[time-nuts] Lady Heather's Fat Client

John Miles jmiles at pop.net
Thu Dec 10 01:44:54 UTC 2009


That graphics library is 95% post-consumer fiber at this point. :(  It's
good for rapid development and porting work but as you can tell it's pretty
rough around the edges.

Every time I run a survey on a Thunderbolt here, it seems to want to find
itself at the bottom of the lake.  Bruce pointed out in an email that what
GPS considers "altitude" isn't necessarily the same as what terrestrial
mapmakers mark as sea level, so maybe that's what's happening.

-- john

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Naruta AA8K [mailto:aa8k at comcast.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 4:12 PM
> To: John Miles; time-nuts at febo.com
> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Lady Heather's Fat Client
>
>
>
> Oh, I thought it was my PC.
> Neat John, we like recycled code.
>
> The KE5FX remote access is fun too, works well.
>
> I'm surprised that your antenna receives so well,
> being at -7.6 m.  Doesn't it get wet?
>
>
> (I know; I'm just trying to be funny)
>
>
> Mike - AA8K
>
>
>
> John Miles wrote:
> > Hi, Mike --
> >
> > Correct, that's not a bug, and it won't change unless/until the
> program is
> > rewritten with a new graphics library.
> >
> > In fullscreen mode there's no window border, so the 1024x768
> display surface
> > can accommodate the 1024x768 client area.  When you hit F11 to
> go back to
> > windowed mode on a machine with a 1024x768 desktop, there's no
> room for the
> > window border and caption bar that surrounds the client area, so the
> > graphics system has to downsample the client area to fit.
> >
> > Back when the graphics library was written, in an era when 33
> MHz processors
> > were still common, it was much faster to downsample by factors
> of two than
> > to incrementally shrink the image to fit.  So you will always
> get the tiny,
> > cramped display window in cases where you request a resolution in window
> > mode that can't fit on the desktop.
> >
> > -- john, KE5FX
> >
>




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