No problem about the answers, I do not need feedback urgently :-) To use the modifications you have to copy the xtherion.tcl and xtherion.ini files from the archives and overwrite the ones you have. They are in two different archives. Then you can edit the Ini and modify the colors. It's a good idea to make a backup of the original files in case something goes wrong. Vladimir On Feb 17, 2016 8:37 PM, "Markus Boldt" <markus.boldt@gmx.net> wrote:

Hi Vladimir,

I say the same as Bruce. Perhaps I already more a user as Bruce and so you will get no answers from me too. Excuse!

But I want to know:

If I want to use this advantage must I only copy the changes in die INI.file? But in witch INI-File?

Please do a look to the attachment. There are 4 INI-Files in my directory.

And then simply added that to the end of the file? And I think without the CR – or is that equal?

Greeting and many thanks for that work!

Markus

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Hi all

There are some modifications that I made to the XTherion and would be interested if someone can test them and share their opinion. They were quickly patched up and I am no TCL developer so there might be a bug or two.

Initially I needed to have an XTherion shortcut to delete a line point so I started looking through the source. I added Ctrl+Shift+D for deleting a line point, Ctrl+Up/Down for zooming in and out in the map editor.

The all blue items in the map editor were harder to use so I tried to colorize them. E.g. walls to be "brick red", pits are magenta, rock borders dark gray, slope is yellow, etc. The non-selected scrap is light gray. The station point I made orange and a triangle instead of a circle so it is more visible.

I will probably add other colors after I work with the editor more.

I have attached a couple of screenshots of how it looks, the xtherion source and the "compiled" xtherion tcl app.

Btw, where does the source live, besides the zip archive on the site? Is there a source control repo somewhere that people can contribute to?

For experimenting with the colors I used a private git repo. I admit I haven't checked the licensing for the code.

Here are the colors that I changed and added them to the INI file.

#set xth(gui,me,activefill) red #set xth(gui,me,pasivefill) green #set xth(gui,me,controlfill) blue #set xth(gui,me,highlightfill) cyan #set xth(gui,me,unselectedfill) lightgray #set xth(gui,me,wallcolor) brown #set xth(gui,me,pitcolor) magenta #set xth(gui,me,slopecolor) gold #set xth(gui,me,rockcolor) snow4 #set xth(gui,me,bordercolor) turquoise #set xth(gui,me,stationcolor) darkorange

Best Vladimir

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Yes, the colors could use some tweaking depending on how people use the map editor. And likely on their monitor. I work mostly with Topodroid, which exports a Therion drawing directly and I don't have an image at the background. But still some editing is needed usually with Therion. Adding the orientation should not be a problem. It can probably either show the arrows all the time without needing to select the points, or show something smaller. I'll check it in a few days. Vladimir On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 4:16 PM, Footleg <drfootleg@gmail.com> wrote:

I've taken a quick look, and this is really (REALLY!) useful. Just messed with the colours, not the other enhancements. I already changed the colour of rock lines from snow4 to yellow by editing (and uncommenting) that line in the ini file. I could not tell my rock lines from my survey lines rendered in the background sketch imported from PocketTopo. Some of the other colours are maybe a little too dark so I will experiment more to brighten them up and see what I think works best as I am sketching.

The triangles for station points have another advantage over just changing their colour. I can now see the black circles for the stations positions in the background sketch imported from PocketTopo. Previously the blue circles of the stations points completely hid the black circles they were placed on top of.

If you could add something to the points which have an orientation set to show the orientation (without having to select them as currently) that would be another step forwards.

Great stuff, thank you!

+++ Wookey [2016-02-19 15:23 +0000]:

I'm building the package now and will upload soon if everything works.

It didn't. Therion tries to run itself to build the librarydata file (which will never work in a cross-build and is a bad plan) and it's not working in a normal clean build either right now. I'm not sure why that's now failing (builds used to work). And I'm off on hols for 3 weeks in a mo, so this will have to wait. Sorry. make library make[2]: Entering directory '/«PKGBUILDDIR»' ./therion --print-library-src thlibrarydata.thcfg > thlibrarydata.log /bin/sh: 1: ./therion: not found make[2]: *** [library] Error 127 Makefile:179: recipe for target 'library' failed make[2]: Leaving directory '/«PKGBUILDDIR»' make[1]: *** [thlibrarydata.cxx] Error 2 Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/

+++ Владимир Георгиев [2016-02-19 19:11 +0200]:

On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 5:23 PM, Wookey <wookey@wookware.org> wrote:

So I merged your code into the debian package. You had managed to 'dosify' me_cmds2.tcl which made a massive patch, but I've fixed that (and quite a lot of trailing whitespace). Patch attached to save anyone else the work. I'm building the package now and will upload soon if everything works.

​Don't know that you mean by "dosify" :)

Changed all the lineends from 0x0A (unix linefeeds) to 0x0D,0x0A (DOS linefeeds) (which makes every line different). Normally this is a problem with editors silently converting your files, but sometimes also VCSes. Not helped by the fact that some files from upstream are 'mixed line-ends', which can confuse editors.

Indeed there was some whitespace in most of the files. I didn't remove it exactly to avoid making a large patch/commit.

Right, but you (well, your editor, no doubt) added some more :-) The debian package has a huge whitespace patch to fix this irritation, but Stacho has not merged it upstream yet :-(

About building the packages, I actually tried building xtherion only, not the whole Therion. But I suppose that xtherion should not affect the rest of the build process.

No, it's not your fault. I recall this being an issue already. Therion build-depends on itself, so it builds OK if it's already installed on the build machine (and the library catalogue hasn't changed between what's installed and what's building), but not in a clean environment. Which means I don't understand how the current debian builds are building at all (because they should be done in just such an environement) I was going to fix it properly by generating the catalogue in a less crufty way, but have clearly not got round to it. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/