Shutdown Button

[jono_howlett]

Hi All,

I have spent quite a bit of time and effort getting opencpn
+ charts onto the Raspberry Pi and it looks good so far.

One really annoying problem I cant find an immediate solution for
is how to turn off the Pi. Im running opencpn in full screen and Id
like to be able to present the user with an off button. I dont want
then simply turning the power off to the unit avoiding a clean shutdown.

Is there some way of customising the toolbar? Anyway of running a shutdown
script from somewhere in opencpn?

Is there a "off" plugin?

Thanks in advance

jono

[AISEAG]

Jono,

There is a set of Shortcut into OpenCPN.

"Ctrl + Q" allows you to quit.


Serge

[GordMay]

Greetings and welcome aboard the CF, Jono.

[Baikal]

Originally Posted by jono_howlett

Hi All,

I have spent quite a bit of time and effort getting opencpn
+ charts onto the Raspberry Pi and it looks good so far.

One really annoying problem I cant find an immediate solution for
is how to turn off the Pi. Im running opencpn in full screen and Id
like to be able to present the user with an off button. I dont want
then simply turning the power off to the unit avoiding a clean shutdown.

Is there some way of customising the toolbar? Anyway of running a shutdown
script from somewhere in opencpn?

Is there a "off" plugin?

Thanks in advance

jono

create a wish on the tracker

I, too, For the End of the menu!
himself confronted with such a problem when working in full screen

Here the concept of menu ideas with submenus where she could be such a button Computer Shutdown

[jono_howlett]

Originally Posted by Baikal

create a wish on the tracker

I, too, For the End of the menu!
himself confronted with such a problem when working in full screen

Here the concept of menu ideas with submenus where she could be such a button Computer Shutdown

Looks very nice! I love opencpn but its UI could do with a bit of an update. A customisable toolbar would be a really great feature. Users would be able to easily add URLs, scripts etc easily without getting into writing plugins.

jono

[rgleason]

Looks very nice! I love opencpn but its UI could do with a bit of an update.

OpenCPN had a complete rework of the UI recently, see all the work Jesper did!! This interface is pretty good I think, I may be prejudiced because one of the first things I did was to help him by compiling for windows and testing.....of course there is always room for improvement, so perhaps you should participate in this thread with some more specific thoughts and suggestions? http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/...ml#post1414915

User definable Keyboard macros will take an additional programmer, however bdcat is ready to improve the shortcuts if we can all agree and come up with a plan! Your help would be good.

[Viking Sailor]

There are already existing "shutdown" commands in linux/os-x and windows. These can be used to write trivial scripts that start O and then shutdown the computer upon exiting from O.

I definitely don't think that a button that shuts down the computer belongs in an application. It makes no more sense to put it into O then it would to but it into Firefox or Word.

[nohal]

Originally Posted by jono_howlett

Looks very nice! I love opencpn but its UI could do with a bit of an update. A customisable toolbar would be a really great feature. Users would be able to easily add URLs, scripts etc easily without getting into writing plugins.

jono

OK, while that "off plugin" idea was a bit too simple, this one is a bit better, so I wrote a plugin saving you the work with writing a plugin.
Introducing the Launcher:
It's a very simple dialog you can equip with as many configurable buttons as you like. To make it a bit more useful than what it would be when done completely outside OpenCPN, it does a pretty simple variable substitution, so you can use it to point other apps at your boat's location, send position report e-mails to your mom or kids etc.
Clone the source from https://github.com/nohal/launcher_pi to the plugin subdir of your source tree and cmake/make/install as you normally would.
No binaries for now and tested just on Linux...

Let me know if you want some more features or something does not work as expected.

Pavel

[Baikal]

Originally Posted by nohal

OK, while that "off plugin" idea was a bit too simple, this one is a bit better, so I wrote a plugin saving you the work with writing a plugin.
Introducing the Launcher:
It's a very simple dialog you can equip with as many configurable buttons as you like. To make it a bit more useful than what it would be when done completely outside OpenCPN, it does a pretty simple variable substitution, so you can use it to point other apps at your boat's location, send position report e-mails to your mom or kids etc.
Clone the source from https://github.com/nohal/launcher_pi to the plugin subdir of your source tree and cmake/make/install as you normally would.
No binaries for now and tested just on Linux...

Let me know if you want some more features or something does not work as expected.

Pavel

but as is the case with customer support Windows
what commands to shut down the computer
not enough to specify the path to the application executable
it would be good to display shortcuts to these applications in the launcher.
settings
opportunity for each team to specify the icon. Display Options - Only icon, text and icon, only text.

Please tell me how to do the build plugin windows in which commands which prescribe. I'm not a developer, not familiar with it.

[Verezano]

Shutting down the machine for a application to me feels like the wrong order.
Why not create a script that starts opencpn, waits for it to finish and then issue a shutdown?
On linux the script should be in /etc/init.d and have a logical link to it in the correct /etc/rc.x (x being most likely 2)
On windows a opencpn.cmd script can be made that starts opencpn and when finished it runs "shutdown -s"

On linux you can even create a script that just starts X, the window manager and opencpn. That way X is only run for the application and no other stuff is launched that is not needed

[nohal]

Originally Posted by Baikal

but as is the case with customer support Windows
what commands to shut down the computer
not enough to specify the path to the application executable
it would be good to display shortcuts to these applications in the launcher.
settings
opportunity for each team to specify the icon. Display Options - Only icon, text and icon, only text.

Please tell me how to do the build plugin windows in which commands which prescribe. I'm not a developer, not familiar with it.

I uploaded a precompiled Windows binary to Download opencpnplugins from SourceForge.net - I didn't even try to run it, so let me know if there are any glitches.

Pavel

[Baikal]

Originally Posted by nohal

I uploaded a precompiled Windows binary to Download opencpnplugins from SourceForge.net - I didn't even try to run it, so let me know if there are any glitches.

Pavel

Thank you!
But still I would like to compile from source yourself.
Please tell me how?

Makes the assembly CPN I've been doing, but does not work with plug-ins
possible in PM

[nohal]

I suppose you still don't have the source on your machine...

cd c:\POENCPNSRC\plugins
git clone https://github.com/nohal/launcher_pi.git
cd ..\build
cmake ..
cmake --build . --config release
copy plugins\launcher_pi\Release\launcher_pi.dll "C:\Program files\OpenCPN\plugins\"

Pavel

[rgleason]

cmake --build . --config release <-- Thanks for the shortcut tip!

[Baikal]

Originally Posted by nohal

I suppose you still don't have the source on your machine...

cd c:\POENCPNSRC\plugins
git clone https://github.com/nohal/launcher_pi.git
cd ..\build
cmake ..
cmake --build . --config release
copy plugins\launcher_pi\Release\launcher_pi.dll "C:\Program files\OpenCPN\plugins\"

Pavel

that prescribe to (..)?
cd .. \ build
cmake ..