[Xastir] Better and/or Easier Way to Get Xastir on Windows

[Gerry Creager]

I'll look today for a freely distributable world map, probably shapefile 
format.  Will that satisfy anyone?  That much I should be able to 
accomplish.

gerry

Dan Brown wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, Curt Mills wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, Tom Russo wrote:
>>
>>> Maybe there was a particular reason for using such tiny default values?  Curt?
>>> If there isn't a real reason to make the default value so small, perhaps we
>>> should go back to the 640x480 that was the default before then?
>> Yes.  Specific reasons for it, and I'm the responsible party.
>> Aren't CVS logs great?
>>
>> It went like this:  Tried resizing the window vertically as small as
>> it would go.  Xastir segfaulted.   Figured out I could set the
>> minimum window sizes to have at least one pixel in the drawing area,
>> which would keep it from segfaulting.  The end result is what you
>> see now.  A side effect is that the first time it starts up small,
>> but I didn't see that at the time.  We could perhaps fix that
>> first-time startup size if we have to set sizes in xa_config.c 'cuz
>> they're missing in the config file.
> 
> I'll take this moment to put forward the idea that I think putting
> something minimal up, besides the grey background, even if it isn't
> anything but a splash screen with an Xastir logo and an arrow pointing
> generally towards the File->Configure menu, would be good.  I think some
> sort of world map might be better, but I know there are valid questions
> about where to get something freely available and redistributable.  I just
> think that having something there, out of the box, would at least say
> "Xastir is working!" to new users. 
> 
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