[Xastir] Fwd: *.map problems

[Gerry Creager N5JXS]

Areas of 1-2 points are generally illegal.  However, if it's possible to 
tweak the code so that it's an auto-closing polygonal area, that'd make 
a 2-point polygon into, really, a 3-point polygon.  In other words, 
starting with point 1, going to point 2 and back to point 1.  It'd look 
like a line, but that's OK.

A lot of the older DosAPRS maps had 1-2 point polygons, and there was a 
basic script that cleaned these out.

Curt, I don't know if this is practical, but it might be a work-around 
or even a fix...

gerry

Curt Mills, WE7U wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Jul 2003, Tom Robson wrote:
> 
> 
>>Loaded the latest cvs today and all of the reindexing errors have been 
>>resolved, however the:
>>
>>map_plot:Too few points:1, Skipping XFillPolygon()map_plot:Too few points:1,
>>Skipping XFillPolygon()map_plot:Too few points:1, Skipping
>>XFillPolygon()map_plot:Too few points:1, Skipping XFillPolygon()map_plot:Too
>>few points:1, Skipping XFillPolygon()map_plot:Too few points:1, Skipping
>>
>>is still occurring on one map.  Perhaps there is something wrong with it, but 
>>it displays properly
>>
>>It only occurs when the properties, Maps > Properties > Draw filled = Yes 
>>and the Maps > Enable Color Fills > is selected.
>>
>>Not a big issue as I realize there are more pressing things....
> 
> 
> Ok.  I finally got to playing with that map this morning, and your
> properties settings helped me to duplicate the problem.
> 
> Here's what's going on:  In the call to X11 where we are specifying
> polygon fills, we must have three or more points, else there's not
> a polygon to fill, only a line or a point.  For some reason this map
> has been created with areas of one or two points that are resulting
> in our attempting to call the polygon fill function.  The output
> is just telling you that.  It doesn't affect the map drawing except
> that those X11 calls will be skipped.  Anything with 3 or more points
> that's a polygon draw/fill will be called normally.  Lines, points
> and labels will all be drawn normally as well.
> 
> I'll try to take a look at the code to see if for DOS/Win maps we
> are trying to call the polygon draw/fill functions where we
> shouldn't.
> 
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