3.4 Initializing RapaGUI

All you have to do to make your script use RapaGUI instead of Hollywood's inbuilt graphics engine is adding the following line to the top of your script:

@REQUIRE "rapagui"

Alternatively, if you are using Hollywood from a console, you can also start your script like this:

Hollywood test.hws -requireplugins rapagui

RapaGUI accepts the following arguments in its @REQUIRE call:

ScaleGUI:

When running RapaGUI on a high-DPI monitor, all raster graphics will automatically be scaled to fit to the monitor's DPI settings. If you don't want that, set this tag to False. See High-DPI support for details. If this tag is set to True (also the default), you can control whether or not bilinear interpolation should be used during scaling using the InterpolateGUI tag (see below). Defaults to True. (V2.0)

InterpolateGUI:

If ScaleGUI is set to True (also the default), the InterpolateGUI tag can be used to specify whether or not bilinear interpolation should be used when scaling. Defaults to True. (V2.0)

ScaleHollywood:

When running RapaGUI on a high-DPI monitor, all Hollywood widgets will automatically be scaled to fit to the monitor's DPI settings. If you don't want that, set this tag to False. See High-DPI support for details. If this tag is set to True (also the default), you can control whether or not bilinear interpolation should be used during scaling using the InterpolateHollywood tag (see below). Defaults to True. (V2.0)

InterpolateHollywood:

If ScaleHollywood is set to True (also the default), the InterpolateHollywood tag can be used to specify whether or not bilinear interpolation should be used when scaling. Note that in contrast to the InterpolateGUI tag the InterpolateHollywood tag defaults to False which means that by default, bilinear interpolation is not used for Hollywood widgets. (V2.0)

HideDisplays:

By default, RapaGUI will hide all Hollywood displays on startup. If you don't want that, set this tag to True. This can be useful when using RapaGUI in Hollywood emulation mode, i.e. without using any of RapaGUI's GUI functionality but just to get some features that Hollywood does not support by default on some platforms (e.g. menus on Linux, or inter-process communication on Linux and macOS). (V2.0)

Here is an example of how to pass arguments to the @REQUIRE preprocessor command:

@REQUIRE "rapagui", {ScaleGUI = False}

Alternatively, you can also use the -requiretags console argument to pass these arguments. See the Hollywood manual for more information.