[Xastir] Dialog window sizes?

[Dexter N Muir]

On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 10:28 -0700, Curt, WE7U wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Aug 2008, Dexter N Muir wrote:
> 
> >   Yep - earlier openMotif (2.23 from Mandriva 2007.1) did the trick.
> > Those windows come up full-window now - much more sightly and
> > convenient.
> >   Now do we suss out why? so newbies like me don't suffer the same
> > fate?  Amend sources to account for differences, or wiki to point to
> > workable sources?
> 
> We've been suffering from problems with IM (somewhat more), GM
> (somewhat less), Motif, and Lesstif for some time, with a few
> problems here and there with wget and libcurl.  Sometimes a few
> other libs but probably not enough to worry about.
> 
> When I think about external libs now I mostly think of problems
> instead of solutions.
> 
> I've been interested for some time in dumping some of our libraries
> and finding alternatives, but not interested enough yet to actually
> start doing it.
> 
> *) IM/GM might be replaced for our purposes with some package that
> could do GIF/JPG/PNG, was in source form, and was GPL'ed.  We could
> add it to our package like we did the Shapelib package.
> 
> Tom will probably break in here and suggest that we not add things
> to our sources like this, but really we've had so much trouble with
> IM/GM that I'm suggesting that replacing them with a known working
> subset is a good thing.  It'd solve a major problem that we have had
> for years:  Unstable image libraries.  There's quite a bit of image
> processing code in Xastir so this would take a while to do.
> 
> *) I've had some trouble with non-working wget in the past, and very
> occasionally with libcurl.  Our code is already isolated pretty well
> here so that we could find a package that did ftp/http fetches and
> integrate it into our code easily.  That would solve another problem
> and would be easy/fast to do.
> 
> *) The last problem is the OpenMotif/Lesstif thing.  These libraries
> are rapidly aging now, everyone else having moved on to the Qtu
> and/or Gtk+ libraries.  Switching our GUI over to one (or both?) of
> these would be a more major task, as there's GUI code through most
> of our source files.
> 
> If we added image processing and ftp/http fetching code to our
> sources, every compile would be capable from then on of working with
> internet maps and local raster or vector (Shapelib) images.  If we
> then went the extra step of getting rid of Motif, we'd potentially
> be able to compile on more platforms, with a lot of work, and would
> bypass some of the widget problems we have fairly often now.
> 

Hi Curt and all...

   Took a dunderhead newbie like me to show these things up :-)

   IM/GM: Is there something that really needs this particular library,
or is it just a convenient all-in-one for component libs - png, tiff,
jpeg etc.  Would a break-down into individual libs be a major headache
or loss?

10 cents'-worth from
ZL2DEX
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Dexter N Muir <dexy at ihug.co.nz>
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