Free how to write a letter of reference software for linux

Objective Modula-2 programming language is a hybrid between Smalltalk and Modula-2 based on the object model and runtime of Objective-C.
The design is an example how native Cocoa/GNUstep support can be added to static imperative programming languages without implementing a bridge.
Objective Modula-2s scope encompasses the design of the Objective Modula-2 programming language and the implementation of a compiler to implement it. The initial compiler will generate Objective-C source code.
Enhancements:
- This code is used to verify ideas and concepts which come up in the course of defining the language.
- It is in an early stage, incomplete and subject to frequent changes.

Linux Letters and Numbers project is an educational childrens game for linux.
Linux Letters and Number is a fun and educational learning game intended for children 2 and up.
It helps children learn or improve their letters, numbers, spelling, and vocabulary skills through the use of interesting pictures.
It also helps them develop important computer skills too.
It is written in C using the GTK and GDK_Imlib libraries.
Main features:
- Extensible - add new images yourself without having to make changes to the program. With support for gdk_imlib, you can now use common image formats, including common formats like gif, jpeg, xpm, png, and tiff.
- Dynamic - each letter or number can be represented by numerous pictures, each being displayed randomly.
- Flexible - you can even have more than one picture for a given word, by using a simple versioning scheme (ie Apple.1.xpm, Apple.2.xpm)
- Interesting - because you can change the game, its different every time!

Leter Hunt is a Seven Day Roguelike game. The original idea came from a discussion at the end of the 2005 7DRL challenge with Antoine, the author of Guild.
Main features:
- Spell words by capturing your foes in the correct order to earn points and powerups.
- Fifty-two letters to capture, many with their own personalities or unique abilities.
- Power-up based character advancement. Rather than gaining experience or levels, you just gain powerups that can wear off. Advancement is not permament.
- Open-ended game - there is no final boss or win condition. Your goal is to get as many points as possible before attrition or increasingly difficult enemies take you down.
- Extremely tactical combat. There is no randomness in combat. You always hit and always do full damage. This means that careful placement is the difference between success and failure.
- Turn based action, as is normal for a roguelike.
- User editable wordlist: The list of valid words is a plain text file that can be added to or replaced. Creature frequency is calculated from letter frequency in the wordlist file.
Enhancements:
- Various niggly bugs fixed, including the crash on walk.

RTF::Writer is a Perl module for generating documents in Rich Text Format.

SYNOPSIS

use RTF::Writer;
my $rtf = RTF::Writer->new_to_file("greetings.rtf");
$rtf->prolog( title => "Greetings, hyoomon" );
$rtf->number_pages;
$rtf->paragraph(
fs40bi, # 20pt, bold, italic
"Hi there!"
);
$rtf->close;

This module is a class; an object belonging to this class acts like an output filehandle, and calling methods on it causes RTF text to be written.
Incidentally, this module also exports a few useful functions, upon request.

METHODS

$h = RTF::Writer->new_to_file($filename);

This creates a new RTF output stream object, such that sending text to this object will write to the filespec given. This is basically a wrapper around new_to_handle. If opening a write-handle to $filename fails (or if $filename is undef or zero-length), then a fatal error results.

$h = RTF::Writer->new_to_handle(*FILEHANDLE);

This creates a new RTF output stream object, such that sending text to this object will write to the filehandle given. The filehandle can be a glob (*FH) or a filehandle object (*FH{IO} or the value from IO::File->new(...)).

$h = RTF::Writer->new_to_string($string);

This creates a new RTF output stream object, such that sending text to this object will append to the string that youve passed a reference to.

$h->print(...);

This is the basic method for writing text to an RTF stream. This takes a list of items. Each item is either:
a plain string, like "foon"

In this case, the value is imputed to be a plaintext string, and an rtf-escaped version of it is written. For example "StuffnttUmmmn" causes Stuffline tab tab Ummline to be written. See rtfesc(x) for further details of escaping.

a scalar-reference, like ul

In this case, the value is imputed to be a reference to already escaped text. This is the basic way to emit RTF codes. Text passed this way will be written without any additional escaping.

