WMScope
Windowmaker Sound Scope Applet
WMscope is a little applet that docks under WindowMaker or Afterstep and will display audio data or a neat sine wave type thingy. its great to impress random people who dont know any better. wmscope has been tested on Linux, Solaris x86, Solaris sparc, and FreeBSD. it should also work on any POSIX system with X11 support that uses a sound driver similar to one of the above systems.
NOTE:
as of right now wmscope will open the audio device itself to read in data. due to the way OSS uses the sound card only one application may do this at one time meaning wmscope wil not work with other programs that expect full access to the sound device such as most mp3 and mod players.. it should work with MIDI/ CD in / or LINE in though. there might be ways to get around this useing esound or something similar which multiplexes the sound device or ALSA the proposed new linux sound architechure.
Oct 4 1999 Update: release 3 is out. changes include
- rewrote in ANSI C rather than C++ (this is a feature, trust me.)
- much more portable, now works on solaris
- less wasteful of X resourses, 2 less colormap entries, 1 less window and 1 less GC
- saves 54(!!) colormap entries when docked in windowmaker.
- many, many general code cleanups.
- added CREDITS file
- added the ability to compile without sound support. for whatever reasons you might have to do this.
- updated documentation.
- properly handles short reads.
- more robust in areas.
- fixed bug where background may get overwritten due to improper clipmask.
Jan 23 1999 Update: release 2 is out. get it below. changes include
- Optimized some X calls.
- checked more sound card error conditions
- uses XDrawLines instead of XDrawPoint now..
- now has an '-a' switch to modify the amplitude.
- now has a '-c' switch to read data from stdin.
you can grab release 3 here: wmscope-3.tar.gz
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