Image Selector

Single click on an entry in the list-box to view it.
Up and down arrows also scroll through images.

Clicking on one of buttons in the panel sets the 
corresponding parameter to the current image.
Some times, especially if an image needs to be converted, this
may take a few seconds.  Be careful of clicking too many times.


Clicking the third mouse button on a panel button 
calls up the history list for the corresponding parameter.

\nClicking with second mouse button (or shift-Mouse 1) 
loads the current value of the parameter
to the image tool (or color tool if its an color !).


\nThe 'Root' menu  displays the current image on the
root window in one of several
styles.  Currently , you must have 'xv' , or
'display' (from imagemagick) installed for this
to work. Options will be offered if fvwmconf can find
the appropriate program. Its not clear yet which works
better. You may want to install both.
If you use the stretch option for imagemagick to fill the 
screen with an image (not tiled) it seems to take on the
order of a minute with Linux 100 MHz.  This is far slower
than other image operations on this panel.
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\n If you try to put a gif, (or jpg or whatever) where fvwm2 wants an xpm,
FvwmConf will first look for an xpm with the same name
in the same directory.  If this fails, it will try to 
convert the gif to an xpm and leave the result in the same 
directory.


\nUse the 'directory menu' to browse a different directory.
Choose 'edit directory' from this menu to edit the list of
available directories.  When you are finished editing,
click on 'save' in the editing box, and then choose 
're-read directory list' from the 'directory' menu.

\n Sometimes an image can't be converted and the 
browsing area will remain
blank when it is selected.  It is still possible to use the
buttons to assign this image to some parameter.


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Perl-tk will display gifs or ppm's

Fvwm2 wants xpm's.

Currently we convert everything to ppm for display,
because a a couple of gifs produced by IM (none others that
I have seen) crashed perl-tk.  xv and IM view these gifs,
but not perl-tk. I don't know whose bug it is.  I'm still sorting 
all this out.

(read ppm for gif below)

If you click on an xpm in the list box, the
image selector first looks for a file in the
same directory with the same name except that
xpm is replaced by gif.  It uses this gif to let you 
view the image, but uses the xpm when sending a command
to fvwm.

If the gif file does not exist, the image selector trys to convert
the xpm (or other format) to a gif (puts in  ~/.fvwmconf/tmp/ ) for viewing . 
To convert, fvwmconf first looks for the program 'convert'
from imagemagick suite.  If that does not work, it looks for
the netpbm suite.  Both of these packages are more or less free for 
download. (imagemagick is more free).   It may be that 'convert' (imagemagick )
is more robust.  It handles more conversions currently.  If you only have netpbm, 
you can't use jpegs.