Unless $RTF::Writer::AUTO_NL (normally on) has been turned off, the item written will be followed with a (presumably harmless) newline character to delimit any code in there from any following text, if the last character of this string is a digit or a lowercase letter. This is so that (i, "foo!") emits i[newline]foo! (which does what you expected), instead of ifoo!, which looks like an RTF command "ifoo" followed by a plaintext "!".

an array-reference, like [ ul, foo ]

This emits an open-brace "{", as RTF uses for opening "groups" (generally for delimiting the effects of character-formatting commands like ul, or a few formatting commands like footnote); then it emits the items in the referred-to array; and then emits a closing "}". I intend this to be useful is making sure that you dont emit more open-braces than close-braces, since that usually makes RTF readers immediately reject such a file.

You can nest these array-references, like:

$h->print(
col2,
[ pard,
"It is now ",
[ f1,
scalar(localtime), " local, or ",
scalar(gmtime), " GMT.",
],
" -- if youre ",
[ i,
"keeping track.",
],
],
parpage,
);

The return value of the print() method is currently always the value 1, although this may change.

$h->prolog(...);

This writes an RTF prolog to $h. You are free to make your own prolog using just $h->print(...your own code...), but I find in easier to automate this task, particularly with some sane defaults.

Since emitting a prolog opens a "{"-group, calling $h->prolog(...) sets a flag in $h so that when you call $h->close(), a closing "}" will automatically be written before the stream object is actually closed.

The options to the prolog() method are passed as a list of keys and values, for controlling the contents of the prolog written. The options are listed below, roughly with the most important options first.

(Be careful with the spelling of these options. Some are rather odd, because they are (mostly) based on the name of the relevent RTF command, and a systematic naming scheme for commands is one thing you wont find in RTF!)
fonts => [ "Courier New", "Georgia", "Whatever"...],

This value is for the font table section of the prolog. If the value is an arrayref, then it should be a reference to an array whose items should be either plain text strings, like "Times Roman", which are the (unescaped) names of fonts; or the items in the array can be scalar-refs, for expressing RTF control words along with the (escaped) font name, as in froman Times New Roman. If the value of the "fonts" parameters is a scalar ref, then it is taken to be a reference to code of your own that expresses the whole font table. If you dont specify a value for the "font" option, then you get a font table with one entry, "Times New Roman".
You should be sure to declare all fonts that you switch to in your document (as with f3, to change the current font to whats declared in entry 3 (counting from 0) in the font table).

deff => INTEGER,

This is for expressing, in the prolog, the font-table number of the default font for this document. The default is 0, which is an often useful value.

colors => [ undef, [0,142,252], [200,32,0], ...],

This value is for expressing the documents (generally optional) color table. If you stipulate an arrayref value, then each item of the array should be either an RGB triplet expressed as an arrayref like [200,32,0], or undef, for a null color-entry. If you stipulate a scalar-ref value for colors, then it is taken to be a reference to code of your own that expresses the whole font table.

If you dont stipulate any value for colors, then you get a table consisting of three colors: null/default (undef), 100% red ([2550,0,0]), and 100% blue ([0,0,255]).

You can freely ignore concerns of color tables if you dont use color-changing codes in your document (like cf2, to switch the text foreground color to whats declared at entry 2 (starting from 0) in the color table).

stylesheet => STRING,
filetbl => STRING,
listtables => STRING,
revtbl => STRING,

These are for expressing, in the prolog, code constituting the documents style sheet, table-of-files, table-of-lists, and table-of-revisions, respectively. The default value of each of these is empty-string. None of these are needed by a typical RTF document.

more_default => STRING,

This is for inserting any additional code just after the deffN in the start of the prolog, before the font table. A common useful value here is deflang1033, to express the default language (1033 = RTFese for US English) for the document, although my reading of the RTF spec leads me to believe that this doesnt need to be in the prolog here (where many writers put it, as apparently accepted by many RTF readers), but should (instead?) go just after the prolog, with other "document formatting" commands described in the "Document Formatting Properties" section of the RTF Specification.

doccomm => STRING,

This value is for the "document comment" metainformation item in the prolog, which appears as the "Comment" field in the "File Properties" panel in MSWord, or as the "Abstract" field in the "File Properties" window in WordPerfect.
If no value is specified, then RTF::Writer puts a string noting the value of $0 (typically the filespec to the current Perl program), and the version of RTF::Writer used.

title => STRING,
subject => STRING,
author => STRING,
manager => STRING,
company => STRING,
operator => STRING,
category => STRING,
keywords => STRING,
hlinkbase => STRING,
comment => STRING,

These are for stipulating the string values of these various optional document metainformation items. operator is for the name of the person who last made changes to the document; hlinkbase is which is the URL or path that is used for for resolving any all relative hyperlinks in the document; comment is reportedly just ignored (cf. the doccomm attribute, which is not ignored); and you can guess the rest.

