WorkShop Visual Capture Interface Operation

## WorkShop Visual Capture - Interface Operation

When you select "WorkShop Visual Capture" from the "Tools" menu, a dialog is displayed allowing you to type the name of a Motif application to be captured into the text box next to the button labelled "Executable". There is also a text box allowing you to type any arguments you wish passed to the application.

When you press "OK", your PATH is searched for the named executable. If it is not in your PATH or you are not sure where to find the application, press the button labelled "Executable". This produces a file selection box containing an extra scrolled list. Each item in this list is a directory from your PATH. This path list, however, is the path set up for you when you run visu and may contain some extra directories required by visu. When you exit visu your PATH is the same as it was before running the application. When you select a directory from this list, any files in the directory are shown in the scrolled list labelled "Files".

The WorkShop Visual Capture dialog has two pages - one for WorkShop Visual Capture and one for WorkShop Visual Replay. You can change between pages by selecting from the option menu labelled "Page".

The text box labelled "Shell" displays the name of the currently active Shell of the associated application. This is the Shell which will be captured when you press the "Capture" button. Beneath the "Capture" button is an area containing the captured Shells in the current directory.

### Saving and Accessing Captured Shells

By default, when applications are captured, files containing the captured design are created in a temporary unnamed directory.

WARNING - The temporary directory (and its contents) is removed automatically when you exit the application. If you want to preserve your work, you should be working in a named directory (see below).

Use the "Directory" menu to create a new directory, open an existing one or save the current directory under a different name.

When you open a directory, the dialog displays any captured designs that are contained there. Captured designs are displayed as "thumbnail" sketches of the Shell which was captured.

Using the operations in the "Edit" menu, designs can be cut or copied from one directory and pasted into another. The "Clear" command deletes the selected design.

By convention, captured designs are given the filename suffix ".xd", although this suffix is not displayed in the WorkShop Visual Capture dialog.

Note - A corresponding ".xpm" file is created with each captured dialog design. This is to enable WorkShop Visual Capture to display the "thumbnail" sketch of the dialog in the window holding area.

See also:

- WorkShop Visual Capture Overview
- WorkShop Visual Capture Command Line Operation
- WorkShop Visual Capture Tutorial
- WorkShop Visual Capture Tips and Hints