Re: [Xastir] Snapshot problems

[happyexi]

Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 14:12:02 -0800 (PST)
From: "Curt, WE7U" 
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On Sun, 9 Dec 2012, happyexi wrote:

> Snapshot problems : is there a way to take usable snapshot while using
> offline map (former snapshot of maps used as jpg?)
> I added a snapshot taken with offline maps, and the result is that i get
> an error can not convert to snapshot.xpm to snapshot.png.. as you can
> see in the file, it is distorted and not usable. The map is render
> un-reconaisebele.
As I recall there should be no difference whether you're using online or
offline maps, as far as the snapshots go.  If it's broken for one, it
should be broken for all.

The code is in src/maps.c:Snapshot(), and it uses the
XpmWriteFileFromPixmap() function call.  It also puts snapshot_thread()
into a new thread.  At top of that latter function are these comments:

// 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.

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New post 04Jan2013 *

Hi, the snapshot works for shape files, it is just when using the
offline snapshot files as maps it fails.

The erroro that xastir gives is as following:
'
/usr/bin/gm convert: Improper image header
(/home/USER/.xastir/tmp/snapshot.xpm).
System call return error: convert: /home/USER/.xastir/tmp/snapshot.xpm
-> /home/USER/.xastir/tmp/snapshot.png
'
it seams to have too do with the fact that it dossn`t manage to make a
correct xpm file.. the files is there but it is as mention "broken".

I use the following "image shaper for my maps" (for lack of better wording.)

media-gfx/graphicsmagick
 Installed versions:  1.3.16-r1(18:50:53 01/04/13)(X bzip2 cxx fpx
jbig jpeg jpeg2k lcms modules openmp perl png q16 svg threads tiff
truetype wmf zlib -debug -imagemagick -lzma -postscript -q32 -static-libs

Testing I been testing this from xastir version 2.0.0.0 to 2.0.0.5
result is consistent, it do snapshot of shape files with out problem,
but as soon as I use old snapshot in my map directory and uses this as
map. (yes the map work flawless) I get a broken snapshot, I can take
snapshot using 'import' and grab the xastir window to a file. [but there
is many reason not to do this.. the main one, is that it will give black
screen-shot if screen-saver is on or a window is hiding the windows I am
grabbing...]

if you wounder usefalg for xastir = 'festival gdal geotiff graphicsmagick'

but during testing I been compiling it form source to get a real test.

if it helps I can send you mapfile and example of the broken and
unbroken file.

73 happyexi
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Re: [Xastir] Snapshot problems

[Curt, WE7U]

On Sun, 9 Dec 2012, happyexi wrote:


Snapshot problems : is there a way to take usable snapshot while using
offline map (former snapshot of maps used as jpg?)
I added a snapshot taken with offline maps, and the result is that i get
an error can not convert to snapshot.xpm to snapshot.png.. as you can
see in the file, it is distorted and not usable. The map is render
un-reconaisebele.


As I recall there should be no difference whether you're using online or 
offline maps, as far as the snapshots go.  If it's broken for one, it should be 
broken for all.

The code is in src/maps.c:Snapshot(), and it uses the XpmWriteFileFromPixmap() 
function call.  It also puts snapshot_thread() into a new thread.  At top of 
that latter function are these comments:

// 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.

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[Xastir] Snapshot problems

[happyexi]

Snapshot problems : is there a way to take usable snapshot while using
offline map (former snapshot of maps used as jpg?)
I added a snapshot taken with offline maps, and the result is that i get
an error can not convert to snapshot.xpm to snapshot.png.. as you can
see in the file, it is distorted and not usable. The map is render
un-reconaisebele.

