Re: Updates in perllib API

2009-03-18 Thread Scott Smedley
Hi Mikhael, H, my previous reply seems to have gone astray ... most of the old API continues to work. Almost: No method add_defaultErrorHandler in FVWM::Module::Tk=HASH(0x9f8ae10) as guessed from FVWM::Module::Tk::addDefaultErrorHandler at

Re: updating the html docs in fvwm-web?

2008-01-07 Thread Scott Smedley
Hi Dominik, I *really* need instruction in the docs/DEVELOPER file if we want the man pages on the web page to be up to date. I don't have the slightest idea what I have to do. Help! H, I did start writing some ... not sure if I finished it. Here's what I had - I'll check/commit it

Re: www.fvwm.org web server

2007-08-24 Thread Scott Smedley
Hi Renato, If so, I am just asking if it's possible for the www.fvwm.org web server not to specify/override the encoding. Then, presumably, the web browser would determine the encoding from the HTML header it would render correctly. Wouldn't it be easier to change the html man page

Re: CVS domivogt: * Check for sed, perl and tbl, needed to build docs.

2007-08-20 Thread Scott Smedley
Hi all, Just got back from holiday ... been reading through the posts but I'm confused, maybe I missed something: On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 05:48:05PM -0500, FVWM CVS wrote: CVSROOT: /home/cvs/fvwm Module name: fvwm Changes by: domivogt07/08/16 17:48:05 Modified files:

Re: CVS domivogt: * Check for sed, perl and tbl, needed to build docs.

2007-08-20 Thread Scott Smedley
Log message: * Check for sed, perl and tbl, needed to build docs. Why do we need perl to build the documentation? Because of the script doc/util/genAllCommands.pl. Pretend it's not there. Delete it from CVS if it really bothers you (I can keep my own version). I only wrote it to

Re: CVS griph: * run manpage through tbl on build

2007-08-20 Thread Scott Smedley
Hi Viktor, On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 05:05:21PM -0500, FVWM CVS wrote: CVSROOT: /home/cvs/fvwm Module name: fvwm Changes by: griph 07/08/16 17:05:21 Modified files: doc: ChangeLog doc/fvwm : Makefile.am focus.xml Log message: * run manpage

Re: CVS griph: * run manpage through tbl on build

2007-08-20 Thread Scott Smedley
Hi Viktor, Is xsltproc case-insensitive? With a case-insencitive filesystem (i.e. on Mac OS X or Cygwin). It complained about recorsion in file Focus.xml, line 16, which really was the file focus.xml. And the generated manpage had four leels of recursion around there and did not include

Re: broken links in groupedCommands.html

2007-08-12 Thread Scott Smedley
Hi Serge, Links for 'Obsolete or Deprecated' commands in file 'doc/groupedCommands.html' are broken (they missing .html suffix). Attached patch fixes this. Applied. Thanks. Scott. :)

Re: CVS domivogt: * Write fvwm in lower case everywhere

2007-08-07 Thread Scott Smedley
Log message: * Write fvwm in lower case everywhere I disagree with this policy. (sigh, FVWM has been popping up all over the place since the last time I cahanged this).. That's because lower case acronyms are counter-intuitive uncommon. The standard convention is to spell acronyms in

Re: html-doc; make distcheck fails

2007-07-19 Thread Scott Smedley
Hi Dominik, I notice you made a change to doc/Makefile.am. Did that fix your problem? I'm surprised if it did. No, I just reformatted it slightly: I was referring to this change: - @ cp $(srcdir)/$@ $@ + @cp $(srcdir)/$@ $(top_builddir)/doc/$@ I notice you've changed it to:

Re: CVS broken

2007-07-18 Thread Scott Smedley
Hi Dominik, So, configure isn't correctly disabling Xcursor support? Maybe. Does it still compile or link with libxcursor? Yep: (I copied the make output appended -lXcursor) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ cd fvwm/cvs.0/build.2/bin [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/fvwm/cvs.0/build.2/bin gcc -Wall

Re: CVS broken

2007-07-18 Thread Scott Smedley
Hi Dominik, I've fixed the problem that shows up in that file. Does it still happen with current cvs if you build from scratch? Fixed now, thanks. Scott.

Re: CVS broken

2007-07-17 Thread Scott Smedley
On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 10:04:26PM +0200, Dominik Vogt wrote: On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 12:27:15AM +1000, Scott Smedley wrote: But I'm still getting lots of errors in libs/FRender.c. The fix requires that I link with -lXrender. But which makefile to edit? The build/make system

Re: [patch] svg html doc output

2007-07-16 Thread Scott Smedley
Hi Simon, Are you related to Viktor? Just curious. I've made the SVG rendering options documentation section look much better with the new html output. A few descriptive images really makes a difference. It sure does! Your patch is good. Can I ask you to tidy up the formatting a little?

Re: Can't compile current CVS (cp ./index.html index.html)

2007-07-16 Thread Scott Smedley
This seems something trivial, but I can't seem to find the real solution. Ditto. (See the Problems building snap-20070713 thread.) Just out of curiosity, what distro are you using? what version of make? Scott.

Re: CVS broken (Was: PictureImageLoader stuff ...)

2007-07-16 Thread Scott Smedley
But I'm still getting lots of errors in libs/FRender.c. The fix requires that I link with -lXrender. But which makefile to edit? The build/make system is too complicated for me. :( Scott.

