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## GQradio 1.9.2 (February 24, 2005) ## ## ## ## Copyright (C) 1999 - 2005 by John Ellis. ## ## ## ## Use at your own risk! ## ## ## ## This software released under the GNU General Public License. ## ## Please read the COPYING file for more information. ##
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Author: John Ellis <johne@verizon.net>
e-mail: gqview@users.sourceforge.net
homepage: http://gqmpeg.sourceforge.net
======== Major sections of this document
- Requirements
- Notes and changes for this release
- Installation
- Description / Features
- Command Line options
- Skins
- Documentation (brief) [lists keyboard controls]
- Skin editing notes
- Credits
======== Requirements
GTK+ >= 2.4: ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk
one of the following:
(Linux) supported video4linux radio tuner (uses /dev/radio) (FreeBSD) supported bktr radio tuner (uses /dev/tuner)
======== Notes and changes for this release [section:release_notes]
- Changes
+ Now requires GTK+ >= 2.4
+ Add volume boost option for tuner drivers that initialize with
low volume.
- Update to dialogs and preferences to newer ui styles.
- Clean up build environment for latest autoconf tools and switch
to glib-gettext in place of direct use of gettext.
* Fix text size issues in skin engine.
* Fix skin menus and other popup window placement bugs.
- Notes
> Please see the Keyboard section below for description of keyboard
commands, and briefly how to set presets.
> Brief explanation of tuner options in preferences:
Device:
/dev device used to access radio card, default is /dev/radio.
Use frequency limits reported by driver:
When enabled, uses the frequency range that the radio driver claims to
support. When disabled (the default), 87.5 to 108.0 Mhz is used.
Frequency step:
The increment to use when tuning manually. Default is 10 (0.1 Mhz).
When this is set to 20 (0.2 Mhz), the odd numbers are used, in
alignment with US frequencies (x.0, x.3, x.5, etc.).
- Bugs
none ? --- doubt it! ;)
======== Installation
Compilation: ./configure ; make
- To build an RPM binary: on RedHat 6.x, 7.x use 'rpm -tb gqradio-x.x.x.tar.gz'. on RedHat 8.x use 'rpmbuild -tb gqradio-x.x.x.tar.gz'. on other rpm based distros, try rpm, if that fails try rpmbuild.
Installation: make install
Removal: make uninstall
======== Description / Features
GQradio interfaces with radio tuners through video4linux. Also supports FreeBSD bktr devices.
- Features
> Presets.
> Auto tune seeks to next available station.
> Auto setting of the preset list (auto scan).
> Skins.
======== Command Line options:
Please see gqradio --help for a list.
======== Skins
Uses SLIK (SimpLIstic sKin interface), to edit skins use the tilde '~' key.
Also see (Skin editing notes), below.
To specify a skin use the -skin:skinfile command line parameter (see above).
When specifying a default skin in the config dialog, the skin must reside
in HOME/.gqradio/skins
If valid, a new default skin is loaded when 'ok' or 'apply' is pressed.
======== Documentation (brief) [section:documentation]
Keyboard shortcuts:
[Space], N Seek up, using current seek mode.
[BackSpace], B Seek down, using current seek mode.
[Up] Seek up, first setting auto seek mode.
[Down] Seek down, first setting auto seek mode.
[Right] Seek up, first setting manual seek mode.
[Left] Seek down, first setting manual seek mode.
[PageUp] Select next available preset.
[PageDown] Select previous available preset.
[Enter] Toggle seek mode.
P Start preset selection, second press sets the
selection.
(Select the preset number by seeking up/down,
clicking the corresponding row in the preset list,
or by direct number entry format 0##, see below.)
[Escape] Cancel preset selection.
Delete Clear current preset.
[CTRL] Delete Clear preset list.
###.# (frequency entry) Jump to a frequency. If both decimal places
are entered change is instant, otherwise delays
one second (waiting for additional numbers, or
cancel by pressing Escape or any non-numerical
key). Invalid frequencies are ignored.
Example: Entering 99.5 will change the frequency
after one second, but entering 99.50 will change
it instantly.
0# (preset entry) Jump to a preset, if set. Entering three digits
(example 025) will change the preset immediately,
fewer will incur a one second delay, which works
the same as frequency entry, above.
Note: The leading zero is required, this is how
preset (versus frequency) entry is determined.
- Decrease volume.
+, = Increase volume.
[CTRL] - Adjust balance left.
[CTRL] +, [CTRL] = Adjust balance Right.
M Toggle mute.
E, [CTRL] E, [CTRL] P Open preset editor. O, [CTRL] O Open preferences.
I Iconify window.
Q Quit.
Q + [Shift] Quit without muting radio output.
[ Scrolls preset list up.
] Scrolls preset list down.
~ Start skin editor.
! Print skin debugging info.
======== Skin editing notes
Mouse control:
- The mouse in the skin editor uses these buttons in the skin display area:
- Button 1 : Same as in the normal main window (press buttons, etc.)
- Button 2 : Click to select widget, drag to move selected widget.
(when click to focus is disabled, widgets are always draggable)
- Button 3 : same as button 2
Extracting widget from other skins:
- To generate a list, and use widgets from any installed skin, press the 'extract' button from the 'add' dialog of the skin editor.
Editing / extracting widgets from the built-in (default) skin:
- To re-use widgets from the default skin, first load them into the skin editor and save them as a new skin. To make the new widgets show up in the widget lists, close the skin editor, then reopen it and press the extract button in the add dialog.
Skin toggle buttons:
- The "skin_toggle" button is a special case, the data field must contain
the filename of the skin the button is to switch to. If the data field is
left blank the default skin (skindata) will be loaded. If the filename
does not exist or is an invalid skin file, the button will do nothing.
(NOTE on naming of the skindata type files: the widget extraction feature only extracts widgets from skins defined by files matching the pattern "skindata*" but not including '.bak'. All others are ignored.)
Writing a skin to disk:
- When saving a skin, existing files are never overwritten: the skindata file is backed up with an extension of .bak or .bakXXX; graphics files will first be compared by file length and checksum, if they match it will keep the existing file, otherwise the new graphics file will be written to a new filename with an appended number increment (name_1.png).
Dial and Slider 'item link key':
- Dials and sliders have a 'Item link key' field, this is for use when you
want an item with that key to update with the dial or slider in such a
way that the dial/slider handle is drawn over top of the item. This is
useful for example when it is desired that a slider that controls the
volume also shows the volume level. If you want the item to be the only
thing displayed with slider-like interaction, the slider handle size can
be set to zero by specifying a trough length equal to the image
dimensions.
- Limits
- You can add as many widgets of the same function as you want and they will all work. (For example 100 play buttons :).
Invalid UI keys:
- If an invalid key is assigned to a widget, the widget will still load but be ignored when activated/operated.
Detailed skin specs:
- See SKIN-SPECS.
======== Thanks go to the following for fixes, additions, and patches:
- Translations
-
Eric Lassauge <lassauge@users.sourceforge.net> for French translation
Fixes, additions, and patches:
Serdar Ozler <sozler@sitebest.com>
for FreeBSD bktr support