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XBMBROWSER(1) General Commands Manual XBMBROWSER(1) NAME xbmbrowser - view and manage X bitmap and X pixmap files. SYNOPSIS xbmbrowser [ -options... ] [ directory ] DESCRIPTION xbmbrowser will show you all the bitmaps or pixmaps in the directory if it is specified otherwise it will look in the current directory. Note that if the program can not change directory to the directory in the command line it will exit and print an error message. Once started the User can change the directory being displayed by ei- ther • Editing the displayed current directory string on the main application window. • Selecting a directory from a popup menu, by pressing a mouse button over the displayed current directory string. This is the recommended method when you are moving around a directory tree that you know very well. • Clicking with the first (left-most) mouse button on a di- rectory file symbol. • Or even through one of the user configurable popup menu actions (See below). This is usfull to define a specific directory that you wish to change to regularly. This latest version of xbmbrowser will also display small symbols for all the other files and directories present in the displayed directory. These symbols can be turned of if desired either through command line options, resources, or interactivly within the program. You can perform a many different operations on bitmap (or pixmap) file that is being displayed, or even any of the other files in the current directory. These operations include, Rename, Copy, Delete, Edit and Set it as the background root window pattern. These operations are initialized from a default library configuration file "/usr/lib/X11/xbmbrowser/xbmbrowser.menu", or from the users own version of this file ".xbmbrowserrc" in the user's home directory. OPTIONS Xbmbrowser will take all the normal Xtoolkit options as well as the following command line options. All but the -cf option can also be turned on and off as and when required from an "Options" menu (middle button along the top of the main application window) or its default set via X resource. -cf "file" -config "file" Load the menu configuration from the given file instead of either the users rc file ".xbmbrowserrc" or the li- brary configuration file "/usr/lib/X11/xbmbrowser/xbm- browser.menu". -solid This controls the two different styles in which xbm- browser can display the icons. The first -solid option uses a solid background with the icons displayed in shaped windows. This option is generally only usful on color displays and is by default enabled if this is the case. You can override this automatic setting with the X resource below. Resource: XbmBrowser.solid_bgnd: True -stipple This other option is just the oppisite of the -solid op- tion above. Display a stipple (checker board grey pat- tern) as the background and display the icon images in boxed (un-shaped) windows. This option is the original default of xbmbrowser. It also produces a better display on monocrome displays and as such is automatically se- lected as the defult for such displays. You can override this automatic setting with the X resource below. Resource: XbmBrowser.solid_bgnd: False -(no)label Display (or not) the filenames under the icon or symbols shown. Resource: XbmBrowser.label_all: False -(no)iconsonly Only display (or not) the actual icons (bitmaps and pixmaps) found in the current directory. In other words do not display and file symbols for directories or other files found in the current directory. This option is pro- vided to allow the user to turn of the display of a large number of file symbols that can appear at times, and re- turn xbmbrowser back to the `older' version style. Resource: XbmBrowser.icons_only: False -(no)dir Display (or not) directory symbols for any sub-directo- ries found. The ".." directory symbol will also be re- moved. Resource: XbmBrowser.show_dir: True -(no)xpmbad Display (or not) any pixmaps which failed to load prop- erly. This Pixmaps usally couldn't be displayed as they were unable to allocate enough colors on the current dis- play. To display these, try quiting some other applica- tions, removing any root background image you may have on your display, or even delete or move other pixmaps in the current directory elsewhere. Resource: XbmBrowser.show_xpmbad: True -(no)other Display (or not) the other files found in the current di- rectory. As part of the attempt to load these files as icons for display, xbmbrowser has determined weather or not these files are either binary, plain text, or some other special file type. It will use an appropiate file symbol to show the user its findings. NOTE: Picture Im- age formats such as gif and jpeg will appear as binary files. Resource: XbmBrowser.show_other: False -(no)hidden Include in the display (or not) the UNIX hidden (or `dot') files found in the directory. Note that this only allows these hidden files to be shown, other options (above) may or may not permit these files to be visible. EG: hidden directories will not be visible in the display if either hidden files or directories are not visible. Resource: XbmBrowser.show_hidden: False -R or -recursive This option can slow xbmbrowser enormously. When it is turned on, initially by this command line option, or in- teractively through the "Options" menu, xbmbrowser will recursively scan and display all the files in the direc- tories under the current directory. This directory search can take a very very long and could result in sys- tem limitations crashing the program. As such this op- tion will be automatically turned off