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Started by Martyn at Rimmer
Thu, 05 Nov 1992 10:44
MIME and xmh
Author: Martyn at Rimmer
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 10:44
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 10:44
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I recently posted a message to the mh and few X releated groups about MIME and xmh -- but I did not get much response -- I did not know this group existed then -- May be comp.mail.multi-media will prove more fruitful. My question is: Is anyone working on a fully MIME compatible version of xmh. The idea being that xmh would interpret a MIME message and display the body parts as icons which when hit with the mouse button would play the audio or display a image. Certain body parts (eg richtext or gifs?) could be actually show in xmh itself by usings a different widget or something. A grander solution might be to invent a multi-media widget. I have been told that the next version of mh (not xmh) will be MIME compatable (but I don't know what that means - maybe just the fix to call metamail ?). I also know that quite abit of work is being done at MIT to incorperate multi-media into X. Can anybody fill me in on plans/work in progress. If nothing is happening, I'm think of doing it myself. Please mail me or this newsgroup if of general interest since I shall be reading it from on. Martyn BTW If this is a FAQ I beg your forgiveness. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Martyn Hampson m.hampson@cc.ic.ac.uk lmperial College Computer Centre. -------------------------------------------------------------------------
Re: MIME and xmh
Author: Eric W. Ziegast
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 13:03
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 13:03
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mjh@cc.ic.ac.uk (Martyn at Rimmer) writes: > My question is: Is anyone working on a fully MIME compatible version > of xmh. The idea being that xmh would interpret a MIME message and > display the body parts as icons which when hit with the mouse button > would play the audio or display a image. Certain body parts (eg > richtext or gifs?) could be actually show in xmh itself by usings > a different widget or something. A grander solution might be to > invent a multi-media widget. Some time ago I played with the idea of using Wcl to replace all of the functionality of Xmh. I currently use Axe (with hacks) as my Xmh editor/whatnow, but want things like word wrap, indentation, spell checker, etc... and possibly the implementation of MIME (seperate pop-ups for displaying parts of a message, a special Import dialog box for incorperating non-text files and a sendproc filter that ensures that the message is properly formatted). It's not what I get paid for, so I'm not planning to do it anytime soon. It is at least possible to incorperate MIME viewing into xmh (for viewing) by using your Xdefaults to attach a program (shell script?) to a button so that when it's pressed, the current message can be passed through mhn(1) for various parts of a message. As for inputting files/images/rtf into a MIME message for sending, you need to use a better editor with your Xmh before you can do that. I chose Axe because it was easily customizable (yet, people rag on me for not preferring vi or emacs). -- Eric Ziegast
Re: MIME and xmh
Author: Jack Churchill
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1992 09:45
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1992 09:45
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In article <1992Nov5.104412.2241@cc.ic.ac.uk>, mjh@cc.ic.ac.uk (Martyn at Rimmer) writes: > My question is: Is anyone working on a fully MIME compatible version > of xmh. The idea being that xmh would interpret a MIME message and > display the body parts as icons which when hit with the mouse button > would play the audio or display a image. Certain body parts (eg > richtext or gifs?) could be actually show in xmh itself by usings > a different widget or something. A grander solution might be to > invent a multi-media widget. What an excellent idea! Sounds a bit like how Microsoft Mail works on PCs. Does anyone have a realistic view on when such nice fronts ends will be available on unix systems? -- Jack N. Churchill | J.Churchill@syd.deg.csiro.au CSIRO Division of Exploration Geoscience | churchill@decus.com.au PO Box 136 North Ryde NSW 2113 | Phone: +61 2 887 8884 Australia | Fax: +61 2 887 8909 ** Unless otherwise specified, the opinions expressed here are my own. **
Re: MIME and xmh
Author: Markku Savela
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1992 21:33
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1992 21:33
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>In article <1992Nov5.104412.2241@cc.ic.ac.uk>, mjh@cc.ic.ac.uk (Martyn at Rimmer) writes: >> would play the audio or display a image. Certain body parts (eg >> richtext or gifs?) could be actually show in xmh itself by usings >> a different widget or something. A grander solution might be to >> invent a multi-media widget. I agree to this and actually trying to throw together a widget set from various existing software. I am approaching the problem from bottom up and not making a single "multi-media widget". Instead, I am trying to build a widget for each content type. So far I have just been able to get prototype of Raster Image widget and working on multifont ISO2022 text widget now (I approach the problem from ODA direction, so I have not yet tackled any tagged text contents, but as ISO202 + ANSI control sequences for effects are implemented, it wouldn't be a big job to convert rich text into such byte stream and feed to widget). The raster widget currently takes GIF, JPEG/JFIF and TIFF (using Sam Leflers tifflib v3.1 and jpegsrc.v3 libraries). I am hoping to get my hands on some MPEG source code that runs on Unix (actually Sun IPX) so that I could mold into video widget. Actually, would be interested in hearing ideas how such could be built, as there might be multiple instances of such widget running simultaneously. No plans yet how to make widgets for Postscript and CGM. Maybe, if the author of Ghostscript package turned a widget version out of it? While back I posted a notice about this into comp.window.x under title new data presentation widget set (Xew). It is still uncertion what the status of this work is, because I am doing it on EuroBridge (RACE 2008) project. -- Markku Savela (savela@tel.vtt.fi), Technical Research Centre of Finland Telecommunications Laboratory, Otakaari 7 B, SF-02150 ESPOO, Finland
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