Re: [RP] Scripting question - or two...

[Gergely Nagy]

Thus spoke Mike Meyer <address@hidden> on 2001-10-05 04:42:27:
> This wouldn't really add any new functionality - assuming the thing
> about getting windows to appear in the frame I want them in is
> possible - it would make writing scripts to drive things much, much
> easier. For example, a ratmenu-like popup that lists "workspaces", and
> lets you change between them, reconfiguring the frames and putting
> different windows where you want them would be straightforward.
>

The CVS version has focus{ip,down,left,right} which helps a lot with
this, and a sample script in contrib/.

> Reactions? Rotten tomatoes?

AFAIK, there was a todo item to make some commands return stuff, when
they are called without arguments, so they could be parsed and used
later. If that is implemented, I think you could do everything with
a CORBA-less ratpoison, albeit, you'll have to call a binary (I can't
really imagine scripting ratpoison from anything other than shell, so
I don't consider this a big disadvantage).

Another thing against CORBA is that it adds a dependency on the CORBA
libs, and ratpoison depended only on libc and the X libs so far, and
avoided other libs.

However, I'd be interested in seeing CORBA support, as a compile-time
option maybe, it should be fun :)

Cheers,
-- 
Gergely Nagy \ mhp/|8]

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