-05 Thread Curt, WE7U
; submitted to Curt so the README can be updated. I'd be happy to. I'm no longer testing Cygwin as Windows machines near me are getting harder to come by (by design). Any help in updating Cygwin docs is greatly appreciated. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo

Re: [Xastir] Xastir's in ADEPT

2007-07-05 Thread Curt, WE7U
put those scripts into CVS in case anyone else needs to do something similar, or if I drop off the face of the earth someday. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft'

Re: [Xastir] Xastir's in ADEPT

2007-07-05 Thread Curt, WE7U
onably up-to-date. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- WE7U "The world DOES rev

Re: [Xastir] Weather RADAR

2007-07-05 Thread Curt, WE7U
his reply is that Xastir already > asks for only enough data to fill the size of the current display window. Yes. Exactly. So set your map window to the size that you want the radar data for and Xastir should grab approximately the correct number of pixels to fill your screen. -- Curt, W

Re: [Xastir] RTFM

2007-07-03 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Curt, WE7U wrote: > About time I said that! New FAQ questions answers added recently > available from CVS or from the "documentation->old Xastir > documentation->FAQ" section on the main web pages. > > 4.30 Why can't I see station trai

Re: [Xastir] Weather RADAR

2007-07-03 Thread Curt, WE7U
"&WIDTH=%d", geo_image_width); strncat (WMStmp, tmpstr, sizeof(WMStmp) - strlen(WMStmp)); ---- Guess what? We already do! -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people w

[Xastir] RTFM

2007-07-02 Thread Curt, WE7U
stalled show up in the Map Chooser? -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- WE7U "The world

Re: [Xastir] Problem with maps

2007-07-02 Thread Curt, WE7U
previous configuration settings, bookmarks, map levels, etc. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -

Re: [Xastir] Problem with maps

2007-07-02 Thread Curt, WE7U
ation number. Enter the number given into the particular Interface->Properties dialog for your internet connection you're wanting to message over. In the "passcode" box. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on p

Re: [Xastir] Problem with maps

2007-07-02 Thread Curt, WE7U
27;t listed in that file, then Map Chooser can't find it. The indexer either couldn't find it, thought it was too old to index (as in the case of running "Add New Maps"), the map support for that type of map wasn't compiled into Xastir, or there was some other error pre

[Xastir] Release Schedule

2007-07-02 Thread Curt, WE7U
, but then we don't have large numbers of developers mucking with the code all the time either so it has worked for us. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft'

[Xastir] [SourceForge.net Release] xastir : xastir-development (fwd)

2007-07-02 Thread Curt, WE7U
Project: XASTIR (xastir) Package: xastir-development Date : 2007-07-02 12:44 Project "XASTIR" ('xastir') has released the new version of package 'xastir-development'. You can download it from SourceForge.net by following this link:

Re: [Xastir] Xastir responding to ?APRSS

2007-07-02 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Curt, WE7U wrote: > When I rework GUI code I try to fix things like the allowed input > box size. A lot of the original code had no such restrictions, it > was just functional. > > I'll see if I can find a few minutes to tweak this one. Done. -- Curt,

Re: [Xastir] Xastir 1.9.1 trail issue

2007-07-02 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Curt, WE7U wrote: > What do you have "New Track Time" and "New Track Interval" set to in > File->Configure->Timing? > > Have Station->Filter Display->Display Trail enabled? > > Are you noticing any other problems like your l

Re: [Xastir] Xastir 1.9.1 trail issue

2007-07-02 Thread Curt, WE7U
ke this to happen. It's common these days for Linux to have something like this in there instead: echo $LANG en_US.UTF-8 Which can easily mess things up. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math.&quo

Re: [Xastir] Xastir 1.9.1 trail issue

2007-07-02 Thread Curt, WE7U
the xterm you start Xastir from. This affects the scanf/sscanf/fscanf functions which Xastir uses from libc, and messes up the configuration file saving/restoring. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unkn

Re: Fwd: Re: [Xastir] Xastir responding to ?APRSS

2007-07-02 Thread Curt, WE7U
). Look at the objects.c:check_and_transmit_objects_items() function. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- WE7U "The world DOE

Re: [Xastir] Xastir responding to ?APRSS

2007-07-02 Thread Curt, WE7U
t other files as well. It's not separated out from the main body of code by any means. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax

Re: [Xastir] Xastir responding to ?APRSS

2007-07-02 Thread Curt, WE7U
otif and so are using Lesstif. I also heard that Fedora is dropping support for OpenMotif over licensing issues? -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax

Re: [Xastir] Problem with maps

2007-07-02 Thread Curt, WE7U
tir will skip indexing that map unless you choose the "Reindex ALL Maps". Not much we can do about that one. We wanted a way to quickly index only the newly added maps, and timestamps is about the only way we can do that. If the timestamps aren't newer, we skip it. -- Curt, WE7U.

