Getting Information About The Camera - Canon Camera Hackers Manual

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C H A P T E R 4 Teach Your Camera New Tricks
When the file is showing, you can scroll downwards with the
button, the
wards with the
The MENU button leads back to the Text File Reader submenu:
Here, the function Select RBF Font opens the font browser (section
f
4.2.2). A larger font may be easier to read, but it also reduces the amount
of text that can be displayed on one page. Not all fonts support all na-
tional characters. So, if national characters (umlauts and the like) don't
display correctly, you may want to try another font.
f The Codepage option allows selecting between Win1251 and DOS code-
pages. If a text file does not display correctly and shows strange charac-
ters, you might want to try the other codepage.
The reader always wraps lines that are too long to display into the next
f
line. When the option Wrap by Words is set, it will try not to wrap within
words but to honor word boundaries.
Finally, the Enable Autoscroll option can make the reader scroll auto-
f
matically. Every time the specified Delay expires, the reader scrolls down
one page.

4.10.3 Getting information about the camera

Under ALT >
that display information about the camera:
Show build info. Shows the current version of the CHDK in use and re-
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lated information.
Show memory info. Displays free memory available in the camera RAM
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and the space used by the CHDK.
More information is found in the Debug submenu. Most of this informa-
tion supports CHDK developers, but some of it may be useful for "normal"
users. Warning: Before playing around with the options of this submenu,
make a backup of your memory card—and in particular, a backup of the
CHDK configuration file CHDK/CCHDK.CFG. Entering bad values can cause
the CHDK to fail at start-up. In this case, you must be able to restore the
configuration file from an earlier version (section A.2).
Debug Data display. This can be used for displaying Property Cases (sec-
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tion 5.6), parameters, and operating system tasks (only when running
under VxWorks) on the OSD. Because there are many of these values,
the display can be positioned to a section within the values by setting
the entries PropCasePage and Task List start to appropriate values.
DOWN button, and the
LEFT button, the UP
MENU > Miscellaneous Stuff there are a few useful functions
ZOOM_IN button. You can scroll up-
button, and the ZOOM_OUT
RIGHT
button.