Pad++ Reference Manual

Padwish Synopsis

padwish [options] [arg arg ...]

Valid options are:

-colormap colormap

: Specifies the colormap that padwish should use. If colormap is "new", then a private colormap is allocated for padwish, so images will look nicer (although on some systems you get a distracting flash when you move the pointer in and out of a PadDraw window and the global colormap is updated).

-display display

-geometry geometry

-help

-language

: Specifies what scripting language the top-level interpreter should use. Pad++ always supports Tcl, but can be compiled to use the Elk version of Scheme also. In addition, Pad++ provides a mechanism to support other interpreted scripting languages as well. Defaults to 'tcl'.

-name name

: Use name as the title to be displayed in the window, and as the name of the interpreter for send commands.

-norgb

: Force all images to be loaded without RGB data. This means that images will be stored with one byte per pixel instead of the normal 5 bytes per pixel. As a result, images will not be able to be dithered.

-sharedmemory

: Specifies if Pad++ should try and use X shared memory. Some machines (notably a particular Solaris 5.4 machine) crashes and the X server dies when Pad++ is used with shared memory, so it can be disabled if there is trouble. Defaults to 1 (true).

-sync

: Execute all X server commands synchronously, so that errors are reported immediately. This will result in much slower execution, but it is useful for debugging.

-visual visual

: Specifies the visual type that padwish should use. The valid visuals depend on the X server you are running on. Some common useful ones are "truecolor 24" and "truecolor 12", which specify 24 bit and 12 bit mode, respectively.

--

: Pass all remaining arguments through to the script's argv variable without interpreting them. This provides a mechanism for passing arguments such as -name to a script instead of having padwish interpret them.

Pad++ Reference Manual - 20 JUN 1997