On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 03:25:10PM -0800, STEFFL, ERIK *Internet* (SBCSI) wrote:
> just wondering - I tried alsaplayer yesterday (after long time) and I > couldn't find any way to remotely control it from command line (something > like xmms does - e.g. xmms -s will stop the currently playing xmms etc.). > IIRC there was some sort of scripting supported in kde, is there anything Yeah, I need to add a socket interface to do some remote controlling. Luckily there is now an interface plugin API so this should be easy enough. > similar in gnome (or more precisely gtk)? is anything like that planned? GTK+ only provides GUI calls, remote controlling a program requires a custom piece of code since there's no universal Linux/Unix scripting API. I'd like to keep the core of the player GNOME/KDE free. Anyway, alsaplayer-remote is high on my TODO list. Andy
