Many thanks to both of you for hints and tricks, I will try them and report.
Cyril F1MHV > Le 20 avr. 2021 à 18:08, Jason KG4WSV <[email protected]> a écrit : > > I find the 800x480 7" touchscreen a bit difficult to use (IIRC some menus > don't fit on the screen) using the 640x480 updates Brett mentions. Part of > that is the clumsiness of the touchscreen (my fat fingers aren't as precise > as the mouse that Motif was designed for). > > It would be unusable with a smaller screen resolution. The screen would be > dominated by menus (some of them anyway) and status bar. > > You can easily test this for yourself, just run xastir on a normal display > and shrink the window to the number of pixels that match resolution you're > considering. > > -j > > > > >> On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 8:55 AM Brett Friermood <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Hi Cyril, >> >> I don't know if I've heard of anyone using that small of a display, but >> Xastir does have some built-in abilities to help with smaller displays. >> However, to take advantage of them will require recompiling from source. If >> you have not installed Xastir via that method already it could be a steep >> learning curve for you. >> >> Prior to compiling there is a flag in main.c (search for "LCD640x480TOUCH") >> that can be uncommented to make the changes including moving where dialogs >> display, swapping mouse button functions to work with touchscreens, and >> reconfiguring the status message area. Additionally, changing the font to a >> smaller size will help. >> >> As the flag name implies, things were specifically set up for a 640x480 >> resolution, so I'm not sure how well it will work with such a small display >> as you are using. >> >> Brett KQ9N >> >> >>> On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 1:16 AM f1mhv <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hello Group, >>> >>> Does anyone have feedbacks on using Xastir with a RPi3B together with 3,5 >>> » TFT touch screen 480x320 resolution screen? For the time being i have a >>> partial and shrink Xastir window making-it unusable… >>> >>> 73 de Cyril - DF1CHB - F1MHV >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Xastir mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir >> > > > -- > -Jason > kg4wsv > _______________________________________________ > Xastir mailing list > [email protected] > http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
