Creating a variable list Pashua, OS X & Bash.
- by S1syphus
First of all, for those that don't know pashua is a tool for creating native Aqua dialog windows.
An example of what a window config looks like is
# pashua_run()
# Define what the dialog should be like
# Take a look at Pashua's Readme file for more info on the syntax
conf="
# Set transparency: 0 is transparent, 1 is opaque
*.transparency=0.95
# Set window title
*.title = Introducing Pashua
# Introductory text
tb.type = text
tb.default = "HELLO WORLD"
tb.height = 276
tb.width = 310
tb.x = 340
tb.y = 44
if [ -e "$icon" ]
then
# Display Pashua's icon
conf="$conf
img.type = image
img.x = 530
img.y = 255
img.path = $icon"
fi
if [ -e "$bgimg" ]
then
# Display background image
conf="$conf
bg.type = image
bg.x = 30
bg.y = 2
bg.path = $bgimg"
fi
pashua_run "$conf"
echo " tb = $tb"
The problem is, Pashua can't really get output from stdout, but it can get arguments.
Following on from what Dennis Williamson posted here. What ideally it should do is generate an output file based on information from a text file, To executed in pashua_run ore add the pashua_run around the window argument:
count=1
while read -r i
do
echo "AB${count}.type = openbrowser"
echo "AB${count}.label = Choose a master playlist file"
echo "AB${count}.width=310"
echo "AB${count}.tooltip = Blabla filesystem browser"
echo "some text with a line from the file: $i"
(( count++ ))
done < TEST.txt >> long.txt
SO the output is
AB1.type = openbrowser
AB1.label = Choose a master playlist file
AB1.width=310
AB1.tooltip = Blabla filesystem browser
some text with a line from the file: foo
AB2.type = openbrowser
AB2.label = Choose a master playlist file
AB2.width=310
AB2.tooltip = Blabla filesystem browser
some text with a line from the file: bar
AB3.type = openbrowser
AB3.label = Choose a master playlist file
AB3.width=310
AB3.tooltip = Blabla filesystem browser
some text with a line from the file: dev
AB4.type = openbrowser
AB4.label = Choose a master playlist file
AB4.width=310
AB4.tooltip = Blabla filesystem random
So if there is a clever way to get the output of that and place it into pashua run would be cool, on the fly: I.E load te contents of TEST.txt and generate the place it into pashua_run, I've tried using cat and opening the file... but because it's in Pashua_run it doesn't work, is there a smart way to break out then back in?
Or the second way which I was thinking, was create get the output then append it into the middle text file containing the pashua runtime, then execute it, maybe slightly hacky, but I would imagine it will do the job.
Any ideas?
++ I know I probably could make my life a lot easier, by doing this in actionscript and cocoa, although at present don't have time for such a learning curve, although I do plan to get round to it.
