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</style></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><table class="navigation" width="100%" summary="Navigation header" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2"><tr valign="middle"><td><a accesskey="p" href="index.html"><img src="left.png" width="24" height="24" border="0" alt="Prev"></a></td><td><a accesskey="h" href="index.html"><img src="home.png" width="24" height="24" border="0" alt="Home"></a></td><th width="100%" align="center">BLib Reference Manual</th><td><a accesskey="n" href="blib-utils.html"><img src="right.png" width="24" height="24" border="0" alt="Next"></a></td></tr></table><div class="chapter" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a name="blib"></a>BLib Overview</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p>
BLib is a library of useful things to hack the <a href="http://www.blinkenlights.de/" target="_top">Blinkenlights</a>. The
software used for the original Blinkenlights installation in
Berlin didn't fit our needs when we planned the installation in
Paris, dubbed <a href="http://www.blinkenlights.de/arcade/" target="_top">Arcade</a>. We
decided we need something more generic and developed BLib.
</p><p>
BLib was written by Daniel Mack, Michael Natterer and Sven
Neumann with modules contributed by 1stein (BPacman, BBreakout)
and Simon Budig (BMatrix).
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There are a couple of software packages that use BLib:
</p><div class="variablelist"><table border="0"><col align="left" valign="top"><tbody><tr><td><span class="term">blinkentools</span></td><td><p>
A set of command-line utilities related to Blinkenlights.
It includes b2b, a converter for Blinkenmovies that can
apply some simple effects, b2mng, which creates MNG
animations from Blinkenmovies, and bsend, which sends movies
over the net using the Blinkenlights Network Protocol.
</p></td></tr><tr><td><span class="term">blinkensim</span></td><td><p>
A graphical Blinkenlights simulator that displays the UDP
packets it receives according to the Blinkenlights Network
Protocol. It supports themes and comes with <a href="http://www.directfb.org/" target="_top">DirectFB</a> and <a href="http://www.gtk.org/" target="_top">GTK+</a> backends.
</p></td></tr><tr><td><span class="term">blccc</span></td><td><p>
The Blinkenlights Chaos Control center is the heart of
every Blinkenlights installation. This is the master
process that controls the lights. It makes heavy use of
BLib.
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</p><p>
BLib depends on <a href="http://www.gtk.org/" target="_top">GLib</a>
version 2.0 (or newer). For the optional DirectFB view you need
<a href="http://www.directfb.org/" target="_top">DirectFB</a> version
0.9.11 (or newer) and the GTK+ view requires at least <a href="http://www.gtk.org/" target="_top">GTK+</a> version 2.0.3.
</p><p>
BLib is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
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