Re: [Hamfax-devel] HamFax can't open sample file

[Christof S. <csc...@us...>]

On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 04:46:29PM +0100, Guillaume Sueur wrote:
> Thanks for your reply Christof. I've installed hamfax from source on
> Debian Squeeze and Ubuntu 10.04. On both environments, I've got the
> same "can't open file" message.
> the checksum is OK, and I can hear the nice music the file gives
> throught mplayer.
> I thought maybe some dependancy was missing, making the software
> unable to open the file.
> 
> I'm going to try in another environment.

Hi Guillaume,

audio files in hamfax are handled through the libaudiofile library. You should
see a dependency on the compiled binary. Since you get the "can't open file
message" this should be the case.

$ ldd /usr/bin/hamfax  | grep audiofile
	libaudiofile.so.1 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libaudiofile.so.1 (0x005c7000)

I just extended the code to also include the error message from the
libaudiofile library in the GUI dialog. You can get the latest code here:

git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/hamfax/code hamfax-code

(The location of the git repository changed and the webpage has not yet been
updated.)

Alternatively, you could remove the line afSetErrorHandler(0); from
src/File.cpp. You should then see the error from libaudiofile on the stderr
output in a terminal window.

73

Christof