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Let me clarify.

YAAC's screens were designed for a conventional laptop PC, with minimally 1024x768 pixels to work with. They weren't designed for low-resolution screens, because it's too hard to draw a usable map with limited pixels. So the screen layout assumed that there would be enough width to display all the messaging controls at the bottom of the map window.

The menu choice Message->Station provides the same functionality in a popup dialog window, but has the fields in different lines, so it may not require as much screen width.

I have been contemplating an alternate screen for low-res mobile operations (such as the 7" touchscreen for Raspberry Pi), but haven't come up with a layout I like yet that will fit in such a tiny space and still be operable with fat fingers on a touchscreen.

Andrew, KA2DDO
author of YAAC
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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Christopher Rose <kb8uih88@...>
Sent: Saturday, December 28, 2019 11:13 AM
To: '[email protected]'
Subject: Re: [yaac-users] Message box

Michael, Andrew said menu choices will get you where you want to go on your smaller screen. Then you say too bad? Did I misunderstand this exchange?

Chris


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From: "Michael WA7SKG"
To: "Andrew P.", "[email protected]"
Cc:
Sent: Saturday December 28 2019 6:05:11AM
Subject: Re: [yaac-users] Message box

That is too bad. Perhaps I am misinformed or have misunderstood, but I
thought the whole purpose of APRS was to cater to the mobile user to
provide a quick and easy method of reporting position, status, and brief
messages. Mobile operation, by its nature, necessitates smaller screens
and demands minimal operator actions to accomplish a task. The system
should be driven to meet that situation, rather than make it more
difficult for the primary purpose.

Maybe I am missing the point of APRS. Perhaps further investigation is
in order.

Michael WA7SKG


Andrew P. wrote on 12/27/19 6:24 PM:

It's because your window is too small. The rightmost controls in the
footer are being drawn off-screen because they don't fit in the allowed
window space.

There are menu choices to get you the same functionality in a smaller
window.



Sent from my Verizon 4G LTE smartphone


-------- Original message --------
From: Michael WA7SKG <wa7skg@...>
Date: 12/27/19 20:16 (GMT-05:00)
To: [email protected]
Subject: [yaac-users] Message box

Another question. On my base configuration, at the bottom of the screen,
there are three boxes, TO, VIA, and Message, followed by a SEND button.
I can put in a callsign, a path, and some text, hit send and it goes to
that station. However, on my just configured mobile, only the TO and VIA
boxes are visible. The TEXT box and the SEND button are missing.

Is this a configuration issue? Or because I am using a much smaller
screen (22" on base, 7" on mobile)?

Thanks,
Michael WA7SKG