On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 16:30:02 +0100 Yorick Moko <yorickm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> please also sent your patches to Marcus Bauer (the author of TangoGPS) Joshua did already - I am just sitting on a big pile of backlog email. Regards, Marcus > > On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen > <roz...@geekspace.com>wrote: > > > Hi everybody, > > > > I've added a feature to my copy of tangoGPS, and thought that others > > might be interested: it allows the *details* in the map (e.g.: text, > > icons) to be scaled up (to show fewer details, but make the shown > > details bigger) or scaled down (to render the details smaller, but > > show more of them). > > > > This has made tangoGPS *much* more usable for me on my FreeRunner, > > because I can actually read the labels for streets, etc. without > > holding the screen very close to my face :) > > > > (I guess that the OpenStreetMap tiles are rasterised expecting > > something like 96 DPI, but the FreeRunner's display runs at ~280 > > DPI, so text and icons used in OSM tiles is *very* small when > > displayed on the FreeRunner without any upsampling; `zooming the > > details' by 1 level makes everything legible at arm's length, and > > zooming the details by 2 levels makes the text easy to read even at > > a glance while driving). > > > > I've attached 2 separate patches: one patch that adds the `back end' > > of the feature (a new `global_detail_zoom' variable with the > > corresponding gconf hooks, and some minor-changes to the > > tile-loading code), and another patch that adds the front-end GUI > > for the feature (an additional submenu in the map screen, and a > > couple of new callbacks to accompany the new menu-items). > > > > I added the submenu and menu-items manually in interface.c--it looks > > like Marcus is using Glade to maintain the GUI, but I'm not entirely > > sure (I didn't see glade-file in the tarball...); if he still *is* > > using Glade, then it may make more sense to defined these submenus > > via Glade. > > > > -- > > Don't be afraid to ask (Lf.((Lx.xx) (Lr.f(rr)))). > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Openmoko community mailing list > > community@lists.openmoko.org > > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > > > > _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community