From kde-core-devel  Thu Jul 11 19:20:42 2002
From: Zack Rusin <zackrat () att ! net>
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 19:20:42 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: KDE scripting architecture.
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On Thursday 11 July 2002 14:31, ian reinhart geiser wrote:
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> On Thursday 11 July 2002 02:23 pm, Zack Rusin wrote:
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> Hi, please take a look at dcop ;)
> It does exactly what you want to do.

No, not really, that's the point. Now let's say I have a Kopete like app=20
and want to have a script which writes everything people wrote me while=20
I was being away to a file and says something to everyone who messaged=20
me. This would involve hooking up a plugin that would be called when:
a) I'm away,
b) I get a message,
but iff one of these conditions is satisfied. This would involve=20
connecting handlers within the plugin to the exposed signals.
So within application I would call "Menu->Load Plugin..." the plugin=20
would be loaded and the right signals connected to the corresponding=20
handlers within the plugin. With DCOP It's not a problem to write a=20
script that would write contents of a message to a file and respond to=20
users, but it's a problem to write a script which would be loaded in=20
the background during the whole application execution time and do it's=20
work only if certain signals/prerequisites are satisfied.

Zack

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"In Murphy We Turst"=20