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Re: [Xastir] Snapshot problems

[Lee Bengston]

On 1/19/10, Kevin Ratcliff  wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Lee Bengston 
> wrote:
>> When Ubuntu 9.04 came out, I tried compiling without xorg-dev, and it
>> worked again.  Although I didn't write the HowTo for Ubuntu 9.04, I
>> mentioned the ability to compile without xorg-dev to Kevin R., who did
>> write it, and I believe he (and later several others following the
>> same HowTo) installed without xorg-dev and did not experience
>> difficulty.  In hindsight snapshots probably didn't work - shows how
>> often a bunch of us actually use that feature.  Because xorg-dev had
>> broken KDE 4 in another distribution, and I hadn't tried Kubuntu 9.04
>> yet, I thought it best to leave out xorg-dev in the 9.04 HowTo given
>> things seemed to work without it.
>
> I have not followed all of the mailing list threads lately, but that's
> my recollection as well. It looks like xorg-dev was in the original
> Ubuntu 9.04 HowTo when I posted it, but I took it out after feedback
> on the mailing list that indicated it wasn't needed. Here's the two
> versions:
>
> http://www.xastir.org/wiki/index.php?title=HowTo:Ubuntu_9.04&diff=3129&oldid=3120
>
> Sorry about that, I didn't omitting it was causing an issue. I guess I
> never use the snapshot feature!

No apology required - I'm the one who provided the feedback that
resulted in the omission of that package.  When I get a chance I will
provide updated iso images of Kubuntu 9.10 and Ubuntu 9.10 that will
contain an updated Xastir with snapshots working.

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Re: [Xastir] Snapshot problems

[Kevin Ratcliff]

On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Lee Bengston  wrote:
> When Ubuntu 9.04 came out, I tried compiling without xorg-dev, and it
> worked again.  Although I didn't write the HowTo for Ubuntu 9.04, I
> mentioned the ability to compile without xorg-dev to Kevin R., who did
> write it, and I believe he (and later several others following the
> same HowTo) installed without xorg-dev and did not experience
> difficulty.  In hindsight snapshots probably didn't work - shows how
> often a bunch of us actually use that feature.  Because xorg-dev had
> broken KDE 4 in another distribution, and I hadn't tried Kubuntu 9.04
> yet, I thought it best to leave out xorg-dev in the 9.04 HowTo given
> things seemed to work without it.

I have not followed all of the mailing list threads lately, but that's
my recollection as well. It looks like xorg-dev was in the original
Ubuntu 9.04 HowTo when I posted it, but I took it out after feedback
on the mailing list that indicated it wasn't needed. Here's the two
versions:

http://www.xastir.org/wiki/index.php?title=HowTo:Ubuntu_9.04&diff=3129&oldid=3120

Sorry about that, I didn't omitting it was causing an issue. I guess I
never use the snapshot feature!

> After compiling Xastir without xorg-dev today in the new Kubuntu 9.10
> VM, I then added xorg-dev and recompiled.  It didn't harm KDE 4, and
> snapshots worked.  So we're definitely good to go with xorg-dev back
> in the wiki.

Thanks Lee and Tom for figuring this out, and for updating the wiki
instructions!

Kevin
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Re: [Xastir] Snapshot problems

[Mike]

Lee,

This method worked and I will be keeping it for future reference. Thank 
you for the help and to everyone else out there that replied thanks.


Mike, W2SWR


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Lee Bengston wrote:

Mike,

It sounds like the kubuntu iso I distributed.  I duplicated the
problem and fixed it by installing libxpm-dev and rebuilding Xastir.
(Thanks, Curt, for identifying libxpm)  Assuming you are using an
installation that came from the Kubuntu image that I posted, here is
how I got snapshots to work:

  sudo apt-get install libxpm-dev

  cp -r /home/a-user/src ~/

  cd ~/src/xastir

  ./configure

  make

  sudo make install

Not surprisingly, the same issue is present with either the ubuntu or
kubuntu images.

Although I did back out OpenOffice in order to make room for Xastir
and its dependencies, I don't think I removed libxpm-dev.  It appears
that libxpm-dev needs to be added as a package to be installed in the
HowTo for Ubuntu 9.04/9.10 in the wiki

Regards,

Lee - K5DAT
Murphy, TX

On 1/16/10, Mike  wrote:
  

Hi Curt,

The Xastir & Kubuntu were both packaged together in a disk image, I
don't have the dev headers but I will give them a try. I will also check
out whether or not  it was w/ or w/o libxpm suooprt.

tnx,
de Mike, W2SWR

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Curt, WE7U wrote:


On Thu, 14 Jan 2010, Mike wrote:

  

Yes they're there


Meaning the libXpm shared libraries and development headers?

Did you compile Xastir from sources after those were installed?  If
you're running a pre-compiled Xastir binary, perhaps it was compiled
w/o support for libXpm?

