[Xastir] Tracking VK3YT-11

[Curt Mills]

I should mentioned that you can turn on lots of debugging by setting
debug_level on startup, or with  File -> Configure -> Change Debug Level.
The highest level is 4095 I think.

  xastir -v 4095 &

The DEBUG_LEVELS file at the root of the source tree talks about it in more
detail.


On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 7:43 AM, Curt Mills <curt.we7u at gmail.com> wrote:

> Start Xastir from an Xterm. Most error messages will show up in that xterm
> and might lead you to the problem.
>
> You can turn on/off screenshots and Xastir will try to take a snapshot. Do
> another on/off cycle and it will try again. More than likely you're missing
> some library that Xastir needs to do the snapshot or to convert it to png.
> Snapshots are working on my systems. My major list of libs (from
> Help->About):
>
>   AX25 Festival GPSMan GraphicsMagick libProj GeoTiff ShapeLib PCRE Dbfawk
> map_caching rtree libcurl
>
> However, many of those use additional libraries which aren't listed there.
>
> Looking in src/maps.c I see "snapshot_thread" which has this comment:
>
> // Create png image (for use in web browsers??).  Requires that "convert"
> // from the ImageMagick package be installed on the system.  At the
> // point this thread is started, the XPM file has already been
> // created.  We now create a .geo file to go with the .png file.
>
> snapshot_thread() is started from Snapshot(), in the same file. The XPM
> file is created from XpmWriteFileFromPixmap() in Snapshot(), prior to
> starting snapshot_thread().
>
> I've got these "Magick" RPM's installed:
>
> $ rpm -qa | grep -i magick
> GraphicsMagick-1.3.21-76.1.x86_64
> libGraphicsMagick3-config-1.3.21-76.1.x86_64
> libGraphicsMagick3-1.3.17-2.4.1.x86_64
> libGraphicsMagickWand-Q16-2-1.3.21-76.1.x86_64
> GraphicsMagick-devel-1.3.21-76.1.x86_64
> libGraphicsMagick-Q16-3-1.3.21-76.1.x86_64
> libMagickWand5-6.7.8.8-4.21.1.x86_64
> ImageMagick-6.7.8.8-4.21.1.x86_64
> libMagickCore5-6.7.8.8-4.21.1.x86_64
>
> and these containing "xpm":
>
> $ rpm -qa | grep -i xpm
> libXpm-devel-3.5.10-4.1.1.x86_64
> libXpm4-32bit-3.5.10-4.1.1.x86_64
> libXpm4-3.5.10-4.1.1.x86_64
> libXpm-tools-3.5.10-4.1.1.x86_64
>
> I hope that helps.
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 2:11 PM, Liz <edodd at billiau.net> wrote:
>
>> Screenshot of Xastir showing tracking of latest balloon launch by Andy.
>> https://flic.kr/p/CGDKuB
>>
>> My config is set to png snapshot, but the ~/.xastir/tmp/ directory was
>> empty.
>>
>> Liz
>> VK2XSE
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>
>
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