GPS based Odometer

[rgleason]

Lennart, for example see
https://github.com/OpenCPN/plugins/issues/942


I need to do this for Tactics and DashboardTactics

[LennartG]

So, it appears we have 3 different problems here, none of them visible on my Ubuntu 20.04 system with a 1680x1050 screen. All of these has been reported om Windows systems only.
I will likely have to get me a Windows system for the first time in many years.

1/ The text '(null)' preceding distances. This is something possibly related to text formatting and what I will pay most attention to.

2/ Repeated buttons, this appears to be a wxWidgets/Windows resolution thing. I'm using the standard functionality since the early days of GPS Odometer and it has never been reported before. The only difference now is that button width is a variable instead of a fixed value. Is this related to high resolution screen systems only?

3/ Text sizes, likely related to high screen resolution. This appears to be common to Tactics and Dashboard Tactics. Dashboard is updated and I've added some of these fixes but apparently still having problems. Where is the resolution limit here and how is scaling involved?

To me it looks like 2/ and 3/ is somewhat related and resolution or scaling dependant.
It is a pity I did not get those reported on the two betas that were released earlier (or are they new in 0.8.3?).

/LennartG

[Corsair63]

Hi LennartG,

I had installed 0.8.1 on windows systems and I had not the problem of multiple buttons when scaling, it's first time I got it.

and of course, thanks a lot for the plugin development and your time.

[LennartG]

Corsair,
that's interesting, have not changed anything with buttons since 0.8.1. You make me really confused. Need to do some diff tests to find the cause.
Also: What about this '(null)' thing, did you see that in 0.8.1?
/LennartG

[Corsair63]

Originally Posted by LennartG

Corsair,
that's interesting, have not changed anything with buttons since 0.8.1. You make me really confused. Need to do some diff tests to find the cause.
Also: What about this '(null)' thing, did you see that in 0.8.1?
/LennartG

Over the day or tomorrow I'll carry a test on the tablet.
I'll uninstall 0.8.3 and install again 0.8.1, I have the file.

and I'll check and send screenshot of it, what I can say is that I could resize in the tablet without doubling the buttons, because it's high-resolution display by default is very narrow, the only thing that they were fixed and left aligned.

I'll revert with findings.

[Corsair63]

done the test, uninstalled version 0.8.3 and manually installed 0.8.1

pictures:
1 - version 0.8.3 out the self, very narrow and showing (null)
2 - version 0.8.1 out the self, very narrow, not showing (null)
4 - version 0.8.1 extended to see all text, no multiplication of buttons and not showing (null)

[LennartG]

Corsair, great!
So 0.8.1 is apparently a little bit older than I remember. Now I really got something to go on.
I'm now in the middle of installing Win10 on my virtual system and will try to repeat what you just have done.
Have also done the diff and is hopefully on to something.

Thanks a lot!

/LennartG

[Corsair63]

the test is in the tablet with high resolution screen.

in the other computers the off the self the plugin window is of good size and displays everything.

[LennartG]

Corsair,
got the Win10 installation up and OpenCPN installed. I can see the buttons problem to begin with. Now I need to install charts and GPS emulator.
Problem is that I need to generate beta test versions to have something to run and test on the Win10 system (or is there a better alternative besides installing the complete compile stuff?).
/LennartG

[nohal]

LennartG...

If you build on that machine, you can completely skip the installation and simply replace the plugin DLL library with your build product locally. "Installing the complete compile stuff" is actually really simple following the instructions from https://opencpn-manuals.github.io/ma...v/windows.html

[LennartG]

nohal,
thanks for the info!
Followed the steps under '5.8.0 Fast track' and installed VS, choco and git (thru choco).
Then used build_win.bat that complained about '7z' a few times and did not find 'buildwin', none of those fatal.
Continued and it took some time to find 'appveyor.bat' (that also complaied about '7z') and then ended complaining it could not find 'cmake'.

That's where I am right now. Looking for cmake for windows but need a break.
/LennartG

[LennartG]

nohal, got a bit further but, sorry, not into finish strip (yet).

7zip is installed (reporting version 24.01) as is cmake (version 3.38.2) and Visual Studio 2022 (version 17.8.6).

System restarted numerous times and all of the above programs start when called from the menu.

Path reports as
PATH=C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\Sys tem32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v 1.0\;C:\Windows\System32\OpenSSH\;C:\ProgramData\c hocolatey\bin;C:\Program Files\Git\cmd;C:\Users\lennart\AppData\Local\Micro soft\WindowsApps;C:\Program Files\CMake\bin

'.\ci\appveyor.bat' still fails with e.g:

--------------------------
2024-02-04 14:45:03 URL:https://codeload.github.com/OpenCPN/...refs/tags/v0.3 [20363459] -> "C:/Users/lennart/OpenCPN/buildwin/../cache/OCPNWindowsCoreBuildSupport.zip" [1]
'7z' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
File not found - buildwin
0 File(s) copied
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And later on:
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C:\Users\lennart\OpenCPN>call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\Common7\Tools\vsDevCmd.bat"
************************************************** ********************
** Visual Studio 2022 Developer Command Prompt v17.8.6
** Copyright (c) 2022 Microsoft Corporation
************************************************** ********************
Appending C:\Users\lennart\OpenCPN\buildwin\..\cache\wxWidge ts-3.2.4\lib\vc14x_dll to PATH
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:65 (project):
Generator

Visual Studio 17 2022

could not find any instance of Visual Studio.

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I get exactly the same thing running as regular user or administrator.

A confused LennartG

[LennartG]

GPS-Odometer 0.8.4 is now available for download in the package manager.
Hopefully fixed most of the Windows problems plus a minor csv log file error.
High resolution screens may still see the text size inconvenience.
/LennartG

[Corsair63]

Hi Lennart,

tested version 0.8.4 in windows 11 x64 & ARM64.

w11 x64 & 0ne ARM64 display 1080, no problem with resizing, display etc.
Tablet w11 ARM64 with High resolution, no problem too while resizing, display, etc, all buttons are resized accordingly.

as usual in the PIM it shows that 0.8.0 is installed instead the proper version.
attachment:
1 - after updating master catalogue ready for update, seen the version 0.8.0 instead 0.8.3 but properly shown the update 0.8.4
2 - after installing new version
3 - resized windows plugin in tablet (High resolution)
4 - PIM showing again 0.8.0 instead of 0.8.4 installed.

[LennartG]

Corsair,
good to hear it works ok with the buttons and fairly ok with text sizes.
The numbering problem is likely due to previous installs of beta versions. It displays ok here at my machines (Linux and Windows). Sounds more like a PIM refresh problem than anything else, awaiting comments from others.
/LennartG