[Xastir] Feature idea for Xastir

[William McKeehan]

Any language that is simple enough for the basic user (and maybe one that
could eventually have a wizard in front of it), but is included in the build
of Xastir so that you create/manage the script in Xastir so it's portable to
any Xastir client (and a way to transmit the script over the air would he
REALLY sweet).

-- 
William McKeehan

On Tue, August 28, 2007 11:03 am, Gerry Creager 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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