The meanings of all of these are explained in greater detail in the RTF spec.

revtim => EPOCH_NUMBER,

This value is for the document metainformation section of the prolog. It signifies the last-modified time of the document. EPOCH_NUMBER is the number of seconds since the epoch, such as one gets from (stat($thing)[9]) or time(); or you may pass a reference a timelist, like [localtime($whatever)].
If no defined value for revtime is stipulated in the call to prolog(...) then the current value of time() is used. Explicitly pass a value of undef to suppress emitting any creatim value.

creatim => EPOCH_NUMBER,

This value is for the document metainformation section of the prolog. It signifies the last-modified time of the document. If no defined value for creatim is stipulated in the call to prolog(...) then the current value of time() is used. Explicitly pass a value of undef to suppress emitting any creatim value.

printim => EPOCH_NUMBER,

This value is for the document metainformation section of the prolog. It signifies the time when this document was last printed. If you dont stipulate a defined value here, no printim metainformation is written.

buptim => EPOCH_NUMBER,

This value is for the document metainformation section of the prolog. It signifies the "backup time" of this document. If you dont stipulate a defined value here, no buptim metainformation is written.

version => INTEGER,
vern => INTEGER,
edmins => INTEGER,
nofpages => INTEGER,
nofwords => INTEGER,
nofchars => INTEGER,
nofcharsws => INTEGER,
id => INTEGER,

These are for stipulating the integer values of these various optional (and not terribly useful, for most purposes!) document metainformation items. The meanings of all of these are explained in the RTF spec.

charset => STRING,

This is for expressing, in the prolog, RTF codename for the character set being used in this document. The default is "ansi", and dont stipulate anything else (like "mac", "pc", or "pca") unless you know what youre doing.

rtf_version => INTEGER,

This is for expressing, in the prolog, what major version of RTF is being used in this document. The default is 1, and dont use anything else unless you really know what youre doing.

$h->printf(format, ...items...);
This is just short for $h->print(sprintf(format, ...items...)
$h->printf(format, ...items...);

In this case, format is assumed to contain already-escaped RTF code. The items in ...items... are escaped as necessary, and then interpolated. I.e., this is rather like: $h->print(sprintf format, map rtfesc($_), ...items...)) except that numeric items dont get escaped (and dont need to be). Example:

$h->printf(
{i "%s"} was found in %2.2f percent of matchespar,
$word, 100 * $count / $total
);
$h->number_pages();
$h->number_pages(...);

This is just a handy wrapper for some code that turns on page numbering. If you call this method, you should call it right after you emit a prolog.

The page numbering consists of just putting the page number at the top-right of each page. If you provide items in the list (...), then that is pre-pended to the page number. Example:

$h->number_pages("Lexicon, p.");

Or:

$h->number_pages(bfs30f2, "page ");

$trdecl = RTF::Writer::TableRowDecl->new( ...options... )

This constructs an object representing a declaration for a table row. You can have to use it in calls to $h->row($tabldecl,...), and can reuse it on subsequent calls. This object is for declaring the dimensions of table rows.

The work that a declaration has to do, is best explained in this diagram of a bordered three-cell table (first cell containing "Foo ya!"), placed near a left margin (shown as the line of colons). The things in brackets are not on the page, but just for our reference:

: [..w1...]
: [......w2.......]
: [...w3....]
[.A..] [.B.] [.B.]
:
: +-------+---------------+---------+
: | Foo | Bar baz | Yee! |
: | ya! | quuxi quuxo | |
: | | quaqua. | |
: +-------+---------------+---------+
:
[.A..] [.B.] [.B.]
[..r1........]
[.....r2.....................]
[........r3............................]

Here the horizontal dimensions of the three-celled table are expressed in terms of: A, the distance from the current left margin; B, the minimum distance between the content of the cells (or you can think of this as twice the internal left or right borders in each cell); and then EITHER [w1, w2, w3], expressing the width of each cell, OR [r1, r2, r3], expressing each cells right ends distance from the current left margin. All distances are, of course, in twips.

