On Tuesday 26 March 2013 04:11 AM, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> Hi Archit,
>
> On Monday 25 March 2013 11:44:35 Archit Taneja wrote:
>> Hi Laurent,
>>
>> On Tuesday 19 March 2013 08:25 PM, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
>>> Extend the -P option to allow specifying the plane x and y offsets. The
>>> position is optional, if not specified the plane will be positioned at
>>> the center of the screen as before.
>>
>> Thanks for this series. I tested the patches with a Panda ES board.
>>
>> I was facing issues with the plane position though, when I execute this
>> on the command line:
>>
>> ./modetest -s 12:1440x900 -P 6:(0,0)/300x200
>>
>> I get a syntax error by bash saying it doesn't expect "(". I guess there
>> are ways around to get over this,
>
> I use
>
> ./modetest -s 12:1440x900 -P '6:(0,0)/300x200'
>
>> but I was wondering if we could get rid of the braces all together to keep
>> it simple? The "/" character could be used to figure out whether the user
>> has also mentioned position or not.
>
> It makes parsing the option a bit more complex, but I can do that if you think
> it's better.I think it's fine. After googling a bit on the syntax error issue, I thought that putting the command in a script file was the only option, but your method above is convenient enough. Thanks, Archit