  

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Re: [Xastir] Snapshot problems

[Lee Bengston]

On 1/17/10, Tom Russo  wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 10:57:08AM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron
> collision of the  flavor, containing:
>> On 1/17/10, Tom Russo  wrote:
>>
>> > Until last week, the 9.04 page had broken instructions and did not even
>> > include xorg-dev.  But leaving that out makes xastir uncompilable, so I
>> > don't think that's the issue --- you must have installed that one even
>> > though
>> > it was missing from the wiki instructions.  But it's one of:
>> >
>> > xorg-dev libmotif-dev graphicsmagick gv libxp-dev
>> >
>> > that's getting things installed on 9.10, at any rate.
>>
>> Actually the lack of xorg-dev in the instructions was the issue.  I
>> have installed Xastir in both 9.04 and 9.10 using the previous
>> installation notes version that did not include xorg-dev, and it still
>> compiled. That's how the remastered iso images were done as well.
>> Although Xastir still compiles, it is compiled without libxpm-dev,
>> which I assume gets installed as a dependency of xorg-dev.
>
> Bizarre.
>
> When I tried to build on 9.10 with the 9.04 instructions that lacked
> xorg-dev,
> Xastir wouldn't even compile (X11.h wasn't installed).
>
> xorg-dev appeared in all previous versions of the Ubnutu instructions, so I
> assumed it was an accidental omission.  9.04's dependencies must have pulled
> pieces of it in that 9.10's didn't.  Odd.
>
> At any rate, xorg-dev should be listed, regardless, and has been for a few
> days.

It's coming back to me now.  Either prior to or about the same time
that Ubuntu 9.04 came out, I was working on compiling Xastir on a new
Mandriva version - the first one with KDE 4, and when I installed
Mandriva's equivalent to xorg-dev (xorg-devel, I think), it orphaned a
bunch of libraries and completely broke the KDE desktop.  I ended up
trying to compile Xastir without it, however, and it worked.

When Ubuntu 9.04 came out, I tried compiling without xorg-dev, and it
worked again.  Although I didn't write the HowTo for Ubuntu 9.04, I
mentioned the ability to compile without xorg-dev to Kevin R., who did
write it, and I believe he (and later several others following the
same HowTo) installed without xorg-dev and did not experience
difficulty.  In hindsight snapshots probably didn't work - shows how
often a bunch of us actually use that feature.  Because xorg-dev had
broken KDE 4 in another distribution, and I hadn't tried Kubuntu 9.04
yet, I thought it best to leave out xorg-dev in the 9.04 HowTo given
things seemed to work without it.

I've continued to be able to compile in Ubuntu 9.10 without xorg-dev.
I built a new VM today with Kubuntu 9.10 just to be sure, and once
again, it worked.  I suspect the reason 9.10 failed without xorg-dev
for you is due to the substitution of GraphicsMagick for ImageMagick.
The two packages that appear to grab many of the same packages that
are dependencies of xorg-dev are libxp-dev and libmagickcore-dev.  I'm
guessing that the dev package for GraphicsMagick doesn't pick up at
least one key package that the dev for ImageMagick does.

After compiling Xastir without xorg-dev today in the new Kubuntu 9.10
VM, I then added xorg-dev and recompiled.  It didn't harm KDE 4, and
snapshots worked.  So we're definitely good to go with xorg-dev back
in the wiki.

Thanks,
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[Tom Russo]

On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 10:57:08AM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron 
collision of the  flavor, containing:
> On 1/17/10, Tom Russo  wrote:
> 
> > Until last week, the 9.04 page had broken instructions and did not even
> > include xorg-dev.  But leaving that out makes xastir uncompilable, so I
> > don't think that's the issue --- you must have installed that one even 
> > though
> > it was missing from the wiki instructions.  But it's one of:
> >
> > xorg-dev libmotif-dev graphicsmagick gv libxp-dev
> >
> > that's getting things installed on 9.10, at any rate.
> 
> Actually the lack of xorg-dev in the instructions was the issue.  I
> have installed Xastir in both 9.04 and 9.10 using the previous
> installation notes version that did not include xorg-dev, and it still
> compiled. That's how the remastered iso images were done as well.
> Although Xastir still compiles, it is compiled without libxpm-dev,
> which I assume gets installed as a dependency of xorg-dev.

