argus-eye GUI

[Tom Briglia]

Hey Russel,

That is why I stated patching either the Sift tools or Argus.

Maybe a patch could be made for Argus that would introduce a new command
line switch that would force Argus to output in pre 2.06 mode? Like maybe:

argus -retro

would place argus in a mode where output was the same format as 2.0.5?

Thx!

T.




Quoting Russell Fulton <r.fulton at auckland.ac.nz>:

>
>
> Tom Briglia wrote:
> > You might also want to check out the GUI Visualization tools put out by
> the
> > SIFT project for they are based on Argus:
> >
> > http://www.projects.ncassr.org/sift/
> >
> > Rather than re-invent the wheel it would be nice to help figure out how
> to
> > patch the SIFT tools (or Argus) so that they can utilize Argus 3.x as
> > opposed to being stuck on 2.0.5.
> >
>
> Unfortunately the SIFT tools are not open source so there isn't anything
> that can be done about upgrading them to work with argus 3.0 :(   The
> fact that they still only support 2.0.5 suggests that the project is
> dormant (it took me about half an hour to convert my scripts to cope
> with 2.0.6 --- I cant see that it is a big deal).    In their current
> state these are a dead end.
>
> This is one reason why I (generally) stay away from free closed source
> software, if the original author (or in this case team of grad students)
> lmove on you are stuck.
>
> Anyway I've dropped the project manager a note asking if they will
> release the source to me so I can look at patching it.
>
> Cheers, Russell
>