On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 04:13:24PM -0400, Buddy Bell wrote:
I am trying to modify elinks to reload and then save to file a certain
web page every five minutes. In the process of getting the html source
saved without a dialog requiring input I ran across the statement
std(data, def.source); at stmt 581 of menu.c under dialogs. It must
be what is saving the html but I can find no other reference to it
searching for std( in the source directories. Is it a subroutine, a
macro, a c statement? Using google I can't find anything on it. There
is also no man page for std. If you could explain to a relative newbie
were it comes from I would appreciate it. Thanks. BB
I believe that you are looking at the query_file routine in
src/dialogs/menu.c. std is a parameter to query_file.
Today's new word is callback: if you grep the source, you'll see that
functions call query_file with any of start_download, continue_download,
download, or save_formatted as the argument for std; these are called
callbacks. query_file needs to know what to do with the file, so to keep
it nice and generic, it takes a callback function either to call or to
pass as a callback to input_dialog so that the callback is eventually
registered as the callback for the OK button in the prompt for the
file's name.
The complicated type for the std parameter:
void (*std)(void *, unsigned char *)
is saying that std must be a pointer to a function that takes a void
pointer and a string and returns nothing (void). Any callback for
query_file must have this type. Other than that, there is nothing
special one must do to use a function as a callback. In tp_save
in src/session/download.c, for example, we have:
query_file(type_query-ses, type_query-uri, type_query,
continue_download, tp_cancel, 1);
continue_download is defined above:
static void
continue_download(void *data, unsigned char *file)
...
In C, continue_download and continue_download are equivalent
(AIUI). So, tp_save is passing query_file the callback
continue_download. Also, tp_cancel is given as the callback
for query_file's cancel parameter.
I hope that that helps,
--
Miciah Masters [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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