Bizarre.

When I tried to build on 9.10 with the 9.04 instructions that lacked xorg-dev,
Xastir wouldn't even compile (X11.h wasn't installed).

xorg-dev appeared in all previous versions of the Ubnutu instructions, so I 
assumed it was an accidental omission.  9.04's dependencies must have pulled
pieces of it in that 9.10's didn't.  Odd.

At any rate, xorg-dev should be listed, regardless, and has been for a few
days.

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Re: [Xastir] Snapshot problems

[Lee Bengston]

On 1/17/10, Tom Russo  wrote:

> Until last week, the 9.04 page had broken instructions and did not even
> include xorg-dev.  But leaving that out makes xastir uncompilable, so I
> don't think that's the issue --- you must have installed that one even though
> it was missing from the wiki instructions.  But it's one of:
>
> xorg-dev libmotif-dev graphicsmagick gv libxp-dev
>
> that's getting things installed on 9.10, at any rate.

Actually the lack of xorg-dev in the instructions was the issue.  I
have installed Xastir in both 9.04 and 9.10 using the previous
installation notes version that did not include xorg-dev, and it still
compiled. That's how the remastered iso images were done as well.
Although Xastir still compiles, it is compiled without libxpm-dev,
which I assume gets installed as a dependency of xorg-dev.

Regards,

Lee - K5DAT
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On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 11:51:39PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron 
collision of the  flavor, containing:
> 
> Although I did back out OpenOffice in order to make room for Xastir
> and its dependencies, I don't think I removed libxpm-dev.  It appears
> that libxpm-dev needs to be added as a package to be installed in the
> HowTo for Ubuntu 9.04/9.10 in the wiki

I have done two Ubuntu 9.10 virtual machines in the last week using exactly
the procedure in the current Xastir wiki page (regular desktop and Ubuntu
Netbook Remix) -- I literally cut-and-pasted the apt-get install lines from
the wiki into the shell and got a functional Xastir.  Both attempts installed 
libxpm-dev as one of the dependencies from the first apt-get install line. I 
have not tried 9.04 --- it's possible that there's a broken dependency 
somewhere.  So at least for 9.10, there is no need to change the wiki 
instructions.

Until last week, the 9.04 page had broken instructions and did not even include
xorg-dev.  But leaving that out makes xastir uncompilable, so I don't think
that's the issue --- you must have installed that one even though it was missing
from the wiki instructions.  But it's one of:

xorg-dev libmotif-dev graphicsmagick gv libxp-dev

that's getting things installed on 9.10, at any rate.

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Re: [Xastir] Snapshot problems

[Mike]

Thanks Lee,

I will try that when I get back to it on Monday or Tuesday. Right now I 
am traveling. The distro of Kubuntu9.10/Xastir 1.9.7 (2009-12-05) was 
from the Xastirwiki site


Thanks again



Lee Bengston wrote:

Mike,

It sounds like the kubuntu iso I distributed.  I duplicated the
problem and fixed it by installing libxpm-dev and rebuilding Xastir.
(Thanks, Curt, for identifying libxpm)  Assuming you are using an
installation that came from the Kubuntu image that I posted, here is
how I got snapshots to work:

  sudo apt-get install libxpm-dev

  cp -r /home/a-user/src ~/

  cd ~/src/xastir

  ./configure

  make

  sudo make install

Not surprisingly, the same issue is present with either the ubuntu or
kubuntu images.

Although I did back out OpenOffice in order to make room for Xastir
and its dependencies, I don't think I removed libxpm-dev.  It appears
that libxpm-dev needs to be added as a package to be installed in the
HowTo for Ubuntu 9.04/9.10 in the wiki

Regards,

Lee - K5DAT
Murphy, TX

On 1/16/10, Mike  wrote:
  

Hi Curt,

The Xastir & Kubuntu were both packaged together in a disk image, I
don't have the dev headers but I will give them a try. I will also check
out whether or not  it was w/ or w/o libxpm suooprt.

tnx,
de Mike, W2SWR

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Curt, WE7U wrote:


On Thu, 14 Jan 2010, Mike wrote:

  

Yes they're there


Meaning the libXpm shared libraries and development headers?

