[Xastir] Maps, Defaults, and Chooser

[Tom Russo]

On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 03:34:06PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <n1mie at ct.metrocast.net> flavor, containing:
> 
> Incidentally I find the radars almost completely unusable since they  
> are completely black now. At times they work, but they break too  
> often. 

Agreed.  The WMSRadar is the only one I use.  Its transparency value has changed
yet again, and appears to be 0x000000 for the moment, after months of being
0x010101.  The instability of that transparent value makes this an unpredictable
map to use.

I noticed that a recent commit changed the transparent value of the USRadar 
map --- it's been a long time since I used that map, and when I tried today
it's not working anymore --- I get a "must specify image size" error.

> I've been here enough to have heard all the discussions of  
> color levels, transparency, and et cetera. It'd be nice to get a more  
> permanent solution to this problem. 

That solution has to come from the source of the images, and is not something
xastir can fix except on a band-aid basis.

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