On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 10:28 -0700, Curt, WE7U wrote: > On Fri, 8 Aug 2008, Dexter N Muir wrote: > > > Yep - earlier openMotif (2.23 from Mandriva 2007.1) did the trick. > > Those windows come up full-window now - much more sightly and > > convenient. > > Now do we suss out why? so newbies like me don't suffer the same > > fate? Amend sources to account for differences, or wiki to point to > > workable sources? > > We've been suffering from problems with IM (somewhat more), GM > (somewhat less), Motif, and Lesstif for some time, with a few > problems here and there with wget and libcurl. Sometimes a few > other libs but probably not enough to worry about. > > When I think about external libs now I mostly think of problems > instead of solutions. > > I've been interested for some time in dumping some of our libraries > and finding alternatives, but not interested enough yet to actually > start doing it. > > *) IM/GM might be replaced for our purposes with some package that > could do GIF/JPG/PNG, was in source form, and was GPL'ed. We could > add it to our package like we did the Shapelib package. > > Tom will probably break in here and suggest that we not add things > to our sources like this, but really we've had so much trouble with > IM/GM that I'm suggesting that replacing them with a known working > subset is a good thing. It'd solve a major problem that we have had > for years: Unstable image libraries. There's quite a bit of image > processing code in Xastir so this would take a while to do. > > *) I've had some trouble with non-working wget in the past, and very > occasionally with libcurl. Our code is already isolated pretty well > here so that we could find a package that did ftp/http fetches and > integrate it into our code easily. That would solve another problem > and would be easy/fast to do. > > *) The last problem is the OpenMotif/Lesstif thing. These libraries > are rapidly aging now, everyone else having moved on to the Qtu > and/or Gtk+ libraries. Switching our GUI over to one (or both?) of > these would be a more major task, as there's GUI code through most > of our source files. > > If we added image processing and ftp/http fetching code to our > sources, every compile would be capable from then on of working with > internet maps and local raster or vector (Shapelib) images. If we > then went the extra step of getting rid of Motif, we'd potentially > be able to compile on more platforms, with a lot of work, and would > bypass some of the widget problems we have fairly often now. >
Hi Curt and all... Took a dunderhead newbie like me to show these things up :-) IM/GM: Is there something that really needs this particular library, or is it just a convenient all-in-one for component libs - png, tiff, jpeg etc. Would a break-down into individual libs be a major headache or loss? 10 cents'-worth from ZL2DEX -- Dexter N Muir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> smallTRONICS _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
