[Xastir] XASTIR not picking up maps

[Tom Russo]

On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 10:02:44AM +1000, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <vk4tec at tech-software.net> flavor, containing:
> Spot on Tom, I am converting the .jpg files to .xpm and they are working
> 
> I am using "convert" xxx.jpg to xxx.xpm
> 
> I have Imagemagik, but XASTIR does not seem to want to use it ????
> 
> Do you have to do anything special to allow XASTIR to use ImageMagick ?

It has to be a version that xastir can grok.  It should pick it up in configure
if it is.

The ImageMagick folks have a tendancy to break their API now and then.  That
could be what's going on.  

Look in your config.log file and see what kind of error messages are 
coming through when the configure script.  It might give you a clue where
the incompatibility is.

What version of ImageMagick are you using?
 
> On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 09:46, Tom Russo wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 09:14:13AM +1000, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <vk4tec at tech-software.net> flavor, containing:
> > > On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 08:07, vk4tec wrote:
> > > 
> > > Whats does this mean ?
> > > 
> > > Built-in map types:
> > >       gnis   USGS GNIS Datapoints
> > >        map   APRSdos Maps
> > >        map   WinAPRS/MacAPRS/X-APRS Maps
> > >        pdb   PocketAPRS Maps
> > > 
> > > Support for these additional map types has been compiled in:
> > >        geo   URL (Internet maps via libcurl library)
> > >        xpm   X Pixmap Maps (XPM library)
> > > ERROR loading /usr/local/share/xastir/maps/00.jpg
> > > ERROR loading /usr/local/share/xastir/maps/01.jpg
> > > ERROR loading /usr/local/share/xastir/maps/02.jpg
> > > ERROR loading /usr/local/share/xastir/maps/03.jpg
> > > ERROR loading /usr/local/share/xastir/maps/10.jpg
> > > ERROR loading /usr/local/share/xastir/maps/11.jpg
> > > ERROR loading /usr/local/share/xastir/maps/12.jpg
> > > ERROR loading /usr/local/share/xastir/maps/13.jpg
> > > ERROR loading /usr/local/share/xastir/maps/20.jpg
> > > ERROR loading /usr/local/share/xastir/maps/21.jpg
> > > Map Refresh set to 720.
> > > ERROR loading /usr/local/share/xastir/maps/Online/TXRadar.geo
> > > ERROR loading /usr/local/share/xastir/maps/Online/USRadar.geo
> > 
> > The .geo code in map_geo prints out this message when it attempts to 
> > use the "XpmReadFileToImage" call --- which is only supposed to be used to
> > read in xpm (X PixMap) files.
> > 
> > For whatever reason your xastir does not have support for jpg or any other
> > raster map compiled in, and the code is trying to load them as if they're
> > xpm files.
> > 
> > To use xastir with jpg or PNG files (such as the ones you're going to get
> > from USRadar.geo), you need to have ImageMagick working.  Do you?

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