[Xastir] dbfawk files on OSX

[Luc Doré VA2KSH]

Hi Tom and to the rest of the list,

Interesting, very intersting as the saying goes.  Thanks for showing me 
the testawk command, I didn't even know it existed.  Well, the output 
of testawk shows name, key, symbol, color, lanes, filled, 
pattern=-1073742784 (for every row), display_level, font_size and 
label_level but not a single line has label_color.

with the dbfawk file sent earlier.

Luc D. -- VA2KSH
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On Mar 20, 2005, at 08:10, Tom Russo wrote:
> Ok, that narrows it down a lot.
>
> Please try running "testawk" (it's created in the src directory when 
> you build
> xastir, but not installed into /usr/local/bin when you type "make 
> install").
>
>    testawk -D <directory containing your dbfawk file> -d <your dbf 
> file>
>
> Testawk should tell you that the dbf signature in the dbfawk file 
> matches
> your dbf file, and should show what dbfawk is doing for each record in 
> the
> dbf file.
>
> If testawk shows that your dbfawk file is doing the right thing to 
> each record
> then you can move on to figuring out why xastir isn't changing the 
> colors of
> the labels.  Try running xastir with debug level 16 and displaying 
> just your
> one map (if you display more than that there's too much output).  You 
> should
> see output that says "dbfawk parse of structure" followed by a bunch of
> variable assignments.  If the label_color variable is *still* correct, 
> but the
> display shows black labels, then I dunno what's up --- I use 
> label_color
> to set label colors all the time and at least in my cases the thing 
> works.
> We'll have to dig deeper if you get to this point and still can't get 
> the
> color working.
>
> -- 
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