[openbeos] Re: Scripting
- From: "Daniel Reinhold" <danielr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 14:50:42 CDT
Sounds like a good newsletter article! (hint, hint)
;)
>
>Hello,
>
>For the communication between print_server and the preference app /
>BPrintJob API I have been using standard scripting. This is really
nice to
>do (if raw speed isn't an issue), as you can also "see" the protocol
>documentation by (in my case) typing "hey print_server GETSUITES",
this
>dumps all supported scripting vocabulary in the Terminal as output.
This
>helps keeping docs up-to-date, and is easy for people needing specific
>functionality in shell scripts (i.e. selecting a specific printer as
>default, for example).
>
>On another note, wouldn't it be a good idea to keep tools like hey &
>stubgen in our CVS tree? I'm pretty sure some mods will be made to
them for
>OpenBeOS specific functionality.
>
>Regards,
>
>
>Ithamar R. Adema
>Information Engineering Associates Ltd
>http://www.ieadev.com
>
>
>
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