any time xbmbrowser successfully changes the current directory. Resource: XbmBrowser.recursive: False This option was provided at the request of Steve Kinzler to allow xbmbrowser to scan the directory tree structure of his ``picons'' collection (See SEE ALSO below). OTHER X RESOURCES Other than those associated with command line others the following re- sources are also available and usful in your .Xdefults or other re- source control files. XbmBrowser.shape_syms: True Controls if the non-icon file symbols are to be displayed in a shaped window or as a boxed symbol. Note that by de- fault this is initially set equal to the value of the XbmBrowser.solid_bgnd: (see -solid commandline option above) unless overridden by your own resource setting (IE: True on color displays False on monocrome). XbmBrowser.label_syms: False Label only the file symbols. The XbmBrowser.label_all: resource (see -(no)label commandline option above) can override this value if it is True. XbmBrowser.sym_foreground: black XbmBrowser.sym_background: wheat The colors to display file symbols and their labels on the display. XbmBrowser.icon_foreground: black XbmBrowser.icon_background: white The colors to display bitmap icons and their labels with. XbmBrowser.icon_transparent: linen This is the color used for the transparent (or `None') pixmap color when not using a solid background color (and shaped windows). It is also the color of the pixmaps la- bel. XbmBrowser.solid_background: grey The the solid background color to use. XbmBrowser.stipple_background: pale green This is a very light color to use with the foreground color (usally black) when creating the background stipple pattern. This color is usally not used as the stipple pattern is normall used on monocrome display only. ASIDE: The forground color of the stipple pattern cur- rently is set to whatever the border color of the iconbox widget is set to. If you don't want it to be black you can change it with the resource XbmBrowserconbox.border- Color. In a future release you may be able to set this color and maybe the stripple pattern used, just like the other resources above. Suggestion. Try setting the icon_background, icon_transparent, and solid_background all to the same color such as grey. This will make the background color of the bitmaps and pixmap labels the same as the solid background color, thus removing the square boxes around these items. This is more like a typical WWW client display. Unfortunately if you do this, you will loose the visual information on the true bitmap sizes being used. You can temporarally regain this in- formation however by switching to stripple (non-solid_background) mode which turns off shaped windows. XbmBrowser*IconLabel.labelTop: True This resource will cause xbmbrowser to place any and all Labels above the images displayed instead of below as is normal. This is not strictly a xbmbrowser resource but one for the unusal Widget it uses to handle the display of the Bitmaps and Pixmaps. USER CONFIGURABLE MENUS This version of xbmbrowser has a user definable menu of commands that can be executed for displayed bitmaps pixmaps and other files. There is a default library configuration file, usally located in "/usr/lib/X11/xbmbrowser/xbmbrowser.menu" (check with your system pro- grammers) or you can have your own config file called ".xbmbrowserrc" in your home directory. I suggest that you copy the library file "/usr/lib/X11/xbmbrowser/xbmbrowser.menu.tut", which is a heavily com- mented version of the default library file, to your home directory as ".xbmbrowserrc" and then edit it to suit your needs. Each line of this file consists of either :- # comment line A comment line which is completely ignored. Comments can appear at the end of any (non-continued) line. menu "main" menu "main" "Main Menu" Add any new menu elements (see below) to this menu. Only specific menus are allowed and will be titled using the optional second argument. The menus, if defined, will be poped up when the appropriate mouse button is pressed on a displayed icon ot file symbol. If the menu is not de- fined the program will `beep' the user. The following are the menus which the user may define:- "main" The menu which pops up when the "Main Menu" button when pressed. Generally this is used a menu of directories the user likes to visit. Warning no file is selected by the user when using this menu so some substitu- tions may be empty strings. (See Substi- tions below) Note: this menu must be defined. If it isn't a warning message is printed and a default menu containing only a QUIT button is created. "global" A menu of global actions which will popup when either the first two mouse buttons are are pressed on a displayed icon or file symbol or any mouse button on the back- ground of the icon area. If the pointer was not over a displayed icon or symbol, no filename, basename, or suffix will be de- fined. (See function `selected()' below) NOTE: If button 1 (leftmost or select mouse button) is pressed on a directory symbol, the browser will automaticaly decend into that directory, instead of poping up the global menu. "bitmap" Display this menu on any displayed X bitmap with the right most (menu) mouse button. "pixmap" As "bitmap", but for any X pixmap (or pixmap which failed to load). "directory" Same again, but for directory symbols. "other" Again, for any other file symbol (text, bi- nary..). line Just insert a line into the menu at this point. item "Delete" confirm("Really delete %f?") \ exec("rm '%f'") rescan() Insert a item into the current menu which will execute the sequence builtin functions (see below). As it