OpenCPN Version 2.6 Beta Build 1125

[PjotrC]

Originally Posted by bdbcat

Anyone having similar problems with Win7?

I got hold now of a Win7 box briefly. Did not try to turn off dwm.exe, but just normally running 2.6.1125 OpenGL looks exactly like Vista without dwm...

P.

[Ptizef]

Ok to build from Git
Jean Pierre

[cagney]

Originally Posted by bdbcat

Thomas...

re/incorrect chart quilt patches...

Does this happen from initial load with OpenGL enabled, or only after panning about and viewing multiple charts/scales, and then switching to OpenGL?

Dave

Dave
Testing and trying to recreate.
Meanwhile I notice that the OpenGL mode seems to be a real resource hog. Running without GL "top" reports a steady 15% mem use. Switching to GL and this value quickly rises to 60% +, until the program becomes unresponsive. On exit the program then seems to hang until Kdesktop gets fed up and asks if I want to kill the process.

Running OpenCPN with valgrind results in this

==32628== 
==32628== HEAP SUMMARY:
==32628==     in use at exit: 5,277,588 bytes in 19,410 blocks
==32628==   total heap usage: 1,488,924 allocs, 1,469,514 frees, 3,395,517,078 bytes allocated
==32628== 
==32628== LEAK SUMMARY:
==32628==    definitely lost: 26,359 bytes in 151 blocks
==32628==    indirectly lost: 234,636 bytes in 2,174 blocks
==32628==      possibly lost: 3,409,563 bytes in 6,579 blocks
==32628==    still reachable: 1,607,030 bytes in 10,506 blocks
==32628==         suppressed: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==32628== Rerun with --leak-check=full to see details of leaked memory
==32628== 
==32628== For counts of detected and suppressed errors, rerun with: -v
==32628== Use --track-origins=yes to see where uninitialised values come from
==32628== ERROR SUMMARY: 6268335 errors from 1000 contexts (suppressed: 59 from 11)

Thomas

[bdbcat]

ptizef.....

If you could make one small change to chcanv.cpp, and recompile for a test under Vista.....

Existing code

 
void ChartCanvas::Refresh( bool eraseBackground, const wxRect *rect)
{
if(g_bopengl)
m_glcc->Refresh(eraseBackground, rect);
else
wxWindow::Refresh(eraseBackground, rect);
}

Change to

 
void ChartCanvas::Refresh( bool eraseBackground, const wxRect *rect)
{
if(g_bopengl)
m_glcc->Refresh(eraseBackground, NULL);
else
wxWindow::Refresh(eraseBackground, rect);
}

This will force all OpenGL window redraws to update the entire window, unconditionally.

Thanks
Dave

[Ptizef]

Good night Dave

I just recompile with your code change and tried hard for half and hour
to reproduce the refresh problem and I failed .
Good job , it seems the problem of small refreshed part of the screen is solved (at least on my system)

time to go to bed for me

Regards
Jean Pierre

[owenr]

Thanks for all the hard work.

Ubuntu 11.10

Under OpenGL some elements of charts are not shown, in this example, the arrows indicating direction in Traffic Separation lanes. These are not revealed by zooming further in, but show up when OpenGL is disabled.

Also, some unusual colours appear in certain areas of the chart (dark green in this example, orange in some others).

Unfortunately unable to test with GPS input.

[sailorF54]

Originally Posted by owenr

Ubuntu 11.10

Under OpenGL some elements of charts are not shown, in this example, the arrows indicating direction in Traffic Separation lanes. These are not revealed by zooming further in, but show up when OpenGL is disabled.
.

Confirmed with Vista
(Other magenta features are also missing)

[bdbcat]

Hi there all...

Anyone worked with the "portable" (-p) option yet?

Just wondering
Dave

[PjotrC]

I tried the Portable way of OCPN...

It works nice, and is very useful.

1. It would be great to be able to add a label to the window:

opencpn -p "My portable version"

2. If a chart directory is deleted, OCPN on next start still shows the chart outlines on screen. 2.5.0 will silently remove them on attempted access. 2.6.1125 will crash...

3. D: is my portable drive today. I am not sure all of this is OK:

[Directories]
S57DataLocation=D:\\OpenCPN 2.6.1125\\s57data
SENCFileLocation=D:\\OpenCPN 2.6.1125\\SENC
PresentationLibraryData=
CM93DictionaryLocation=..\\bb_be\\CM93ed2_2010\\
InitChartDir=D:\\bb_be\\CM93ed2_2010
GPXIODir=D:\\Dokumenty20110125\\navig\\tracks
GRIBDirectory=D:\\OpenCPN 2.6.1125
IACFleetDirectory=D:\\OpenCPN 2.6.1125

Of course the plugins are responsible for their behaviour.

Piotr

[cagney]

Originally Posted by bdbcat

Thomas...

re/incorrect chart quilt patches...

Does this happen from initial load with OpenGL enabled, or only after panning about and viewing multiple charts/scales, and then switching to OpenGL?

Dave

I'm unable to recreate.....at this moment.
The way it happened was like this:
I had about 20 different raster charts loaded + cm93, using OpenGL all the time and switching a lot between single and quilting with F9. I first observed something weird, looking at a chart with irregular shape. The problem went, when turning off GL. I then loaded all the Carib charts to find a similar shaped chart, an see if the same thing happened. During this process I looked at quite a few charts all over, until I came across the view in the post.

Thomas

[bdbcat]

PjotrC...

Can you tell me more about conditions for

2. If a chart  directory is deleted, OCPN on next start still shows the chart outlines  on screen. 2.5.0 will silently remove them on attempted access.  2.6.1125 will crash...

Thanks
Dave

[bdbcat]

Hi...

Anyone tried Bluetooth GPS on Windows --WITHOUT-- an intermediary Virtual Port setup?
I tested with a Bluetooth serial port link from an Android tablet. No GPS, just confirmed data flow. A contrived test, to be sure, but all I had at hand....

Wondering
Dave

[PjotrC]

Originally Posted by bdbcat

Can you tell me more ...

I had one crash with 2.6.1125 and I attach the logfile for it. However... I cannot reproduce it... On Sunday morn it looked so obvious, that I did not investigate too much. The steps I took were:

1. create a directory with charts on portable drive
2. start OCPN portably and add (1.) to chartset, zoom in to some charts
3. close OCPN
4. delete the directory
5. restart OCPN and navigate to the outlines still visible
6. click on a chart bar in the Status Bar

but my memory tells me it was with Belgian ENC, while the log shows the Dutch...

I will keep looking for this.

Piotr

[P_Dub]

Originally Posted by bdbcat

Hi...

Anyone tried Bluetooth GPS on Windows --WITHOUT-- an intermediary Virtual Port setup?
I tested with a Bluetooth serial port link from an Android tablet. No GPS, just confirmed data flow. A contrived test, to be sure, but all I had at hand....

Wondering
Dave

It works OK with version 2.5.0 but not with 2.6.---
I don't kow why! so remove the 2.6.-- and I am waiting for the next.
P_Dub

[tiersp]

Anyone tried Bluetooth GPS on Windows --WITHOUT-- an intermediary Virtual Port setup?

Yes with win 7 and it's not good.
The port COM do'nt appear in the list, so ...

But It's ok with an virtual port setup.