OpenCPN Beta Build 2.6.1210

[bdbcat]

Ahoy, OpenCPN'ers...

OpenCPN Version 2.6 Beta Build 1210 will soon be available for download from opencpn.org.

Monitor the opencpn.org Downloads page to find and download the latest Beta version binaries.....

Source is available now on sourceforge git repo.

Changelog
46. Correct S57 Reader for some poorly formed ENCs, esp. Dutch (FS#586)
47. Correct Vector chart NODTA area render logic.
48. Implement OpenGL vector chart "LIGHTS" feature rendering, etc.
49. Correct s57/cm93 render region logic. (FS#666)
50. Improve Route leg rollover message. Thanks Carsten Borchardt!
51. Defensively protect against lost zoom timer events.
52. Correct RouteSplit logic (FS#669)
53. Correct OpenGL partial screen refresh logic, esp. on Vista
54. Correct for waypoint hyperlinks with embedded space characters (FS#671)
55. Correct initial OpenGL vector chart text renderer state logic (FS#664)
56. Improve AIS logic for targets losing position info. (FS#673)(FS#651)
57. Correct AISTargetList positioning logic for Windows (FS#578)
58. Correct AIS TargetQuery Brg report if Range=0.0 (FS#637)
59. Update embedded tinyxml to Version 2.6.2.
60. Implement OFSPRD Feature type in cm93 (FS#650)
61. Improve OpenGL BSB chart texture cache management.
62. Correct Tide/Current manager for some Unicode station names (FS#639) Thanks PjotrC
63. Implement support for GPSD Version 2.96 with libgps.20.so (FS#595) Thanks Brendan Le Foll

Release 2.6.1210

Notes:

Please remember to clear your Flyspray bugs if able, or at least annotate them for developer study...

Thanks
Dave

[cagney]

Dave
I got my slim mean machine back
Resource usage, average load etc, is back to normal and at about the same level using GL as in original mode.
Thanks!

Thomas

[bdbcat]

Thomas....
Any sign of Peru? I never really found a smoking gun for this one.....

Dave

[ChuckSK]

Hi Dave
2.6.1210 builds from source with one fix. nmea.cpp line 85: gpsd_data should be a pointer.

[bdbcat]

ChuckSK....

Confused. The declaration in line 85 is a global static instance of a gpsd_data structure, added to support the latest GPSD 2.96 API.
Notice in line 543, I take its address to pass as a parameter to a function.

I guess maybe it should have been a class member for better encapsulation, but global static should work too.

Are you getting a compile error? Runtime error?

Thanks
Dave

[ChuckSK]

Dave
I am getting an undefined structure error during compile. C2079

[bdbcat]

ChuckSK....

Aha...Windows...

Fix:
Wrap the offending line 85 with:

#ifdef BUILD_WITH_LIBGPS
...
#endif

We don't support libgps under Windows....

Thanks for the Q/A
Dave

[ChuckSK]

Dave

That was it. I should have seen that.

Chuck

[HamishB]

Originally Posted by bdbcat

63. Implement support for GPSD Version 2.96 with libgps.20.so (FS#595) Thanks Brendan Le Foll

Hi,

is it possible to extract the specific diff for that? I need to backport it to the Debian 2.5.0 package and am no git guru.

aka did you modify Brendan's flyspray patch at all?


thanks,
Hamish

[nohal]

Testers,
the windows build for beta 1210 is now available for download. The RPMs will follow later today.

@dave: while hovering the mouse over the chart bar in OpenGL mode, the info window is rendered, but disappears after a very short period of time. with GL off, the behavior is OK.
FS#604 still shows the same behavior as 2.5.0.

Pavel

[cagney]

Dave
There is a gpsd problem using Ubuntu 11.10

~ $ gpsd -V
gpsd: 2.95 (revision 2011-07-27T11:32:38)

~ $ ps aux | grep gpsd
nobody 2869 0.0 0.0 35912 1280 ? S<s 10:18 0:00 /usr/sbin/gpsd -F /var/run/gpsd.sock -P /var/run/gpsd.pid

When starting the program I now have this dialog



and the gps via gpsd is not working, but xgps works.

No problem to run the gps directly via /dev/ttyUSB1 (with gpsd killed).

Thomas

[sailorF54]

Originally Posted by nohal

@dave: while hovering the mouse over the chart bar in OpenGL mode, the info window is rendered, but disappears after a very short period of time.

Pavel

Could not reproduce with Vista in OpenGL mode.

(With parallel install) the following CM93 objects will not stay ticked on relaunch.

[cagney]

Originally Posted by sailorF54

Could not reproduce with Vista in OpenGL mode.

(With parallel install) the following CM93 objects will not stay ticked on relaunch.

I can't reproduce Nohals problem either.
But there is a problem with the vector objects. I have similar but not exactly the same scenario.
On repeated restarts lg_vsp is the last ticked object and then only _texto follows, that refuses to take a tick.
Initially there were a few more objects after lg_vsp, that were not ticked, but they disappeared on restart.
Thomas

[janp391]

The last 3 check boxes in Mariner's Standard will not stay ticked when OCPN is started.
When Open GL is used there are some text in the cm93 chart that is odd, when uncheck the GL box it is ok. Running W7 sp1.

[sailorF54]

Originally Posted by janp391

When Open GL is used there are some text in the cm93 chart that is odd, when uncheck the GL box it is ok. Running W7 sp1.

Confirmed latest Vista. The culprit is the text displayed with 'Show light description'

With the classical rendering, the light description text seems to be displayed twice with a few pixels offset (also/already in 2.5.0)