[Xastir] Window Sizing and Shortcuts

[Jason Rausch]

Tom,

Thanks for the step by step!  I was able to get everything configured, compiled and installed.  However, I don't see much of a difference other than the tray item at the bottom have been moved to the left and stack in two rows.  I tried opening the Interface Menu and then looking at the config of my USB TNC port and I still have the problem with the buttons being off of the bottom of the screen.  Should I have seen a difference with this or am I asking for too much change over?
 
Jason Rausch - Amateur Radio Callsign: KE4NYV
RPC Electronics, LLC
www.rpc-electronics.com


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 From: Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org>
To: Jason Rausch <jason at ke4nyv.com>; Xastir - APRS client software discussion <xastir at lists.xastir.org> 
Cc: "Curt, WE7U" <curt.we7u at gmail.com> 
Sent: Wednesday, July 2, 2014 9:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Xastir] Window Sizing and Shortcuts
 

On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 06:18:41PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <jason at ke4nyv.com> flavor, containing:
> Curt,
> 
> The resolution is 800x480. Can I recompile the version I have installed? ?The install was automated, so I have no idea if I can work with that or start over.

If I recall correctly, your install was done by running the script at
http://www.175moonlight.com/xastir/raspbian-xastir-cvsbuild.sh
with minor modifications.  If so, all that "automation" was really just
running what most of us do by hand on other systems.

The script installs all the packages Xastir depends on, then downloads the
CVS version of Xastir and builds it.  To do what Curt's suggesting means 
skipping right to the last step after hacking the source --- you don't need to 
re-run the script, since you already have all the prerequisites.

All you need to do to rebuild Xastir with that option is to do the following:

- cd ~/src/xastir/src
- cd ~/src/xastir/build
- ../configure CPPFLAGS="-DLCD640x480TOUCH"
  This is the same as if you had edited main.c and uncommented an ifdef that
  Curt mentioned, but is a lot simpler than editing code.
- make clean && make && sudo make install

Then, launch Xastir as before, but change font sizes so that everything looks
OK for you.  While the "ifdef" has 640x480 in its name, there is nothing 
that actually uses the 640x480 size in the code --- it's just a shorthand for
the specific use case Curt was experimenting with when he inserted this code.

Ideally, selecting these options should be done in the "configure" script with
an "--enable-touchscreen" option or something rather than by forcing CPPFLAGS 
or hand-editing code, but nobody has set it up that way.

HTH,

T.
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