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Pizzasgood · Posted: Fri 15 Jan 2010, 21:35 Post_subject:

@disciple: I assume you got the dimensions from JWM rather than measuring them yourself? It appears that JWM lies when it comes to retrovol (or maybe GTK is lying to JWM for some reason). If you try to resize it (manually) to the smallest possible, it will call that 0x0, even though it isn't really 0x0. The numbers it shows are indexed from there, which explains why you got numbers smaller than you expected.

Try making a screenshot and measuring it that way (take into account that the dimensions you choose set the interior, not including the window decorations).

@Barry: I implemented what you wanted tonight - it will only run one instance now, and any attempts to start a second instance will just pop up the main window and then return. I haven't made a new package yet, because I want to get the i18n stuff wrapped up first. I'll probably do that tomorrow. (Of course, what's done so far is already in the SVN.)

Plus I noticed some GTK error messages today that I want to sort out. But that might just be because the GTK installation in the Puppy I'm running right now is a little iffy.

Pizzasgood · Posted: Sun 17 Jan 2010, 01:03 Post_subject:

Version 0.2 is uploaded, see the first post.

Changes:

If you look at the program's --help output, you'll see a -show option. Ignore that. I've decided that I did it backwards. The -show behavior should have been the default, and there should be a -hide option instead. I'll correct that with version 0.3 whenever I get around to that. But I'm too tired to do anything else tonight. Worked all day on my side-job. Good pay though. Better than you cheapskates give me Wink

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Hmm, I need to give it a -v option sometime too.

Oh, and those errors I mentioned above only happen in that installation. I don't see them in a normal Puppy. Apparently in the version of GTK I'm using, one of the features I used has been deprecated. Will have to look into that for 0.3 also.

disciple · Posted: Sat 30 Jan 2010, 20:11 Post_subject:

disciple · Posted: Sat 30 Jan 2010, 20:25 Post_subject:

Interesting... it survives through `jwm -restart`, but unlike parcellite it doesn't survive if I exit jwm and then restart it (Without exiting X of course).

Pizzasgood · Posted: Sat 30 Jan 2010, 20:37 Post_subject:

Nope, no balance yet. That's one of the next things I intend to do (I have my rear speakers hooked up to an amp, so I adjust their balance there, but I have to do my front speakers through software. So I need this too.). I'll see if I can figure out the JWM survival thing sometime too.

For now though I'm taking a break from Retrovol and instead focusing on QwikLinK - a simple program to let me load programs onto the microcontroller boards we use in the "Embedded Microcontrollers" class I'm a TA for. I have two boards from there, but currently I have to use the Windows program QwikBug that a former student wrote to program them (or I could use the PicKit 2 programmer, which I believe there is Linux software for, but it would be simpler to just use the serial port like QwikBug). QwikBug requires the .net framework and I don't feel like loading that beast onto my already cramped laptop and trying to get it running in Wine. So I grabbed the source code and I'm working on reimplementing the basic features (not the debugging stuff) in C++. As of tonight I think I have it mostly done, it just needs some more safeguards. Except I don't have the chip with me to test with so I'll have to wait until Monday (visiting my grandparents this weekend.)

ajlec2000 · Joined: 27 Jan 2007 Posts: 50

I installed Retrovol in my Puppy 4.31 powered Dell Inspiron 1501. I made it the default volume control and thus far it works as advertised.

Thanks, my puppy is that much closer to perfection now.

Pizzasgood · Posted: Tue 09 Mar 2010, 01:43 Post_subject:

I have uploaded version 0.3. I fixed the bug Barry mentioned on his bug involving the slider showing up on the taskbar. I also added the -v/--version option. Finally, I replaced the -show option with -hide, and made the corresponding change in functionality - now running plain "retrovol" will pop up the main window in addition to creating the tray icon, while running it as "retrovol -hide" will only create the tray icon.

IMPORTANT: If upgrading, you will need to adjust your ~/.xinitrc file to use the -hide flag.

See the first post for download link.

Pizzasgood · Posted: Tue 09 Mar 2010, 20:15 Post_subject:

I found an error in the previous version (actually, in the last two or three version, but it didn't do anything until now), so I fixed it and uploaded a new version. The problem is I had an array that was 7 characters long that was supposed to hold a string that was 7 characters long - which sounds okay until you consider that strings need an extra character for the null terminator. So the null was being written over the next variable, causing things to break when you use the -bg and -hide options in conjunction.

So, I fixed that and uploaded version 0.4 today.

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7782 Location: qld

Hi Pizzasgood

I tried to install retrovol-4 in a tpup I made from the latest woof and it failed. It installs to /usr/local/bin and therefore the original that BK has in woof is found first ... it's in /usr/bin.
Also, the .desktop file needs some attention.... [show? Wink

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Cheers

Pizzasgood · Posted: Wed 10 Mar 2010, 23:37 Post_subject:

Not to sound cold and uncaring, but I didn't even include a .desktop file, so that isn't really my problem....

(Though I probably should start including one with the package now that I have the -hide option vs. -show option finalized.)

You generally should not install packages over other packages. Especially when the two packages come from different vendors! You should either uninstall the old version from the alternate vendor before installing a new one, or else wait for that vendor (aka Barry) to update their package to the new version.

Retrovol is open source (in fact, all of the code that I wrote for this has been released into the Public Domain - but not the eggtrayicon stuff I included, which is LGPL), so you can always recompile it to suit your own needs. To have it in /usr/bin you would just download and expand the source package, and run the following inside it:

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7782 Location: qld

hehe! Pizza's not so good cold!

Ok, understood, thanks for reply. (er, I should have checked the .pet)

Cheers

stu90 · Posted: Thu 11 Mar 2010, 13:38 Post_subject:

Thanks Pizzasgood - works a treat on Dpup. Smile

technosaurus · Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 4277

I kinda like cold pizza. Will test in 4.4-testing

ttuuxxx · Posted: Thu 11 Mar 2010, 14:31 Post_subject:

magerlab · Joined: 08 Jul 2007 Posts: 731

i use retrovol with xfce4 with tray in upper panel and slider appears in the center of the screen