Options to RTF::Writer::TableRowDecl->new( ...options... ) are:

left_start => TWIPS,

This declares the distance between the left margin, and the left end of the table. Default is 0.

inbetween => TWIPS,

This declares the distance labelled "B", above. Default is 120, which is 6 points, 1/12th-inch, about 2mm.

widths => [TWIPS, TWIPS, TWIPS, ... ],

This expresses the widths of each of the cells in this row, starting from the leftmost.

reaches => [TWIPS, TWIPS, TWIPS, ... ],

This expresses the rightmost extreme of each of the cells in this row.

align => alignmentspecs,

This is explained in detail in the section "Cell Alignment Syntax", below.

borders => borderspecs,

This is explained in detail in the section "Cell Border Syntax", below.

$h->paragraph(...);

This makes the items in the list (...) into a paragraph. Basically just a wrapper for $h->print([ {par, ..., pard}, ])
$h->row($trdecl, ...items...);

This emits a table row, with dimensions as stipulated by the $trdecl object, and with row content from the items given.

You must provide a value for $trdecl, or a fatal error results.

If you provide fewer items than $trdecl declares cells, then you get empty cells to fill out the row. If you provide more items than $trdecl declares cells, then the width of the last declared row is used in figuring the width of the additional cells for this row.

Example:

my $decl = RTF::Writer::TableRowDecl->new(widths => [1500,1900]);
$h->row($decl, "Stuff", "Hmmm");
$h->row($decl, [ul, Foo], Bar, bullet);
$h->row($decl, "Hooboy.");

This creates a table resembing:

+-------------+-------------------+
| Stuff | Hmm |
+-------------+-------------------+-------------------+
| _Foo_ | Bar | * |
+-------------+-------------------+-------------------+
| "Hooboy." | |
+-------------+-------------------+

Note that you MUST NOT use par commands in any items you emit in row cells!

The $h->row(...) method is a wrapper for producing elementary tables in RTF, with the minimum of parameters; the myriad other options that tables can have (for example, changing borders) are not supported. If you really need to generate tables fancier than what $h->row(...) can produce, start off reading the RTF spec, reading the source for row() (and the RTF::Writer::TableRowDecl class), and progress from there. Note that MSWord has been known to crash when given malformed RTF table code.

$h->table($trdecl, [...row1 items...], [...row2 items...], ... );
$h->table([...row1 items...], [...row2 items...], ... );

This is a wrapper around $h->row. It takes a list of arrayrefs, which are fed to calls to h->row($tr_decl, @$each_arrayref). You should provide a $trdecl, but if you dont, then one is crudely guessed at, based on the maximum number of columns in all rows.

$h->image( image_parameters )

This returns a scalar-reference to RTF-code representing the given image with given parameters. For example:

$h->paragraph(
"See here: ",
$h->image( filename => "foo.png", ),
);

The legal options are explained below:

filename => FILENAME,

This should be the path to a readable filename. You have to specify this. If you dont specify this, or if the value isnt a readable file, then a fatal error results. Currently, only JPEGs and PNGs are allowed; specifying any other kind of file causes a fatal error.

(The filename option above is required, but the following options are all generally optional -- altho some RTF processors may be finicky if you set some of the following but not others, for no apparent reason. When in doubt, test.)

wgoal => TWIPS,

The desired width of the image

hgoal => TWIPS,

The desired height of the image

scalex => PERCENT,
scaley => PERCENT,

Respectively, the horizontal (X) or vertical (Y) scaling value. The argument is an integer representing a percentage. (The default is 100 percent)

cropt => TWIPS,
cropb => TWIPS,
cropl => TWIPS,
cropr => TWIPS,

These specify the top, bottom, left, and right cropping values. A positive value crops toward the center of the image. A negative value crops away from the center, adding a padding space around the image.

(The default is to do neither, as youd get from a cropping value of 0.)
picspecs => SCALARVALUE,

This overrides generation of the normal image values based the image and the above parameters, and instead uses whatever value you pass a reference to. You normally shouldnt need to use this.

$h->image_paragraph( image_parameters );

This take the same options as $h->image(...), but has three differences: First, it is a shortcut for this:

$h->paragraph( qc,
$h->image( ...params...),
);

Secondly, whereas $h->image(...) returns the image data (as an RTF scalarref), $h->image_paragraph(...) doesnt return much of anything.
Thirdly, $h->image_paragraph(...) is often much more memory-efficient, since it can write the image data to a file as its RTF-ified, instead of building it all up in memory.

