[Xastir] Scripts

[Kyle Kienapfel]

The smarts for that to work would have to be written in several
languages, but I guess Smarts.pl Smarts.sh Smarts.py etc to read the
preferences file wouldn't be too hard, actually if the preferences is
written in shell variable assignments, then only languages that deal
with text better have to do thinking.

It's a good idea, probbly make good use of dirname and $0 to call the
preferences file (I was going to ask how to call a script thats in the
same dir as the script, without knowing the script dirs, and without
being in the scripts dir :)

Heres some attempts
This might work for shell scripts:
. $(dirname $0)/preferences

PHP:
include_once(dirname(_FILE_)."/preferences.php");

Perl
I forgot perl :(
require something something

On 9/25/06, Chip G. <n1mie at ct.metrocast.net> wrote:
> I had a thought regarding the scripts included with Xastir. They seem
> to be pretty good, but they require some manual modification if
> Xastir is not installed in the default location. Seems like there
> could be a single file which contained the path to the application.
> Then each of the scripts could read in this "preference" and utilize
> it. That would eliminate the complaints from cvs that my local file
> has been modified and is different then the one on the repository. It
> would also minimize the amount of modifications required to scripts
> to get them working.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> 73,
> --de Chip (N1MIE) FN41bn
>
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