X11 bindings and shell bindings

2008-09-18 Thread Ishan Arora
Hi, Is there a procedure to get mouse position. And is there a procedure to synchronously run a shell code and return the output as a String. Thanks. Regards, Ishan

Re: X11 bindings and shell bindings

2008-09-18 Thread Jon Wilson
Hi Ishan, * There are guile bindings for gtk and for gnome; I don't know of any other X11 bindings. * Try (system ls -l). Look it up in the POSIX section in the manual. Regards, Jon Ishan Arora wrote: Hi, Is there a procedure to get mouse position. And is there a procedure to

Re: X11 bindings and shell bindings

2008-09-18 Thread Ishan Arora
Hi, Thanks for the reply. I tried system. It calls the code synchronously, and returns a number for success or failure of the command. Is there a way such that the stdout output of the command is returned as a string? Thanks again. Regards, Ishan On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 7:22 PM, Jon Wilson

Re: X11 bindings and shell bindings

2008-09-18 Thread dsmich
Ishan Arora [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Thanks for the reply. I tried system. It calls the code synchronously, and returns a number for success or failure of the command. Is there a way such that the stdout output of the command is returned as a string? Thanks again. Try

Re: X11 bindings and shell bindings

2008-09-18 Thread Neil Jerram
2008/9/18 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Ishan Arora [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Thanks for the reply. I tried system. It calls the code synchronously, and returns a number for success or failure of the command. Is there a way such that the stdout output of the command is returned as a string?

Re: X11 bindings and shell bindings

2008-09-18 Thread JonWilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Oh right. My apologies for not answering the question you asked... Ishan Arora wrote: Hi, Thanks for the reply. I tried system. It calls the code synchronously, and returns a number for success or failure of the command. Is there a way such

Re: X11 bindings and shell bindings

2008-09-18 Thread Paul Emsley
Ishan Arora wrote: Hi, Is there a procedure to get mouse position. I guess there may be a way via X11, but it is not clear to me. What you might want to be doing is knowing the coordinates of a click in a canvas, which is not the same thing (and easier). And is there a procedure to

Re: X11 bindings and shell bindings

2008-09-18 Thread Andy Wingo
On Thu 18 Sep 2008 14:38, Ishan Arora [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a procedure to get mouse position. No, but it's relatively easy to write a minimal set of Xlib bindings, binding only the functions you need. Griddy has some bindings: bzr get http://wingolog.org/bzr/griddy Andy --

Re: X11 bindings and shell bindings

2008-09-18 Thread Linas Vepstas
2008/9/18 Andy Wingo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu 18 Sep 2008 14:38, Ishan Arora [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a procedure to get mouse position. No, but it's relatively easy to write a minimal set of Xlib bindings, binding only the functions you need. Griddy has some bindings: Its nuts

Re: X11 bindings and shell bindings

2008-09-18 Thread Andy Wingo
Hello! On Thu 18 Sep 2008 21:37, Linas Vepstas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2008/9/18 Andy Wingo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu 18 Sep 2008 14:38, Ishan Arora [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a procedure to get mouse position. No, but it's relatively easy to write a minimal set of Xlib bindings,