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[WarMocK]

Hello dear desktop tweakers,
if you like a fancy startmenu or want to add some simple widgets without a truckload of dependencies then I probably got something for you.

What Navig8or is:
By default, Navig80r is a borderless, pseudo-transparent window which may be populated with a few widgets specified in a config file.

Currently available widgets are:
1) Shaped button
2) label
3) image
4) launch entry field
5) application menu
6) monitoring display
7) drop target

What the widgets do:
1) Shaped buttons launch an application linked to them when clicked. If they are not set as persistent, the Navig8or window they are attached to will be closed.
2) Labels are good for displaying some text - what else?
3) Images - well - no explanation necessary I think
4) Type the name of your application into the field, press ENTER, and your program starts
5) Basically what you already know from JWM's startmenu, but as a widget ready to be added to your customized menu window.
6) The monitoring display reads the content of the text file linked to it (once per second), and displays that content.
7) The drop target retrieves the drop item's full path and launches an associated program with it.

How to control them:
Navig8or is started with the following parameters:

"/usr/local/navig8or $POSX $POSY /path/to/config"

$POSX and $POSY determine the position of the top left corner of the windoe on the screen

The Config file:
Every widget to be displayed requires a little one-liner in the config file, among with a few important window settings. The config options are:

<property>unfocusquit</property>
--- Closes the window whenever it loses the focus

<geometry>x=xSize y=ySize</geometry>
--- Determines the window's width and height

<showimage>Image="/path/to/image" x=xPos y=yPos</showimage>
--- Displays the linked image at position xPos yPos (from the top left of the navig8or window)

<shapedbutton>Image="/path/to/image" x=xPos y=yPos command="/path/to/application" Kill=yes/no</shapedbutton>
--- A button shaped according to the mask generated from the icon dusplayed on it, which starts the linked application when pressed. The Kill option may be yes or no. If it's yes the application window will be closed if the button is pressed, otherwise it will stay open and active afterwards.

<showmenu>x=xPos y=yPos</showmenu>
--- Shows the main menu

<showentry>x=xPos y=yPos</showentry>
--- Shows the launcher entry

<showlabel>Text="Insert text here" x=xPos y=yPos color=whatever</showlabel>
--- Shows a text at the specified position in the specified color

<monitor>File="/path/to/textfile" x=xPos y=yPos color=whatever</monitor>
--- Constantly monitors the content of the linked textfile and displays it as a text in the specified color.

<droptarget>Image="/path/to/file" x=xPos y=yPos color=whatever command="application"</droptarget>
--- Provides a drop target widget which launches programs and associates the dropped file to it.

EXAMPLES:
The screenshot shows a few things you can do with Navig8or, I included a few configs in the dotpet (the ones that made most sense).

- Monitoring widgets (top right)
--->image + monitoring from a text file in /root/.navig8or/datafiles

- Menu (bottom left)
---> included everything except for monitoring stuff. The window will close if it loses focus, after a certain amount of time, and when one of the widgets included is triggered

- Launcher icons (bottom left, behind the menu, and bottom right)
---> shaped button: the left one starts the menu, the right one immediately opens the TinyLogout window I included in the package

Stuff I didn't include:
- Wallpaper "widget"
--->simply a window scaled up to fit the screen with a scaled version of the wallpaper I wanted to use. My pic2root program is more effective, however, so I didn't bother including this one in the mix.

- Dock (top)
---> an image with lots of shaped buttons on it. Just a copy of my wbar launcher, no need to include it either.


TODO:
- try to improve it's speed


Well, so much from my side. Any suggestions and feedback is very welcome. Have fun with it, I did already.

UPDATE:
Repacked the dotpet as I forgot to remove the theme skelleton I used for the older version.

[r1tz]

I cant believe no one replied to this yet!

This is very initersting

This uses pesodo transparency, which fails epic-ly on my dwm. Try to spot navig8tor
EDIT:IMG REMOVED

Anyways. nice

[harii4]

This looks great.
i planning to use it with yeahwm on White Fang (3.01) but i get an error:

[WarMocK]

harii4:
You'll find working configs in /root/.navig8or. I'll still need to clean up a few things and repack the dotpet, as I changed a lot of features and options after packing that backup config into /usr/local.
As for your error: I compiled navig8or on Puppy 5.00, which has a newer version of GTK. You either need to update GTK on your machine, or install a newer version of Puppy Linux. You could also try to recompile navig8or (the sourcecode's included, after all), but I have my doubts it'll fix the lack of a feature.

[harii4]

Thanks WarMocK
Did you compiled Logout-1.2.pet on Puppy 5.00 as well?
Because i installed the Logout-1.2.pet and now it works.
What icon set used with logout?

I have not had time to play with navig8or yet.

Keep up the good work.

[WarMocK]

Yep, compiled it on 5.00 as well. And you can find the icons used under /usr/local/logout/icons if you want to edit them, as well as the header/footer image and the image for the canvel button.

[seaside]

WarMock,

Really fascinating. A tree menu system, launcher, panel maker, wallpaperer, and conky - all rolled into one lightweight package. Nicely done.

A few comments:

I tested it on pup431 and found the following-

The default "config" would not run the left hand file commands unless the " Kill=" were added to the <shapedbutton> as follows;

[WarMocK]

seaside:

Yes, the menu and the entry aren't persistent - yet. I probably will change that pretty soon, though. I wanted to tweak the entry widget anyway, so I can use it in conjunction with shaped button widgets as well.
Also, if you add the line "<property>unfocusquit</property>" to your config, the application will close as soon as the window loses the focus. If you change the line to something else, the window will stay even if it loses the focus.
And yes, the "kill=yes/no" option is mandatory, otherwise parsing the commands won't work properly. The package needs to be cleaned up a bit, I might have mixed a few incompatible configs by accident.

[harii4]

Any new updates

[WarMocK]

Not yet, but I'm working on it. Prob is I still gotta finish my work on two Desktop Environments atm, and I'm writing a simulator for a browser game as well.
Turned out that drag&drop fields are far more complicated than I expected, but I'm certain that I'll crack that nut as well.

[musher0]

Interesting....

[sc0ttman]

is this still being worked on? if not, is the source anywhere? I'm sure a few people would like to play with this further... It seems a little buggy out of the box, yet to play with it seriously, but very nice indeed!

[WarMocK]

[harii4]

[WarMocK]