Hello, I would enjoy to patch sswriter with your feature but actualy I'm rewriting it with a totaly new design. In my new version, sswriter is composed of a daemon and several tools to start/get some "monitoring elements" and can be used by the network. The final purpose is to have tools wich can monitor a group of computers and print some charts on a web site.
But I want to keep a meaning to use it for a status bar same as before with more ease (by introduce the concept of profile to load a configuration in a file for example). Unfortunatly I'm not really ready to distribute this version of sswriter before a moment... :s Regards, Jonathan 'Sky' Squirawski Le Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:58:34 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > Hi, > > I used to have a plenty of perl scripts to fill the status line, but find > the native way of doing this considerably faster => better. > > When I found sswriter on this thread in May I was missing the ability to > get the content of a file at particular place in the output. After this > feature have been implemented a month later the main thing I was missing > was the ability to limit the number of chars in particular areas of the > output. > > I need this, because I like to have the more important part on the right > (battery, network ifaces, load, etc.) and the less important on the left, > near the wmii/dwm tags. The less important part tends to have unpredictable > size, e.g. incoming instant messages, and sometimes eats the space for the > important part. > > I have implemented the areas concept some weeks after that. Please find > below the patch for 0.3.1. If it gets corrupted by the mail transfer, I can > provided it through http, too. Just drop a line, if needed. The code is far > from good quality -- suggestions are welcome. > > You can start an area in the format string with ``['' and close it with > (surprise :o) ) ``]''. With ``--area max1 max2 max3'' on the command line, > the maximal width of the first, second, and third opened area can be > specified. > > The perl script I used before implements an extended version of the areas > concept: If the content of the area is larger than the given maximum, it > scrolls the content with configurable speed (chars/sec). (No status has to > be kept by the algorithm, it is based on the current time). I would like to > have this implemented in sswriter too. This is on the top of my todo for > sswriter when I have more time to spend (and this is not going to be soon, > I am afraid). Next thing is wide chars support. Often, the files I print > have non-ascii (Cyrillic) chars -- would be nice to handle them correctly. > If somebody has already implemented this feature, please let me know. > > But for now I am comfortable with this version, too. > > Hope this helps to somebody. > > :o) >