On 21 Feb 2008, at 15:05, Andreas Höschler wrote:
Hi all,
I have a special problem. A foreign non-GNUstep application
(actually Star Office) is currently been modified to call a script
whenever a user saves a file. I would like to use this to trigger an
action in a GNUstep application (grab the Star Office file from the
temporary directory and store it in a database).
The question is, how can a script (GNUstep tool) send a notification
to a GNUstep application? I used tcp sockets so far for IPC but this
does not seem to be appropriate in this case. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Andreas
If all you need is a notification, then you can send a distributed
notification. The simplest way of doing this would be to write a
simple tool that would put its arguments into the userinfo dictionary
for a distributed notification and then send it.
My code would look something like this:
int main(int argc, char ** argv)
{
[[NSDistributedNotificationCenter defaultCenter]
postNotificationName:@"File Modified"
object:[NSString stringWithUTF8String:argv[1]
userInfo:[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObject:[NSString
stringWithUTF8String:argv[2]]
forKey:@"Filename"]
deliverImmediately:YES];
return 0;
}
You'd compile this to something like notify and then call it from your
shell script as:
notify "StarOffice" $FILENAME
In your GNUstep code you'd then listen for distributed notifications
from the StarOffice application.
David
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