Re: [Xastir] Xastir responding to ?APRSS

2007-07-02 Thread Curt, WE7U
the allowed input box size. A lot of the original code had no such restrictions, it was just functional. I'll see if I can find a few minutes to tweak this one. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math.&

Re: [Xastir] Xastir responding to ?APRSS

2007-07-02 Thread Curt, WE7U
t know where to begin for making the > front-end interfaces to add dialog boxes for the > status text, etc. Very few people touch the GUI. I'm probably the main one. I can help here and there if you run into trouble but probably can't spend a great deal of time on it. -- Cu

Re: [Xastir] Xastir responding to ?APRSS

2007-07-02 Thread Curt, WE7U
the fill-in box ever had a label, but it probably was visually associated with the togglebutton at one time when there was more room on the dialog. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown &

Re: [Xastir] maps not working after system reload.

2007-07-02 Thread Curt, WE7U
th radar maps. *) Map levels. *) Turning off automaps. Just little stuff like that... There's probably more I forgot, but we can add them as they come up. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unk

Re: [Xastir] Xastir.desktop, anyone?

2007-07-02 Thread Curt, WE7U
se a *.desktop file? I'm not familiar with it. FWIW I'm using OpenSuSE-10.0 and the FVWM2 window manager. I don't generally start Xastir from menus anyway, preferring to start it from an Xterm or an Rxvt so that I can see any error messages generated. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Cl

Re: [Xastir] Portable Digipeater Antenna?

2007-07-02 Thread Curt, WE7U
as with a dummy load!! That's great! I may have to slip that into some conversations every now and then for fun. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax on

Re: [Xastir] -Lrtree -ltree ... may have found where...

2007-07-02 Thread Curt, WE7U
his that I try to avoid it. A few other obtuse vector map formats are gotten to with the GDAL library in Xastir, but 99% of the users out there will never need them. ./configure --without-gdal make && sudo make install -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.co

Re: [Xastir] CoverSplit symbol issue with rtree in Fedora

2007-07-02 Thread Curt, WE7U
iles is generally a waste of time. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- WE7U "The world DOES rev

Re: [Xastir] CoverSplit symbol issue with rtree in Fedora

2007-06-29 Thread Curt, WE7U
xes your problem we can leave the code as-is, else I might back out the change. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- WE7U &

Re: [Xastir] CoverSplit symbol issue with rtree in Fedora 7 ... may have found the bug

2007-06-29 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Fri, 29 Jun 2007, Curt, WE7U wrote: > It may be hard to find, as in a string inside a compiled library. A google search for "CoverSplit -xastir library" found something in GRASS and of course R-Tree. Perhaps there's a library that GRASS uses that we also may use which has R

Re: [Xastir] CoverSplit symbol issue with rtree in Fedora 7 ... may have found the bug

2007-06-29 Thread Curt, WE7U
plit". It may be hard to find, as in a string inside a compiled library. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- WE7U &

Re: [Xastir] CoverSplit symbol issue with rtree in Fedora 7 ... may have found the bug

2007-06-29 Thread Curt, WE7U
possibility is that there's another symbol with the same name available in another library that is on the link line, something that we don't have any control over. Have we discussed this before? -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A

Re: [Xastir] CoverSplit symbol issue with rtree in Fedora 7 ... may have found the bug

2007-06-29 Thread Curt, WE7U
gue on which widget set. Or if we do it _very_ right, separating the GUI code from everything nicely, we could do Qt _and_ Gtk+, perhaps even adding in WxWidgets as well. The distributed approach to Xastir2 allows us to break up the app into multiple pieces, any of which could be any widget set. O

Re: [Xastir] CoverSplit symbol issue with rtree in Fedora 7 ... may have found the bug

2007-06-29 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Fri, 29 Jun 2007, Curt, WE7U wrote: > On Fri, 29 Jun 2007, Tom Russo wrote: > > > On another note, Fedora is completely dropping OpenMotif because its license > > is considered incompatible with Fedora's, so Fedora users will > > no longer have access so some

Re: [Xastir] CoverSplit symbol issue with rtree in Fedora 7 ... may have found the bug

2007-06-29 Thread Curt, WE7U
's not a trick. Standard Motif programming techniques. You're allowed to change a dialog that's currently displayed and it is supposed to recompute all the widget geometries and redisplay the appropriate thing. Motif does it properly, Lesstif does not. -- Curt, WE7U.

Re: [Xastir] Only seeing posits of path APZ256 | 7

2007-06-29 Thread Curt, WE7U
ok at it to see if I can help diagnose the problem. Keep it down to a few 10's or maybe low 100's of kbytes though please, and send it to my address directly instead of the list. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people

Re: [Xastir] CoverSplit symbol issue with rtree in Fedora 7 ... may have found the bug

2007-06-29 Thread Curt, WE7U
the reported link failure when rtree is enabled > on this (and only this) system. We need the exact error message. Maybe we have that in an earlier e-mail though. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math.&quo

Re: [Xastir] Map formats

2007-06-29 Thread Curt, WE7U
ng a .geo file to go with each one, then letting Xastir have at 'em. We don't support _any_ commercial mapping programs for several good reasons. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown

Re: [Xastir] Radar display

2007-06-28 Thread Curt, WE7U
play machine had different colordepths, so check all three of those. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- WE7U "The world

Re: [Xastir] Only seeing posits of path APZ256 | 7

2007-06-28 Thread Curt, WE7U
iles to see what settings you might want to use for the 2000. Once you figure it out, create a tnc-startup.2000 file with the settings and tell Xastir to use that on startup of that interface. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto:A tax

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