is posible for a very long sequences to be required for some menu items, the menu lines can be continued onto the next line by `backslashing' (\) the return character at the end of the line. Each function may or may-not require some quoted string arguments, with the quote being either single or double, allowing the other quote to be used freely with the argu- ment. Each argument can contain any number of macro substitu- tions which consist of a % character followed by a single letter. A percent character can be substituted with %%. The following builtin functions can be called (in sequence) from a menu item :- quit() Exit xbmbrowser. Need I say more? scan() Completely scan the current directory (Again). (See res- can() below) rescan() Do a fast rescan of the current directory. Note that X pixmaps which failed to load will NOT be loaded by this command, to avoid slowing the rescan() in a directory of unloadable X pixmaps. This occurance is actually common on a directory of pixmaps which do not follow a standard color table. To attempt to load these Pixmaps use either a full scan(), touch the failed pixmap when more colors are available, or convert that pixmap to a common color ta- ble. Alturnatively, display the pixmap in a secondary image viewer (converting it if nessary). chdir("dir") Change directory to the given directory. If the directory change succeeds xbmbrowser will automatically do a full scan() of the new directory. If this fails, no scan() will be performed. exec("command") Execute the given bourne shell command. Any output by the command executed will be to the standard output (or er- ror) of xbmbrowser, usally the users terminal. confirm("prompt") Ask the user to confirm action before continuing the next function. If the user presses ``cancal'' the current function sequence will be aborted. input("prompt","initial") Ask the user for some input, giving the user the "ini- tial" string to start with. The result entered by the user will be returned in the substitution marco %i (see below). The ``cancal'' button will abort the current function sequence. selected() If the user pointer was NOT over an icon or symbol then abort the current sequence with a popup error. This function is not usful in anything but the "global" menu, as in the other menus an icon is either always or never selected. The following are substition macros can be used within function argu- ments :- %d The current directory of the browser. Note that a the directory seperator '/' have been pre-added to this sub- stition macro. %f The filename of the icon (or file) selected by the user. %b The basename (suffix removed) of the current filename. %s The suffix of the current filename EG: ".xbm" %i The users input of the last input() function (see above). %h The Users Home directory (do NOT use ~ in an argument for this). Note that a the directory seperator '/' have been pre-added to this substition macro. %D The Initial Startup Directory. This is either the direc- tory XbmBrowser was started in or was given to it as an command line argument. %% Substitutes a percent character, just in case you really do need it. NOTE: The full path of a selected file is %d%f. Also %b%s exactly the same as the %f substition. WARNING: the substitution macros %f, %b and %s will be an empty string if the users pointer was not over a display icon or file symbol. See the function selected() above. FILES ~/.xbmbrowserrc User's own menu configuration file. /usr/lib/X11/xbmbrowser/xbmbrowser.menu Default library menu configuration file. /usr/lib/X11/xbmbrowser/xbmbrowser.menu.tut Verbose menu configuration file (with extra examples). Note: Some of these files may be installed in different directories on your system, for example /usr/X11R6/lib/X11. If you are not sure, please contact your local system programmers. SEE ALSO ``Anthony's Icon Library'' This is a HUGE library of bitmaps and pixmaps of `icon' size. The library is sorted into sections based of size and intended usage of the icons. All the pixmaps in the library follow a standard color table of 30 colors so you can use and view as many pixmaps as you require. It is for the coordination of this library that xbmbrowser was originally developed. The coordinator is Anthony Thyssen, and the last release is downloadable from ftp://ftp.cit.gu.edu.au/pub/AIcons/ or di- rectly accessable (between releases) via the World Wide Web on http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~anthony/icons. Also in this library (under support) is a collection of scripts and a xbmbrowser config (rc) file to provided a much expanded set of menus for icon handling and conversion. ``PIcons'' bitmap collection A collection of bitmaps and pixmaps all 48 by 48 pixels in size. This collection is designed for use by mail and news readers, and as such is sorted into: news groups, logos, and people sorted by email address. The icons is stored in a large direc- tory structure making the recursive scan feature a must for viewing this collection. The coordinator is Steve Kinzler kinzler@cs.indiana.edu and the collection is downloadable from ftp://ftp.cs.indi- ana.edu/pub/faces/picons/ or on the WWW from http://www.cs.indi- ana.edu/picons/ftp/index.html . AUTHORS Original Programmer Ashley Roll -- ash@cit.gu.edu.au ( upto version 3.4 ) Current Programmer & Original Idea for Program Anthony Thyssen -- anthony@cit.gu.edu.au ( version 4.0 and later ) 26 May 1995 XBMBROWSER(1)
NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | OPTIONS | OTHER X RESOURCES | USER CONFIGURABLE MENUS | FILES | SEE ALSO | AUTHORS
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