$h->close();

This completes writing to the stream denoted by the object in $h; this generally (assuming youd called $h->prolog) involves just writing a final close-brace to $h, and then closing whatever filehandle or file $h writes to (unless were writing to a string, in which case we just discard $hs reference to it). After you call $h->close, you should not call any other methods with $h!

Note that you dont have to explicitly call $h->close -- when an unclosed RTF::Writer object goes out of scope (or, more precisely speaking, when if its refcount hits zero), then something equivalent to calling $h->close is done automatically for you.

Data::Serializer package contains modules that serialize data structures.

SYNOPSIS

use Data::Serializer;

$obj = Data::Serializer->new();

$obj = Data::Serializer->new(
serializer => Storable,
digester => MD5,
cipher => DES,
secret => my secret,
compress => 1,
);

$serialized = $obj->serialize({a => [1,2,3],b => 5});
$deserialized = $obj->deserialize($serialized);
print "$deserialized->{b}n";

Provides a unified interface to the various serializing modules currently available. Adds the functionality of both compression and encryption.

EXAMPLES

Please see Data::Serializer::Cookbook(3)

METHODS

new - constructor
$obj = Data::Serializer->new();


$obj = Data::Serializer->new(
serializer => Data::Dumper,
digester => SHA-256,
cipher => Blowfish,
secret => undef,
portable => 1,
compress => 0,
serializer_token => 1,
options => {},
);

new is the constructor object for Data::Serializer objects.

The default serializer is Data::Dumper
The default digester is SHA-256
The default cipher is Blowfish
The default secret is undef
The default portable is 1
The default encoding is hex
The default compress is 0
The default compressor is Compress::Zlib
The default serializer_token is 1
The default options is {} (pass nothing on to serializer)
serialize - serialize reference

$serialized = $obj->serialize({a => [1,2,3],b => 5});

Serializes the reference specified.
Will compress if compress is a true value.
Will encrypt if secret is defined.
deserialize - deserialize reference

$deserialized = $obj->deserialize($serialized);

Reverses the process of serialization and returns a copy of the original serialized reference.

freeze - synonym for serialize
$serialized = $obj->freeze({a => [1,2,3],b => 5});

thaw - synonym for deserialize
$deserialized = $obj->thaw($serialized);

raw_serialize - serialize reference in raw form
$serialized = $obj->raw_serialize({a => [1,2,3],b => 5});

This is a straight pass through to the underlying serializer, nothing else is done. (no encoding, encryption, compression, etc)

raw_deserialize - deserialize reference in raw form
$deserialized = $obj->raw_deserialize($serialized);

This is a straight pass through to the underlying serializer, nothing else is done. (no encoding, encryption, compression, etc)

secret - specify secret for use with encryption
$obj->secret(mysecret);

Changes setting of secret for the Data::Serializer object. Can also be set in the constructor. If specified than the object will utilize encryption.

portable - encodes/decodes serialized data

Uses encoding method to ascii armor serialized data

Aids in the portability of serialized data.

compress - compression of data

Compresses serialized data. Default is not to use it. Will compress if set to a true value $obj->compress(1);

serializer - change the serializer

Currently have 8 supported serializers: Storable, FreezeThaw, Data::Denter, Config::General, YAML, PHP::Serialization, XML::Dumper, and Data::Dumper.
Default is to use Data::Dumper.

Each serializer has its own caveats about usage especially when dealing with cyclical data structures or CODE references. Please see the appropriate documentation in those modules for further information.

cipher - change the cipher method

Utilizes Crypt::CBC and can support any cipher method that it supports.

digester - change digesting method

Uses Digest so can support any digesting method that it supports. Digesting function is used internally by the encryption routine as part of data verification.

compressor - changes compresing module

This method is included for possible future inclusion of alternate compression method Currently Compress::Zlib is the only supported compressor.

encoding - change encoding method

Encodes data structure in ascii friendly manner. Currently the only valid options are hex, or b64.

The b64 option uses Base64 encoding provided by MIME::Base64, but strips out newlines.

serializer_token - add usage hint to data

Data::Serializer prepends a token that identifies what was used to process its data. This is used internally to allow runtime determination of how to extract Serialized data. Disabling this feature is not recommended.

options - pass options through to underlying serializer

Currently is only supported by Config::General, and XML::Dumper.

my $obj = Data::Serializer->new(serializer => Config::General,
options => {
-LowerCaseNames => 1,
-UseApacheInclude => 1,
-MergeDuplicateBlocks => 1,
-AutoTrue => 1,
-InterPolateVars => 1
},
) or die "$!n";

or

my $obj = Data::Serializer->new(serializer => XML::Dumper,
options => { dtd => 1, }
) or die "$!n";
store - serialize data and write it to a file (or file handle)
$obj->store({a => [1,2,3],b => 5},$file, [$mode, $perm]);

or

$obj->store({a => [1,2,3],b => 5},$fh);

Serializes the reference specified using the serialize method and writes it out to the specified file or filehandle.

