[aprssig] Xastir on OS X

John Zaruba Jr aa2bn at comcast.net
Sun May 13 23:39:46 EDT 2007


Greg,

It's already there. Under the map menu, look at "Bookmarks".

73,

John AA2BN

On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 17:07 -0700, Greg D. wrote:
> Oh, and if anybody from xastir programming land is gathering inputs, a set 
> of "preset" buttons for pan/zoom settings would be wonderful.
> 
> Greg  KO6TH
> 
> 
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: "Greg D." <ko6th_greg at hotmail.com>
> Reply-To: TAPR APRS Mailing List <aprssig at lists.tapr.org>
> To: aprssig at lists.tapr.org
> Subject: Re: [aprssig] Xastir on OS X
> Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 10:45:07 -0700
> 
> I'm not an expert at xastir either, but the next step is to configure the 
> maps.  Browse around under the map chooser for something that works for your 
> area; they're all on-line and some take a bit of time to download, so be 
> patient.  With the default zoom, none seem to show any detail.  I run my 
> zoom at 1024 or less usually.
> 
> About the only thing I don't care for with xastir is that the map system is 
> slow for loading, panning, zooming, etc, but there are a lot to choose from. 
>   You also seem to need to be on-line whenever you change anything, because 
> it runs off to download things again.  There's probably a way to load things 
> ahead of time, but since we have a dsl-like service I haven't bothered to 
> figure out how.
> 
> Good luck,
> 
> Greg  KO6TH
> 
> 
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: Martin Henning <martin at easy2design.de>
> Reply-To: TAPR APRS Mailing List <aprssig at lists.tapr.org>
> To: TAPR APRS Mailing List <aprssig at lists.tapr.org>
> Subject: Re: [aprssig] Xastir on OS X
> Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 09:29:29 +0200
> 
> Moin,
> 
> On May 13, 2007, at 12:06 AM, Jason Winningham wrote:
> 
> >My mistake - the link to the actual file is down.  Not sure if/when  it'll 
> >be back.
> >
> >In the mean time, the other build methods (fink, macports, diy)  will work, 
> >and you can get help on the xastir list of you need it.
> 
> After copying libpng.3.dylib from somewhere else to the proper  location my 
> macports install worked out nicely, if
> 
> that's http://www.easy2design.de/stuff/ZZ140863D6.png
> 
> how it's supposed to look like with no configuration apart from  callsign 
> and icon? :)
> 
> Never actually used xastir, so don't know yet what i should do next *g*
> 
> ...m.
> 
> --
> Martin Henning, DM5OY
> martin at easy2design.de
> http://log.tigerbus.de
> 
> 
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