Usplash

[Matthew Garrett]

I've put a first attempt at usplash at 
http://www.srcf.ucam.org/tmp/usplash-0.1.tar.gz . Yes, I know the 
graphics suck.

Usplash is a userspace bootsplash application built on top of the BOGL
framebuffer library.

BUILDING

make

INSTALLING

make install
mkdir /var/lib/usplash
mkfifo /var/lib/usplash/usplash_fifo

USING

usplash will launch the bootsplash program.

usplash_write will write commands to the usplash fifo. It uses
non-blocking IO, so will exit with an exit code of 0 if usplash is not
running. The format of a usplash command is COMMAND argument - this
must be passed as a single argument to usplash_write.

Current commands are:

TEXT - prints a line of text
STATUS - prints text in the right hand side of the usplash screen
SUCCESS - prints green text in the right hand side of the usplash screen
FAILURE - prints red text in the right hand side of the usplash screen
PROGRESS - prints a progress bar of argument percent
CLEAR - clears the text area
QUIT - quits the usplash daemon

EXAMPLES

usplash_write "TEXT hello usplash!" - will write "hello usplash!" to
the text area 

usplash_write "TEXT test" - will scroll "hello usplash!" upwards and
print "test" in its original location

usplash_write "STATUS yes" - will print "yes" to the right of "test"

usplash_write "PROGRESS 20" - will print a progress bar that covers
20% of the progress bar area

usplash_write "QUIT " - will quit the daemon

BUGS

bogl_move is not yet implemented for non-VGA16 framebuffers, so
usplash will not work on PPC yet

The QUIT command requires a trailing space

The graphics look dreadful

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org