Re: [patch] svg html doc output

2007-07-16 Thread Scott Smedley
On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 09:52:28PM +0200, Simon Griph wrote: I've made the SVG rendering options documentation section look much better with the new html output. A few descriptive images really makes a difference. Looking good.

function oddity

2007-07-11 Thread Scott Smedley
Hi all, I need confirmation I'm not crazy. This works ok (substitute rxvt for xterm if appropriate): AddToFunc fn I Exec exec rxvt $* fn -e sleep 4 this is ok too: AddToFunc fn3 I Test (x rxvt) Exec exec rxvt $* fn3 -e sleep 4 but this isn't: AddToFunc fn2 Test (x rxvt) + I Exec exec rxvt

Re: GPLv3?

2007-07-06 Thread Scott Smedley
Hi Dominik, Should we upgrade to the GPLv3? I'm happy for any of my contributions to be licensed using GPLv3. (not that permission is required with the v2 or any later version clause in the existing GPLv2 licence.) I'd like to see FVWM migrate to GPLv3 soon, allowing a reasonable time (~1

Re: differences between the docbook manpage and the old manpage

2007-06-07 Thread Scott Smedley
Hi Victor, * use more precise docbook tags in many places Your changes are good. However, a cursory inspection of the HTML output shows something isn't quite right. There's a strange character in the section headings (after the section number). eg. It looks like 1.,Name instead of 1. Name. I

creation of images on documentation web page

2007-05-10 Thread Scott Smedley
Hi all, How were the images on the documentation web page created? http://www.fvwm.org/documentation/ I need to create another one for a link to the HTML documentation. Would anyone like to volunteer to create one for me? Using: http://www.fvwm.org/doc/unstable/ Scott. :)

use of navgen in fvwm-web

2007-05-10 Thread Scott Smedley
Hi Uwe, I want to modify an entry in fvwm-web/navgen_write/navigation.inc but there is a comment at the top: // This file is generated automatically by navgen. How do I generate this file? Which file should I edit so that it will add a new entry? Scott. :)

Re: Bug in FvwmForm

2007-04-09 Thread Scott Smedley
As you can see in the picture, for some reason, the text on the Timeout label overlaps the text on the last button, so I think that this might be some kind of overflow H. There is a race condition in the FvwmForm module. A button press can trigger a call to RedrawItem() at the same time

Re: Test (Compare x [,=,==,=, y) -- patch

2007-04-09 Thread Scott Smedley
This is just intended to work as a simple Test modification, by reusing all what's there, and not to provide any advanced conditional functionality, ... get rid of ugly bash tricks to do something as simple as to decide the size of a panel. The if-syntax patch I wrote some time ago

Re: XML doc

2007-03-23 Thread Scott Smedley
Hi Dominik, * There is lots of markup in the examples which should not be there (commands and command options). It conveys extra information (about what is a builtin command). I consider it an improvement, but I can remove it if you feel strongly about it. * All section headers look the

Re: XML doc

2007-03-10 Thread Scott Smedley
Hi Dominik, If you do not want to produce this documentation please use: ./configure --disable-htmldoc As the process take four times longer than building the executables, may I suggest that a) the html pages are not built unless you specifically ask for them, Ok. I will

Re: XML doc

2007-03-10 Thread Scott Smedley
Hi Dan, Just woke up and had to try this... That's the kind of enthusiasm I like! :) When it got to the docs, it started printing this warning: make[3]: Entering directory `/home/dane/src/fvwm/build_fvwm2_5_20/doc/fvwm' Generating authors.html ../../../fvwm2_5_20/doc/fvwm/authors.xml:6:

Re: XML doc

2007-03-10 Thread Scott Smedley
Hi Dan, I think the key is that I build from OUTSIDE the source dir. I still get the same problems. You are correct - fixed now. Thanks, Scott. :)

Re: XML doc

2007-03-10 Thread Scott Smedley
Hi Dominik, The current state of the XML documentation prevents me from writing any documentation. As almost everything I do has to be documented, it prevents me to do almost anything. I understand your concerns about the man-page output not being rendered perfectly I'll endeavour to fix

cross-referenced FVWM documentation

2007-01-14 Thread Scott Smedley
Hi all, I have been working on converting the FVWM documentation into DocBook format. You can view some preliminary HTML results on-line. http://members.optusnet.com.au/~scott.fvwm/index.html The most interesting links, so far, are: All Commands Grouped Commands Modules FVWM man page

GnomeShowDesks command?

2006-12-14 Thread Scott Smedley
Hi all, I notice that FVWM has a command called GnomeShowDesks, yet it is not documented in the man page. Is that ok? Scott.

Searching the FVWM mailing lists

2006-11-23 Thread Scott Smedley
Can someone please fix the Google search thingy on this page: http://www.fvwm.org/contact/ It should be using: site:www.mail-archive.com not: site:www.hpc.uh.edu The -inurl specifiers probably need updating too. Scott. :)

ModuleConfig.pm

2003-06-06 Thread Scott Smedley
Hi Mikhael, I tried out your ModuleConfig tracker with FvwmTabs - it works great. Should I expect to get an 'observation' if I dynamically change config parameters? (using FvwmTalk or FvwmCommand) The dynamic values are only propogated after I restart FvwmTabs. Also, you need to