[Xlog-discussion] Re: XLog

[Joop Stakenborg]

Larry Kirkland wrote:
> Joop;
> I apologize for not being available Sunday evening.  I have made some 
> progress in getting XLog running with hamlib.  After re-compiling 
> everything, I can get XLog to come up with the hamlib tab in the 
> preferences dialog.  I check the hamlib support box and Frequencty 
> Display box, and set my serial port as /dev/ttyS4.  Next I set the radio 
> as  MARK-V FT-1000MP  and  then close the dialog box. The CAT light on 
> the radio blinks and appears to be communicating.  The radio icon on the 
> status line appears but no frequency box appears.  The program is now 
> unresponsive and is frozen.  I must use kill to the process to exit.    
> If I select "Dummy" as the radio, the program does not freeze and the 
> frequency box appears (but with an incorrect freq, of course).  This 
> leads me to suspect that the problem may be  with hamlib rather than 
> XLog, although I can start the  "rigctl" utility of hamlib and 
> successfully retreive and set  frequeny , mode , etc.  Any thoughts?
> Regards;
> Larry W4LK

A quick check of the ft1000mp hamlib code reveals that the timeout for 
your rig is set to 2 seconds (way to large if you ask me). Xlog will 
poll the rig every 350 milliseconds, so that's causing you trouble.

You could do 2 things:
- change yaesu/ft1000mp.c in the hamlib source code and set .timeout to 
200 in the rigcaps, recompile and install hamlib and recompile xlog next.
- change src/main.c in the xlog source code and modify the line:
hamlibtimer = gtk_timeout_add (350, (GtkFunction) get_riginfo, NULL),
change 350 to some value larger than 2000, let's say 2200.

You are using version 0.8 of xlog, am I right?

The next major xlog version (0.9) will make things a bit easier, I will 
put the polling frequency in the preferences dialog, so you can change it.

Hope this helps,
regards,
Joop