Re: [Zapping-misc] Zapping: bugs and thanks!

[Nate D. <na...@ks...>]

> > 2) Occasionally while entering a channel name into Zapping's channel editor,
> > the program crashes.  I haven't figured out a pattern to this one yet.
> A backtrace would be nice... doesn't the "This program crashed, send a
> bug report" dialog appear? [Perhaps you need Bug-buddy for this to work,
> dunno].

I'll be glad to provide one, however the Crash dialog never appears (I do have
a full Gnome install).  Might just be a simple configuration editor causing it
to not appear.

> > 3) In order to change the overlay color I had to tell Zapping to go into
> > "Capture" mode, and then back to "Preview" mode.  Otherwise, the 'choose
> > color' icon does not appear in the "Controls" dialog.
> That's because in capture mode we own the backend scaler port, so we can
> access its controls (in particular the chromakey or overlay color).
> In overlay mode we don't grab the port, so we shouldn't (and typically
> cannot) mess with its settings.
> Actually, what you are seeing it's just a kewl bug :-) The "overlay
> color" control shouldn't be available in overlay mode, never. I fixed
> this some weeks ago, btw.

Actually I quite like it - on my card leaving it at the default (black?)
causes the menu entries to take on the colors of the video they are
overlaying, when I right click.

Not sure how that happened mind you, but taking advantage of this
bug^H^H^Hfeature I changed the color to a shade of purple and the problem went
away.

> > Is there a way to change channels by entering a number, on the keypad perhaps?
> You can assign keyboard shortcuts in the channel editor, but I plan to
> improve this in the future.

Right, in the meantime I'll do this.

> > XawTV allows this as well as a number of other handy keypresses (Q to quit,
> Ctrl-Q, which is the standard in Gnome.

Found that one by accident :)  Shows how long it's been since I used Gnome
regularly (I really must get more memory in this box :)

> > Cursor up/down to surf,
> PgUp/PgDown. Up/Down are reserved for TTX mode, so we couldn't pick up
> the simpler ones :-)

Bah!  Of all the keys I tried I didn't think to try Page up/down! :)

hehe - much better.

(RTFM, right? :)

> > Left/right to fine-tune,
> Used for TTX again. Could you please provide an example when you need
> "live" fine tuning? (sp. considering that these changes will be lost
> when you switch channels).

Actually that was just an example, however I have used the feature once or
twice to clear up slightly off-frequency channels.

It was also helpful in picking up a channel that is actually "trapped out"
from my cable line :)

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