Save Speed in Script

#1

Dear Cuperino,

Is it possible to save the speed of my script, now i set the scrolling speed as example to 6 and save the script and close Qprompt and when i start up Qprompt or select new and load saved script the speed is 0?

#2

Hi @24se7en,

It is not yet possible to save the speed to the script. There’s an ticket open in the issue tracker to add this feature. As a matter if fact, I opened it because you described the feature in another ticket a almost 2 years ago now. Back then I didn’t know how to add this feature, so it went into the backlog. I have a clear idea on how to add this feature today, but I haven’t gotten around to it yet.

Here is the ticket used to track progress on this feature. You can subscribe to it to get notified when I get around to work on it:

I don’t expect to get to it for several months tho. A handful of text formatting bugs and a couple of features that were voted in the features survey have higher priority after v2.0 gets released. That said, it is safe to say we’ll have this feature for v2.1.

#3

Pardon me, but I just wanted the OP to know there are others awaiting your good work on this issue as well. And we thank you for all your hard work.

#4

I appreciate that, but I need help to speed things up. Here’s how one of you could help today: https://www.patreon.com/posts/131470431/ I need help re-doing all the screenshots translators would use as reference for translating the project.

The most recent early access build can be found here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/129162619

#5

Screenshots are not a big deal, and I would be glad to help. Please explain:

  1. Do you use SVG or some other scalable format, or do you use a set format (which might not be viewable for all users)?
  2. Where is the Debian build to install?
#6
  • Do you use SVG or some other scalable format, or do you use a set format (which might not be viewable for all users)?

Because screenshots of any program are raster by nature, producing an SVG isn’t a practical option for. what I do is use the PNG format. I chose it because it is compressed, lossless, and supported by all modern web browsers. Raster formats don’t scale, so, whenever possible, I will make sure that the display in which I capture the screenshot has been up-scaled by 200% or a multiple of that.

I will often take those screenshots into the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP), go to Image > Mode > Indexed, and generate an optimum palette of up-to 256 colors. Reducing colors to a low number will save space at the expense of quality. When there aren’t many colors in a screenshot, I will find the smallest number of colors that produces an output that looks close to the original. If an image contains many colors (say when there’s a picture in the background), I will produce a JPEG with the following settings: 80% quality, full sub-sampling, progressive, optimized.

  • Where is the Debian build to install?

You can find the latest deb package in the aforementioned Patreon post.

Pick the build with the correct architecture for your computer. Here are the links for:

Debian, however, continues to provide outdated dependencies and will continue to do so until Debian Trixie is released. (which recently entered its testing phase) has released. Because of that, this deb package will not work on any Debian or any derivative with KDE dependencies not older than the ones Ubuntu 25.04 provides.

It’s worth reminding that our QPrompt packages are also in testing. I’m aware that there’s at least one runtime dependency that’s not being selected and installed automatically. I don’t know yet which are those because my systems supply them (because they come with KDE Plasma). You may need to manually install the missing runtime dependencies yourself if you launch the program from other Desktop Environments and don’t have KDE Plasma installed.

#7

That last step of indexing PNGs isn’t really required tho. I do it because it saves space and thus helps the environment and the site load faster; but the compression of JPEGs and PNGs is good enough for our needs.

As to why I choose PNG and not GIF, it turns out indexed and low bit PNGs compress better than GIFs do. Both formats, however, take longer to decode (and thus longer to appear on screen) than JPEGs. So, for large sized raster images, JPEG should be preferred.