Dynamic Floating Tag (FT) content? Here's what's in my mind.
Would it be possible to extend FloatingTag (FT) @Create to pass a user
specified [EMAIL PROTECTED] as part of FT's event routine? Then have FT
periodically update and display the button text by showing a string
returned by [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Here's how a tag user could create a weather applet by tagging any window
of their choosing - which window/app isn't the point here. For example, to
display a weather applet:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]("active",".weather")
.weather is a user-specified script/label that returns a string value.
Since arg(2) isn't null, FT saves it into a map Tag["action"]=arg(2) and
knows that, instead of creating a fixed icon for the tag it has to display
and periodically update the button text with something like
*info expr( eval(tag["action"]++"("++Parameters++")") )
/ I'm not sure if the above syntax is correct, what I mean is "show the
string returned by [EMAIL PROTECTED](Parameters) /
where Parameters is a conventional set of values that FT's always provides
to the user script, such as TagID / name, etc.
Of course, one may argue that you can easily create a similar weather
applet with a command list *info item, so why bother creating one with a
FT? I see more value if we can come up with a simple way for the FT code
to extract data from the application window that runs under the tag.
There's also some value in the FT providing a standard user interface,
such as its right click menu.
Maybe this is too farfetched or wild?
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