If a file path is specified you may specify an optional mode and permission as the next two arguments. See IO::File for examples.

Trips an exception if it is unable to write to the specified file.

retrieve - read data from file (or file handle) and return it after deserialization

my $ref = $obj->retrieve($file);

or

my $ref = $obj->retrieve($fh);

Reads first line of supplied file or filehandle and returns it deserialized.

Storable module is a persistence for Perl data structures.

SYNOPSIS

use Storable;
store %table, file;
$hashref = retrieve(file);

use Storable qw(nstore store_fd nstore_fd freeze thaw dclone);

# Network order
nstore %table, file;
$hashref = retrieve(file); # There is NO nretrieve()

# Storing to and retrieving from an already opened file
store_fd @array, *STDOUT;
nstore_fd %table, *STDOUT;
$aryref = fd_retrieve(*SOCKET);
$hashref = fd_retrieve(*SOCKET);

# Serializing to memory
$serialized = freeze %table;
%table_clone = %{ thaw($serialized) };

# Deep (recursive) cloning
$cloneref = dclone($ref);

# Advisory locking
use Storable qw(lock_store lock_nstore lock_retrieve)
lock_store %table, file;
lock_nstore %table, file;
$hashref = lock_retrieve(file);

The Storable package brings persistence to your Perl data structures containing SCALAR, ARRAY, HASH or REF objects, i.e. anything that can be conveniently stored to disk and retrieved at a later time.

It can be used in the regular procedural way by calling store with a reference to the object to be stored, along with the file name where the image should be written.
The routine returns undef for I/O problems or other internal error, a true value otherwise. Serious errors are propagated as a die exception.

To retrieve data stored to disk, use retrieve with a file name. The objects stored into that file are recreated into memory for you, and a reference to the root object is returned. In case an I/O error occurs while reading, undef is returned instead. Other serious errors are propagated via die.

Since storage is performed recursively, you might want to stuff references to objects that share a lot of common data into a single array or hash table, and then store that object. That way, when you retrieve back the whole thing, the objects will continue to share what they originally shared.
At the cost of a slight header overhead, you may store to an already opened file descriptor using the store_fd routine, and retrieve from a file via fd_retrieve. Those names arent imported by default, so you will have to do that explicitly if you need those routines. The file descriptor you supply must be already opened, for read if youre going to retrieve and for write if you wish to store.

store_fd(%table, *STDOUT) || die "cant store to stdoutn";
$hashref = fd_retrieve(*STDIN);

You can also store data in network order to allow easy sharing across multiple platforms, or when storing on a socket known to be remotely connected. The routines to call have an initial n prefix for network, as in nstore and nstore_fd. At retrieval time, your data will be correctly restored so you dont have to know whether youre restoring from native or network ordered data. Double values are stored stringified to ensure portability as well, at the slight risk of loosing some precision in the last decimals.

When using fd_retrieve, objects are retrieved in sequence, one object (i.e. one recursive tree) per associated store_fd.
If youre more from the object-oriented camp, you can inherit from Storable and directly store your objects by invoking store as a method. The fact that the root of the to-be-stored tree is a blessed reference (i.e. an object) is special-cased so that the retrieve does not provide a reference to that object but rather the blessed object reference itself. (Otherwise, youd get a reference to that blessed object).

Analog VUmeter is a visualization plugin for XMMS.

If you like this plugin, then please send me feedback, comments, patches, etc. Also what I need is artwork or skins, so mail me if you would like to help with that.

Idea for this plugin came from similar plugin for winamp called Homeboy analog VU meter, and ideas how to write plugin to xmms from MSA plugin.

At first I only wanted to make something, that would look like the real thing, but as time passed, I have tried to make it also behave like it actually did something useful.

So what you are actually seeing is dBFS value for sound, which means RMS value of soundlevel compared to reference ((2^16-1)/2). Values range from 0 dBFS (highest) to -91 dBFS (lowest).