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KJ7LNW / xnec2c

Xnec2c is a high-performance multi-threaded electromagnetic simulation package to model antenna near- and far-field radiation patterns for Linux and UNIX operating systems.
https://www.xnec2c.org/
GNU General Public License v3.0
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xnec2c still beeps #50

Closed polprog closed 5 months ago

polprog commented 6 months ago

Hi Eric,

First of all thank you for developing this great program! I finally found a modern NEC implementation that works on Linux.

I can see there is a commit from March 31 which fixes some of the beeps https://github.com/KJ7LNW/xnec2c/commit/7bba2b40b9ccaf27f7367d61c48588a141e0a1be

however I built Release v4.4.16, and it still keeps beeping when rotating the 3d views.

Is this some GTK "feature" or is it possible to disable it?

KJ7LNW commented 6 months ago

First of all thank you for developing this great program! I finally found a modern NEC implementation that works on Linux.

I am glad that you like it, however, I should note that this was actually written by Neoklis Kyriazis 5B4AZ. I am just now the maintainer for features and bug fixes because since Neoklis handed it off me to maintain.

I can see there is a commit from March 31 which fixes some of the beeps 7bba2b4

however I built Release v4.4.16, and it still keeps beeping when rotating the 3d views.

Is this some GTK "feature" or is it possible to disable it?

I do not know if the problem you are experiencing is the same or similar to the one in the commit that you referenced, but if it is, it is caused by a digit overflow in on of the information fields that the top of the window.

Can you send me the .NEC file which causes the issue, so I can try to reproduce it on my system?

polprog commented 6 months ago

I managed to reproduce it on the default starting dipole file (the one that is loaded with File > New). I noticed it happens when looking at the antenna parallel to the Z axis, which makes sense since the gain is listed as -999,9 dB.

untitled.nec.txt

This is the file that initially beeped a lot on 4.4.12 but on 4.4.16 beeps only when looking at the antenna from the y axis where there is -inf dB gain as well: yagi14MHz.nec.txt

KJ7LNW commented 6 months ago

in resources/xnec2c.glade:

Try chaning this 6 to 9 on line 11302:

https://github.com/KJ7LNW/xnec2c/blob/94c96d7f416883d6574c3385f4f6c4ad1f59d904/resources/xnec2c.glade#L11302

and also here, change 6 to 9 on line 12586:

https://github.com/KJ7LNW/xnec2c/blob/94c96d7f416883d6574c3385f4f6c4ad1f59d904/resources/xnec2c.glade#L12586

then make clean && make and try again. If that fixes it I'll do a release...

KJ7LNW commented 5 months ago

@polprog I think this is fixed, please test a965e7f in git and let me know if it still beeps.