[Xastir] Feature idea for Xastir

[Richard Polivka]

Age before beauty.... perl before python???
(duck)

73 from 807,

Richard, N6NKO

Gerry Creager <gerry.creager at tamu.edu> wrote: Argh.  Not VBscript!  XML?  perl?

William McKeehan wrote:
> Has anyone thought about adding a scripting capability within Xastir?
> 
> I'm thinking about something like some VB script (or similar) that would allow
> a relatively non-developer to create little applications which lets Xastir do
> the heavy lifting.
> 
> An example of the type of thing that I'm thinking about would be keeping track
> of how many runners have pasted a particular point. An Xastir station at that
> particular point would execute this script which would prompt for a number.
> The user would enter a number and the script/Xastir would handle the rest. The
> rest could be creating and sending a message to the NCS station with the
> updated information or it could be creating an object using this information.
> 
> Am I off my rocker or is this an idea worth considering?

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