[Xastir] 403 on USRadar.geo page?

[Curt Mills]

On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Tom Russo wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 10:47:32PM -0600, a Mr. Richard Feyler of Fort Lee, New Jersey <gerry.creager at tamu.edu> writes 'Dear Rosanne Rosannadanna':
> [...]
> > NEW USrad.geo.  Note that the URL has changed.  Please let me know if
> > problems are encountered as I'm about to tell the whole APRS world about
> > it.  If cutting/pasting from the body here, you might have to reassemble
> > some long lines.
> >
> > 73, gerry n5jxs
> > -----
> > #US Composite Radar image (Unidata/LDM/Gempak) n5jxs 2003 08 25
> [...]
> > # The following should work for all color maps, now.
> > TRANSPARENT 0x0ffffffff
>
> FYI, on my 16-bit display, this doesn't make the background
> transparent, it was a light grey that covered everything..  I needed
> to use 0x0ffff.

Are you running a very recent CVS version of Xastir?  If not,
upgrade and try the full 32-bit tranparency value.  There were code
changes that made it work properly.

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