Hi Ivan,
your problem is not "do { }" but Exec - it does not wait for the command to
return - look for
PipeRead 'command 1>&2'
in man fvwm, i would put the commandstring in a small script
wget -nv http://www.riotingmanhattan.com/webcam/5thave.jpg -O - |\
convert -resize 200 - $[HOME]/.fvwm/icons/webcam1.png
for example $HOME/bin/getpic and use
Do { PipeRead $HOME/bin/getpic 1>&2 }
instead of your first line
Matthias
umh: i did not test it...
On Tue, 7 Mar 2006 18:05:29 +0600 "Ivan Butorin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I've written a little script which is get image from the web, resize
> it and display in widget. Here is the 'Init' part:
>
> Init
> Begin
> Do {Exec wget -nv
> http://www.riotingmanhattan.com/webcam/5thave.jpg -O - | convert
> -resize 200 - $[HOME]/.fvwm/icons/webcam1.png}
> Do {Exec echo "Downloaded & converted at $(date +%H:%M:%S)"}
> ChangeIcon 1 webcam1.png
> Do {Exec echo "Image has been changed at $(date +%H:%M:%S)"}
> End
>
> The 'PeriodicTasks' part of the script is the same, except one 'If'
> statement which checks if it is already time to get new image.
>
> The problem is that commands are ran in wrong order. Here is the
> output taken from .xsession-errors:
>
> Downloaded & converted at 17:55:00
> Image has been changed at 17:55:00
> 17:55:02 URL:http://www.riotingmanhattan.com/webcam/5thave.jpg
> [29046/29046] -> "-" [1]
> Downloaded & converted at 17:55:20
> Image has been changed at 17:55:20
> 17:55:21 URL:http://www.riotingmanhattan.com/webcam/5thave.jpg
> [28753/28753] -> "-" [1]
>
> As you can see the script first reports that image has been
> downloaded, then it updates image in the widget, then reports that it
> has changed the image and only after all these stuff it starts to
> download the image.
>
> Why?
>
> fvwm 2.5.15 compiled on Jan 19 2006 at 07:41:07
> with support for: ReadLine, Stroke, XPM, PNG, Shape, XShm, SM,
> Xinerama, XRender, XFT, NLS
>
> Thank you,
> --
> Ivan Butorin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
