Chapter 15. What is Kwas?

Kwas is designed as a replacement of the standart "File open" window in TEA, so do not expect much from this file navigator. You can open it in several windows, you can navigate through the directories, and for sure you can open files in the desired codepage and also view images. In the future I will extend the features list, but for now that is all.

You can use the text entry as the address line for the Kwas. Just type there the path that you need and press the Enter key. Pressing Backspace at the files list = directory up. Kwas has own menus.

15.1. Actions

From here you can:

Refresh Kwas - update the files list. Kwas can't do that automatically.

Generate the file list for Cinelerra. Cinerella is a poweful Linux movie studio that supports the non-linear video editing. Among other features, it can operate with the image sequences. To load them, you need to use a special "index" files (see below). You can create them directly from Cinerella, when Cinerella renders your movie into the sequence of images. But what if you already have such sequence (for example, produced by mplayer -vo png my_movie.avi) and want to load them into Cinerella? In this case, you have not the index/sequence file, and Cinerella can't open multiply files at the same time from the Load files dialog. So you need to create this index file by yourself.

Generate the file list for Cinelerra menu item generates the files list file in the Cinerella format. Such file contains some special fields (frame rate, image format, image dimensions etc.) and the list of files. This function works with all files in the current Kwas directory, so it must be clean from non-images, or else the function will work incorrectly.

TEA automatically cares about the format and dimensions of images. You need just to give the framerate and, optionally, the name of output file.

Get file info - get the information about a current (selected) file. Watch for the output in Logmemo. TEA uses the standart file utility for that.

Run with... - run the current (yes, selected) file with a desired program. Type a command into the Famous text entry. The command must be a program name only, i.e. just opera or xmms.

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