Been playing with Appwrappers for a few hours and got thinking about
what can be done with them. The script that launches an executable
and passes it the command line string makes it very versatile. I
think I can use them to add Nautilus script style functions to
GWorkspace. That got me thinking that it would great if there were a
set of command line callable GNUstep dialog boxes kind of on the order
of Zenity. Yes, I know I can use Zenity but I want the consistent
look and feel of GNUstep. With that I could, for example, set up an
Appwrapper called Droid-Vid containing a script that encodes a video
using ffmpeg to be used on my Android phone. If called from the "open
with" right-click in GWorkspace it might just pop up a dialog to tell
me when it is finished, but if run directly it could put up a file
open dialog to let me choose a video to encode and possibly another
for where to save. I think I would prefer several very small
programs, one for each type of Dialog but the Zenity approach of
having one executable with a large number of command line options
might be better.
Should start trying to hack apart NSPanelTest to see if I can make
something work but am just starting to learn this stuff and have no
idea how to make a program accept a command line switch.
I am sure one of you smart coders out there could do this in a hour.
I am just starting on the coding side of things (hacked Ink apart so I
could get it to open .plist and .sh files) and while I want to get
proficient in that area, I would rather play with extending
Appwrappers for a few days.
BTW, I started putting the .sh extension on my scripts inside the
Appwrappers just so I could open them with my Ink hack.
So, if any of you smart Hackers out there want to throw me a bone in
the form of a few command-line configurable dialog boxes it would be
greatly appreciated.
-j
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