> The problems... > - I must disable hardware scaling (-noscale) to get any reasonable image > to appear. The default gets me a static bright green image in place of the > video. Sounds like a S3 driver issue, xf86 4.2 might help. > - I cannot capture a still - I get a window labelled "Error" with a series > of messages similar to... > conv: 15 bit TrueColor (BE) => 8 bit static gray > ... > conv: 24 bit TrueColor (LE:bgr) => 24 bit TrueColor (BE:bgr) Sure it didn't work? The messages are some debug printf I forgot to remove. > A related set of questions... We like the basic interface of motv, but > would like to see... > - the control buttons on the video window (don't need the pop up window) No. It is done intentionally the way it currently is. There are lots of keyboard shortcuts for lazy people who don't want to popup the window all the time. > - [option to] remove the menu from the pop up window (so the users can't > screw up the configuration file) No. If you don't want them to modify the configuration, don't give them write access to the config file. You can also easily grey out the "save config" menu item by setting the sensitive ressource for the menu item to 0, even without modifying the source code: echo "control*menubar*save.sensitive: 0" | xrdb -merge > - a button added for the "Scales" (brightness, contrast...) > - a button added to auto scan the configured channels (to fill the images > in the pop up window) Easy, needs just a few lines of code. And a fancy pixmap for the button of course ... > Are these hard to do and where should I look in the code to implement them? > I also understand OpenMotif 2.2 implements tool tips (pop up text for > widgets) Are the buttons and/or windows subclassed from XmPrimitive or > XmGadget so they could use them? I wouldn't mind putting a couple weeks of > work on these kind of changes. You don't know Motif, do you? XmPrimitive is the very basic Motif widget, all but the Shell Widgets are subclassed from it. Tooltips for the buttons are pretty trivial to do with OpenMotif 2.2, just a few lines in the app-defaults. Gerd -- #define ENOCLUE 125 /* userland programmer induced race condition */
