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- Help For xbmbrowser, By Ashley Roll Version 1.0
-
- xbmbrowser is a program to let you easily manipulate Bitmap files.
-
- As you can see (on the window that you called this from), the window is
- divided into four areas, one with the three buttons, the next contains a text
- box that contains the current directory, you can use this to change the
- directory that is searched for bitmaps. The next one down contains the
- name of the last selected Bitmap, and the last contains any Bitmap files
- that the program found from the command line arguments.
-
- The fourth section is the most important. If you press and hold mouse button
- three down over one of the Bitmap images, then a small menu will popup with
- the following items:
-
- Rename - Use this to rename / move a Bitmap, you will get a requester asking
- for the new name, once you have typed the new name click on the
- [Ok] button, or [Cancel] to cancel the rename.
-
- Copy - Use this to copy a Bitmap, you will get a requester asking for the
- name to copy to, once you have typed the new name click on the
- [Ok] button, or [Cancel] to cancel the copy.
-
- Delete - Use this to Delete a Bitmap, USE WITH CAUTION!!!, you will get a
- requester asking if you wish to delete the Bitmap or not, click on
- the [Ok] button and the Bitmap will be removed, or [Cancel] to
- cancel the Delete.
-
- Edit - This will fire up a copy of your local Bitmap editor to edit the
- selected Bitmap. (If this is not selectable, then you can not
- do this - ask your system admin to fix it if you REALY want to use
- this feature).
-
- SetRoot - This will fire up a copy of the program to set the bitmap as the
- root window decoration.
-
- SetRoot Inv - Same as SetRoot, except that the bitmap is inverted (black =
- white, etc).
-
- If all the Bitmaps cannot fit into the bottom window, or you resize the
- window, a scroll bar will appear vertically on the left side of this section
- and you can use this to see the hidden Bitmaps.
-
- You can (of course) quit the program by pressing the [Quit] button. The
- [Rescan] button will rescan all the bitmaps in the current directory (as
- indicated by the text box), redrawing them, this can be used after you have
- edited a bitmap to show what it now looks like.
-
- Changing Directories:
-
- All that you have to do to change the current directory that the program
- searches, so to type the name of the new directory in the text box, and then
- press <Return>. If the directory doesn't exist or you can't access it, then
- the directory will remain unchanged.
-
- NOTE: you can use '.' and '..' and '~' in your path as the program changes
- directory relative to the current directory, also note that the window will
- always contain the FULL path of the current directory.
-
- Command line arguments:
-
- xbmbrowser [Toolkit Options] [Directory]
-
- Toolkit Options are normal Athena Widget set options like '-geometry'.
-
- Directory is a directory that you wish to look at. If it doesn't exit or
- you can't access it, then the program will default to the current directory.
-
- ******************************************************************************
- ** (c) Copyright Ashley Roll, 1992.
- ** xbmbrowser is Public Domain. However it, and all the code still belong to me.
- ** I do, however grant permission for you to freely copy and distribute it on
- ** the condition that this and all other copyright notices remain unchanged in
- ** all distributions.
- **
- ** This software comes with NO warranty whatsoever. I therefore take no
- ** responsibility for any damages, losses or problems that the program may
- ** cause.
- ******************************************************************************
-
- I must thank Anthony Thyssen for beta testing XbmBrowser and comming up with
- the original idea for it.
-
- I must also thank Chris McDonald of the University of Western Australia's
- Department of Computer Science, who provided me with a procedure to expand
- ~'s in a directory name.
-