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Originally Posted by Gilletarom
Every day that passes, I screw my head against the walls because I am not able to program. So I have to accept that this regression of OpenCPN will remain a boards are OpenCPN regression.
That said, thank you Transmitterdam for your personalized advice.
Obviously, these tips are difficult to offer to alpha or beta users and even to experienced users.
Gilletarom.
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Gilletarom,
It is not a simple matter of programming. There are hundreds of different
screen sizes using OpenCPN. I think it is nearly impossible to have a programming solution that automatically works the best for each and every user and every possible computer configuration. And you have to admit that
NMEA debugging is not something we are doing every day. At least I hope not.
There is another idea you can try without editing the opencpn.ini file. You can try this yourself and tell me if it works.
1) Open the options->connections dialog.
2) Click the
NMEA debug check box.
3) Find the NMEA debug window and change its size by dragging the lower right corner until it is almost at the lower right of the chart window.
4) Close the NMEA debug window.
5) Close the options-connections dialog by clicking OK.
6) Close OpenCPN and restart it.
7) Open the options->connections dialog.
8) Click the NMEA debug check box.
See if OpenCPN remembered the new size of the debug window. Now it should be much bigger than before but it will be in the center of the
screen behind the options dialog box. O should remember this new size every time you open the NMEA debug window.
Every day I curse some programmer who did something stupid. For example, Microsoft Word programmers think that when I try to highlight text by starting in the middle of a word that I really meant to highlight from the beginning of the word and forces the selection to be at the beginning of the word. But even though I know exactly what I am doing they try to "improve" the user experience by doing exactly what I did not want.