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6 FvwmAnimate - the fvwm animate module
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9 Module FvwmAnimate [ModuleAlias]
10 FvwmAnimate can only be invoked by fvwm. Command line invocation of
12 the FvwmAnimate module will not work.
13 From within the .fvwm2rc file, FvwmAnimate is spawned as follows:
15 Module FvwmAnimate
17 or from within an fvwm pop-up menu:
19 DestroyMenu Module-Popup
21 AddToMenu Module-Popup "Modules" Title
22 + "Fvwm Animate Icons" Module FvwmAnimate ModuleAlias
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27 The FvwmAnimate module animates iconification and de-iconification or
28 on command. There are currently 6 different animation effects.
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32 FvwmAnimate must be invoked by the fvwm window manager. When invoked
33 with the OptionalName argument, the ModuleAlias is used to find config‐
34 uration commands, configuration files, and name the internally gener‐
35 ated menus and forms instead of "FvwmAnimate". During startup, FvwmAn‐
36 imate defines menus and forms for configuring and controlling FvwmAni‐
37 mate. The default menu name is "MenuFvwmAnimate" and the form name is
38 "FormFvwmAnimate". If the optional name is used, the menu would be
39 "Menu<ModuleAlias>" and the form would be "Form<ModuleAlias>".
40 Assuming you already had a builtin menu called "Module-Popup", you
42 could use FvwmAnimate by configuring it like this:
43 AddToFunc "StartFunction" "I" Module FvwmAnimate
45 AddToMenu "Module-Popup" "Control Animation" Popup MenuFvwmAnimate
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50 Since the pop up menu "MenuFvwmAnimate" allows complete control of the
51 FvwmAnimate module, you don't really have to know what any of the con‐
52 figuration commands are. This section describes them anyway.
53 FvwmAnimate gets configuration info from fvwm's module configuration
55 database (see fvwm(1), section MODULE COMMANDS). In addition, FvwmAni‐
56 mate reads the file $HOME/.FvwmAnimate, and accepts commands from fvwm
57 and its modules as it runs.
58 If ModuleAlias is used to start FvwmAnimate, the optional name is used
60 in all commands, messages, menus and forms generated by FvwmAnimate
61 and in the configuration file name. Unlike other fvwm modules, there
62 is little reason to use the optional name.
63 *FvwmAnimate: Color color
66 Tells FvwmAnimate what color to draw with. The color is
67 "XOR'ed" (exclusive ORed) onto the background. Depending on the
68 display type you are using, the effect this causes will vary.
69 Especially on 8-bit displays, it helps if the background is a
70 solid color. You have to experiment with this to see how it
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72 The default color is not really a color and can be entered as
74 "Black^White", or more simply "None". This is the same as the
75 default XOR mask used by fvwm for move and resize frames.
76 Other colors can be specified using standard X color notation.
78 Ie. color names like "LightBlue", or RGB values like "#FFFFFF".
79 *FvwmAnimate: Pixmap pixmap
82 Tells FvwmAnimate to use pixmap to draw with. This can be useful
83 if *FvwmAnimate: Color gives poor results.
84 *FvwmAnimate: Delay msecs
87 Tells FvwmAnimate how many milliseconds to sleep between frames
88 of animation.
89 *FvwmAnimate: Iterations iterations
92 Tells FvwmAnimate how many steps to break the animation into.
93 *FvwmAnimate: Twist twist
96 Tells FvwmAnimate how many revolutions to twist the iconifica‐
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98 *FvwmAnimate: Width width
101 Tells FvwmAnimate how wide a line to draw with. The default
102 width of 0 (zero) is a fast line of Width 1.
103 *FvwmAnimate: Effect mode
106 Tells FvwmAnimate which animation effect to use. Currently the
107 effects are: Frame, Lines, Flip, Turn, Zoom3D, Twist Random, and
108 None. None is normally set in the configuration file, in-case
109 FvwmAnimate is started automatically, but an individual user
110 doesn't want it running.
111 *FvwmAnimate: Stop
114 Tells FvwmAnimate to stop.
115 *FvwmAnimate: Save
118 Tells FvwmAnimate to save the current configuration in a file
119 named ".FvwmAnimate" in the users home directory. This same
120 file is read automatically by FvwmAnimate during startup.
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124 FvwmAnimate can be asked to produce an animation thru the "SendToMod‐
125 ule" command. The format of the command is:
126 SendToModule FvwmAnimate animate sx sy sw sh dx dy dw dh
128 The second word must match the name FvwmAnimate is started with. The 8
130 fields after animate must be numbers. The first 4 are for the source
131 (or starting) location of the animation. The last 4 are for the desti‐
132 nation of the animation. The 2 pairs of 4 numbers, represent rectan‐
133 gles. The first 2 numbers are the x and y location of the upper right
134 corner. The next 2 numbers are the width and height. One or more spa‐
135 ces can separate the fields in the command.
136 Modules can use the "SendToModule" command to animate "NoIcon" windows,
138 or you can think up your own ways to have all kinds of fun with this
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140 Additional available commands are: pause, play, push, pop and reset.
142 These may be space separated.
143 pause causes a module to not temporarily produce any animations. play
145 causes a module to produce an animation again. push stores the current
146 playing state for a future and pop restores it. reset removes all
147 stored states and sets playing on.
148 Suppose, we don't want to wait for all 40 xterms to be animated:
150 SendToModule FvwmAnimate pause
152 All (XTerm) Iconify on
153 And if we don't want to damage the current playing state, then:
155 SendToModule FvwmAnimate push pause
157 All (XTerm) Iconify on
158 SendToModule FvwmAnimate pop
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163 FvwmAnimate is based on the Animate module from Afterstep 1.5pre6.
164 Porting to fvwm and lots of other changes were done by Dan Espen
165 <despen@telcordia.com>. Below are the original author and acknowledg‐
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170 Alfredo Kengi Kojima <kojima@inf.ufrgs.br>
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174 These people have contributed to FvwmAnimate:
175 Kaj Groner <kajg@mindspring.com>
178 Twisty iconification, configuration file parsing, man page.
179 Frank Scheelen <scheelen@worldonline.nl>
1823rd Berkeley Distribution 05 September 2019 (2.6.9) FvwmAnimate(1)