[Xastir] Weather maps are now black

[Gerry Creager]

Catching up after 3 weeks or so of spotty e-mail and just plain too much 
work.  I've gotta fix it as it's now attracted some other attention.  I 
couldn't figure out what was causing the problem, but could confirm that 
there was one.  You're talents allowed coding around it.  Other users 
aren't that good/smart and are really upset sometimes.

I'll report when I get a few results.

Thanks, however, for taking the pressure off me.

gerry

Curt, WE7U wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Jun 2007, Gerry Creager wrote:
> 
>> The real distressing problem here is, we don't change anything and the
>> background changes.  We have a cron-job that always runs the same code
>> the same way, every 2 minutes.  We flog the ???? out of it and the CPU
>> and create several different formats.  The GIF format is the native
>> output.
>>
>> I'll be in Boulder in a month or so, working with the developers and
>> getting some additional training.  I'll get with them and see what they
>> think.
> 
> Another way to handle this problem Gerry is just not to fix it.
> We've coded around it now, so the default transparent colors in the
> WMSRadar.geo file cover the changing background.  If other colors
> appear, we can add yet more transparent values to the .geo.
> 
> --
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