Re: [Xastir] Different symbols for symbols with overlays

2016-10-15 Thread Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr)
Hessu, author of aprs.fi, did some symbol work and has released his symbols for general use. He's using SVG as a vector source which can then be rendered for use in older bitmap-based clients like xastir and APRSISCE/32. If you're doing new symbols, it would seem to make sense to do them in a

Re: [Xastir] Different symbols for symbols with overlays

2016-10-15 Thread Eric Christensen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 10/14/2016 11:51 PM, Tom Russo wrote: > Xastir is not currently set up to support this. > > If you wanted to work on it, you'd also have to change the code to > do more than plop a character on top of an existing symbol. Okay, I'm thinking about

Re: [Xastir] Different symbols for symbols with overlays

2016-10-14 Thread Tom Russo
Xastir is not currently set up to support this. If you wanted to work on it, you'd also have to change the code to do more than plop a character on top of an existing symbol. On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 02:27:40PM -0400, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the flavor, containing: > -BEGI

[Xastir] Different symbols for symbols with overlays

2016-10-14 Thread Eric Christensen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Does Xastir support the ability to display a different symbol based on the overlay transmitted? It appears that Bob's vision (as described in the Overlay section of http://www.aprs.org/symbols.html) is to display a different symbol for certain symbo