Did you compile Xastir from sources after those were installed?  If
you're running a pre-compiled Xastir binary, perhaps it was compiled
w/o support for libXpm?

  

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[Lee Bengston]

Mike,

It sounds like the kubuntu iso I distributed.  I duplicated the
problem and fixed it by installing libxpm-dev and rebuilding Xastir.
(Thanks, Curt, for identifying libxpm)  Assuming you are using an
installation that came from the Kubuntu image that I posted, here is
how I got snapshots to work:

  sudo apt-get install libxpm-dev

  cp -r /home/a-user/src ~/

  cd ~/src/xastir

  ./configure

  make

  sudo make install

Not surprisingly, the same issue is present with either the ubuntu or
kubuntu images.

Although I did back out OpenOffice in order to make room for Xastir
and its dependencies, I don't think I removed libxpm-dev.  It appears
that libxpm-dev needs to be added as a package to be installed in the
HowTo for Ubuntu 9.04/9.10 in the wiki

Regards,

Lee - K5DAT
Murphy, TX

On 1/16/10, Mike  wrote:
> Hi Curt,
>
> The Xastir & Kubuntu were both packaged together in a disk image, I
> don't have the dev headers but I will give them a try. I will also check
> out whether or not  it was w/ or w/o libxpm suooprt.
>
> tnx,
> de Mike, W2SWR
>
> --
>
>
> Curt, WE7U wrote:
>> On Thu, 14 Jan 2010, Mike wrote:
>>
>>> Yes they're there
>>
>> Meaning the libXpm shared libraries and development headers?
>>
>> Did you compile Xastir from sources after those were installed?  If
>> you're running a pre-compiled Xastir binary, perhaps it was compiled
>> w/o support for libXpm?
>>
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Re: [Xastir] Snapshot problems

[Mike]

Hi Curt,

The Xastir & Kubuntu were both packaged together in a disk image, I 
don't have the dev headers but I will give them a try. I will also check 
out whether or not  it was w/ or w/o libxpm suooprt.


tnx,
de Mike, W2SWR

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Curt, WE7U wrote:

On Thu, 14 Jan 2010, Mike wrote:


Yes they're there


Meaning the libXpm shared libraries and development headers?

Did you compile Xastir from sources after those were installed?  If
you're running a pre-compiled Xastir binary, perhaps it was compiled
w/o support for libXpm?



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Re: [Xastir] Snapshot problems

[Curt, WE7U]

On Thu, 14 Jan 2010, Mike wrote:


Yes they're there


Meaning the libXpm shared libraries and development headers?

Did you compile Xastir from sources after those were installed?  If
you're running a pre-compiled Xastir binary, perhaps it was compiled
w/o support for libXpm?

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Re: [Xastir] Snapshot problems

[Mike]

Yes they're there

thanks

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Curt, WE7U wrote:

On Wed, 13 Jan 2010, Mike wrote:

Im new to Xastir and trying it out. Is there currently a problem with 
the Snapshot.png module? I looking for some help. I cant get the 
thing to work. Nothing shows up in ~/.xastir/tmp/  at all. I am 
running rev 1.9.7 on a P4, 1.3 GHz with Kubuntu. I verified that the 
ImageMagick module is installed and operating by running the convert 
command in a shell. Tried different maps as well as toggling the 
snapshot.png module on/off several times. can anyone help?


It works.  Make sure you have libXpm installed as it uses that to
create the initial snapshot.xpm, then uses GM or IM to convert it to
a PNG.

On my 64-bit OpenSuSE-11.1 system here I have these installed:

xorg-x11-libXpm-7.4-1.30
xorg-x11-libXpm-devel-7.4-1.30
xorg-x11-libXpm-32bit-7.4-1.27


P.S. the alarms are not working either. I installed the wav files in 
the sound folder and verified matching file names. This problem is 
not a priority to me but just in case its related.


Unfortunately there is no particular sound player that comes with
every Linux distribution, not to mention OSX, Solaris, Cygwin, etc.
You'll have to fine-tune the command-line there to fit whatever it
is that works on your system.  On my home system I use:

/usr/bin/aplay -q

Try out various players and command-line switches on the command
line until you can play a sound file, then put that command into
Xastir in the File->Configure->Audio Alarms dialog.



