Converting our in House Scripts to PerlGTK

[Neal ManBear]

Texstar has asked that we convert our in house apps to perlGTK, so that they can be added to the control center.
This post is to ask that those with perl scripting knowledge / ability join in on accomplishing this. If you can do this, it will be appreciated.

My knowledge of perl is almost non-existent. If I'm very very careful, I can edit a perl script, but I'm as likely to break it as not.

[slax]

I can offer my help, but i'm also not proficient with perl.
I am good with several programing languages, so maybe i'll menage, but still there should be some experienced perl coder to guide this project.

regards

[Neal ManBear]

I can offer my help, but i'm also not proficient with perl.
I am good with several programing languages, so maybe i'll menage, but still there should be some experienced perl coder to guide this project.

regards

Thank you ver much, slax. I'm glad to have you on this project.

It would be great to have an experienced perl programmer here. I think I will post in the Sandbox. Maybe there is someone who can code perl and hasn't seen this thread yet.

[gseaman]

I threaded pearls once. Does that count?

Galen

[Neal ManBear]

Which scripts and where to find them?

Thanks, ongoto.

To start, EZSwitch. I'll upload more ASAP.

[Mark342]

Edit: Found out its not the best way to do it. 
Now I'm gonna focus on ugtk2/mygtk2 since these are the GUI libraries that are used
on top of GTK to create the GUI's in the PCC + its tools.
http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Policies/DrakXGui

[YouCanToo]

I threaded pearls once. Does that count?

Galen

Does a pearl necklace count   

[Texstar]

I threaded pearls once. Does that count?

Galen

Does a pearl necklace count   

 

[Nameless]

Which scripts and where to find them?

I second that (and btw I'm a experienced perl hacker)

[Neal ManBear]

Ongoto and I have been working on this.

Ongoto's latest script and the .desktop file --
http://nbrks.com/neal/scripts/perl/EZSwitch/ezSwitch_gtk.txt
http://nbrks.com/neal/scripts/perl/EZSwitch/EZSwitch_perlGTK.desktop

It works great but has not been integrated into PCC.

[Neal ManBear]

Yes. Definitely do not use your main system for testing. Use a test box, test partition or a virtual machine.

[slax]

Maybe this can felp fpr the other scripts:

http://ui-dialog.sourceforge.net/

Perl wrapper for zenity an other dialogs...

[Neal ManBear]

Yes. Definitely do not use your main system for testing. Use a test box, test partition or a virtual machine.

Too late I already tested it. Luckily, everything went well.
When we gonna see this little pe(a)rl integrated in PCC?

Get ready for it -----   "It will be ready, when it is ready." (Standard policy, you know.)

[Mark342]

Any reason you didn't make a preview button that executes a sub similar to this?

Code: [Select]

sub preview_clicked
{
   (`plymouthd`);
   (`plymouth --show-splash; sleep 10; plymouth --quit`);
}
 I'm just naturally curious because I did it in a Perl GUI I made.

 Oh, and w00t:

click for full size

Though I'm sure texstar already knows how to do this, because I saw some PCLinuxOS specific edits in the two files I had to edit to do this.
So its just a personal accomplishment of mine.

We just need to figure out how to embed the GUI because currently it has to open up a new window.
Guess I'll take a look at the source of some drak modules to see how it works.

[Neal ManBear]

Mark342,
Excellent! Please post your updated script.