--- Omer Zak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Tomas Frydrych wrote: > > > AbiWord has a decent scripting framework in place > > which makes it possible to script it in pretty > > much anything decent. > > Excellent! > > > I think we would benefit from some simple > > scripting language very easy to use, something so > > simple that the church secretary might be able to > > use that for very basic stuff. > > For very simple/beginner level tasks, Tcl is the > answer. If someone wants to do something more > complicated, which requires real program design and > programming, he can learn another scripting language.
If you strongly feel that AbiWord needs Tcl support on top of the existing Perl and Python support, please file an RFE. That doens't mean anybody will implement it any time now but somebody might. > Now, does AbiWord have a mechanism to change the INS > key binding so that it'll invoke a script (which > will pop up a dialog, which needs an extra mouse > click to be dismissed) instead of changing the > caret color? No it doesn't. You should file an RFE to get APIs added/exported to trap arbitrary keypresses by scripting interface. It should be doable if somebody has the interest and the time to add it. Andrew Dunbar. > Omer > WARNING TO SPAMMERS: at > http://www.zak.co.il/spamwarning.html > ===== http://linguaphile.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/translator.pl http://www.abisource.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com