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Re: [Xastir] Snapshot problems

[Mike]

Audio problem solved. Sox was missing.  Snapshot problem still happening 
thanks




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Lee Bengston wrote:

On 1/13/10, Mike  wrote:
  

Hi all,

Im new to Xastir and trying it out. Is there currently a problem with
the Snapshot.png module? I looking for some help. I cant get the thing
to work. Nothing shows up in ~/.xastir/tmp/  at all. I am running rev
1.9.7 on a P4, 1.3 GHz with Kubuntu. I verified that the ImageMagick
module is installed and operating by running the convert command in a
shell. Tried different maps as well as toggling the snapshot.png module
on/off several times. can anyone help?

P.S. the alarms are not working either. I installed the wav files in the
sound folder and verified matching file names. This problem is not a
priority to me but just in case its related.



I'm not sure what is going on with the snapshots, but I have found
that there is an app called sox that uses the "play" command that is
entered into Xastir by default.

apt-get install sox

Try that and see if the sound files play.  It worked for me in
Eeebuntu 3.0, which is Ubuntu 9.04 based.

Lee - K5DAT
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Re: [Xastir] Snapshot problems

[Curt, WE7U]

On Wed, 13 Jan 2010, Mike wrote:

Im new to Xastir and trying it out. Is there currently a problem with the 
Snapshot.png module? I looking for some help. I cant get the thing to work. 
Nothing shows up in ~/.xastir/tmp/  at all. I am running rev 1.9.7 on a P4, 
1.3 GHz with Kubuntu. I verified that the ImageMagick module is installed and 
operating by running the convert command in a shell. Tried different maps as 
well as toggling the snapshot.png module on/off several times. can anyone 
help?


It works.  Make sure you have libXpm installed as it uses that to
create the initial snapshot.xpm, then uses GM or IM to convert it to
a PNG.

On my 64-bit OpenSuSE-11.1 system here I have these installed:

xorg-x11-libXpm-7.4-1.30
xorg-x11-libXpm-devel-7.4-1.30
xorg-x11-libXpm-32bit-7.4-1.27


P.S. the alarms are not working either. I installed the wav files in the 
sound folder and verified matching file names. This problem is not a priority 
to me but just in case its related.


Unfortunately there is no particular sound player that comes with
every Linux distribution, not to mention OSX, Solaris, Cygwin, etc.
You'll have to fine-tune the command-line there to fit whatever it
is that works on your system.  On my home system I use:

/usr/bin/aplay -q

Try out various players and command-line switches on the command
line until you can play a sound file, then put that command into
Xastir in the File->Configure->Audio Alarms dialog.

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Re: [Xastir] Snapshot problems

[Lee Bengston]

On 1/13/10, Mike  wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Im new to Xastir and trying it out. Is there currently a problem with
> the Snapshot.png module? I looking for some help. I cant get the thing
> to work. Nothing shows up in ~/.xastir/tmp/  at all. I am running rev
> 1.9.7 on a P4, 1.3 GHz with Kubuntu. I verified that the ImageMagick
> module is installed and operating by running the convert command in a
> shell. Tried different maps as well as toggling the snapshot.png module
> on/off several times. can anyone help?
>
> P.S. the alarms are not working either. I installed the wav files in the
> sound folder and verified matching file names. This problem is not a
> priority to me but just in case its related.

I'm not sure what is going on with the snapshots, but I have found
that there is an app called sox that uses the "play" command that is
entered into Xastir by default.

apt-get install sox

Try that and see if the sound files play.  It worked for me in
Eeebuntu 3.0, which is Ubuntu 9.04 based.

Lee - K5DAT
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[Xastir] Snapshot problems

[Mike]

Hi all,

Im new to Xastir and trying it out. Is there currently a problem with 
the Snapshot.png module? I looking for some help. I cant get the thing 
to work. Nothing shows up in ~/.xastir/tmp/  at all. I am running rev 
1.9.7 on a P4, 1.3 GHz with Kubuntu. I verified that the ImageMagick 
module is installed and operating by running the convert command in a 
shell. Tried different maps as well as toggling the snapshot.png module 
on/off several times. can anyone help?


P.S. the alarms are not working either. I installed the wav files in the 
sound folder and verified matching file names. This problem is not a 
priority to me but just in case its related.


Thanks

Mike, W2SWR


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