Hi, This is not a Gentoo thing at all but I don't know where else to ask so I'm coming here. Delete if you're not interested.
I have a suspicion this is some big scripting job. Scripting to any great extent is something I know nothing about. I'm hoping that maybe someone can point me in the right direction. Thanks in advance. Within Gnome is there a way that I could double click on a file in their browser and then cause the system to start executing a program that asks me questions about what to do? I have some files that are used in a specialized audio program. Each individual file contain multiple instruments. I'd like the script to: 1) Check the file for available instruments. I know how to do this (sort of) at the command line using something like "gigdump filename.gig | grep Instrument". That almost works well enough for this task but it does produce one extra line I'll need to get rid of. 2) Pop up a window and tell me about the instrument list 3) Ask me which on I want to use 4) Ask me a couple more questions that I answer 5) Take the set of answers and send it over the network using some command like echo "command 1" | nc localhost 8888 echo "command 2" | nc localhost 8888 I know nothing of doing stuff like this but it would be very helpful. The windows program that uses these files of course has a fancy file browser that allows you to do this with a couple of click & drag operations. The Linux program has nothing so I'm doing this by hand and it's very tedious. Thanks for taking the time to read and possibly respond. Cheers, Mark -- [email protected] mailing list
