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[01micko]

[technosaurus]

I was trying to get some more documentation on GTK Dialog and figured out a reason why there may not be much documentation thus far. It seems that it was an intermediated step / building block for these:

CUI http://linux.pte.hu/~pipas/CUI/index.html
GUI Completion http://linux.pte.hu/~pipas/GUIcompletion/index.html

So goes the development cycle on a project with a small or one man team. They do look pretty promising for a couple of my projects (Pcompile in particular) Has anyone here done anything with them yet?

[disciple]

I looked at them the other day, but I can't remember why I gave up on them. I think one had some unreasonable (gnome?) dependencies.

[zigbert]

Make the gui scalable
>> Did you know that it is possible to make gtkdialog windows fully scalable? That means to be able to drag the window corner, and make the gui bigger.

As long as a <tree>, <table>, <list> or <edit> widget is enclosed ONLY by a <hbox> OR <vbox>, the widget will remain scalable both horizontally and vertically. Pfind, Pmusic and Pprocess uses various solutions of this.

>> Note about frames
If you enclose a <frame> with <hbox> or <vbox>, you set a fixed size of the frame. If you instead put the <hbox>/<vbox> definitions inside the <frame>, the frame will dynamically scale to fit gui.

[sunburnt]

Hi zigbert; I need help with the "tree", I don`t see how the sub levels are controlled.

[zigbert]

sunburnt
I had no idea that sub-levels was supported.
I really hope you see the light and tell us how it all works. I also want this.
Have you seen any documentation at all about sub-levels?


Sigmund

[sunburnt]

The GTK widget your using is probably a different one.
Here`s the tree from GTK 0.59.8, the floppy has 2 tree levels of depth.
But I see no method by which it`s done or to control it.
The xDialog controls are completely different of course...

[zigbert]

Be careful with the use of subshells, and slow commands as sed, ps, expr, cat ... This is of course most important when building a loop.

This script takes 3.0 seconds on my system

[zigbert]

Rewritten:

The pairs of code shows how to do the same operation in 2 different ways. The speed differs a lot. First an example why avoid 'cat', then why never use 'expr' if speed matters. My system needed 4 seconds to calculate 1+1 thousand times with 'expr'. Using the builtin bash command it took 'no time'.

[sunburnt]

Thanks zigbert; I need to brush up on true bash replacements for the "odd" commands.
I added your examples to my code snips collection.
It will help for my removable drive auto mounter app. as it has a daemon loop.
The mount and unmount functions don`t matter so much as they only run occasionally.

I`ve looked for Bash replacements for sed, but don`t see the same functionality.
Same goes for: grep, tr, cut, paste, awk, comm, and the "if" statement.

### In looking at the tree control it seems that the sub levels are made
if the node is labeled the same as the one that came before it. Weird !!!
I modified it and the sub levels didn`t work properly, I think it`s just a bad control.
I need to find docs. for gtkDialog3, there must be a newer tree control...

[sunburnt]

zigbert; A problem with usage of your substitue for the "cat" command:

[sunburnt]

It appears the command only gives the first word in the file, as shown:

[amigo]

This works:
PP=$(<"/proc/partitions")

PP=$(<"/proc/partitions") ; echo $PP
major minor #blocks name 22 0 78125000 hdc 22 1 1954480 hdc1 22 2 1955520 hdc2 22 3 10000368 hdc3 22 4 1 hdc4 22 5 19999696 hdc5 22 6 44214376 hdc6 3 0 1255968 hda 3 1 251968 hda1 3 2 1003968 hda2 3 64 78150744 hdb 3 65 1036161 hdb1 3 66 2056320 hdb2 3 67 7181055 hdb3 3 68 1 hdb4 3 69 10273536 hdb5 3 70 20555136 hdb6 3 71 37045858 hdb7

I've created a few pure-bash replacements for some tools -there's even a pure-bash wget!

I'll attach the tarball containing them here, since my site seems to be down at the moment.
This is what's included:
basename
cat
cut
dirname
grep
head
rev
sort
tail
tr
uniq
wc
wget
which

If you work out any new ones, let me know so they can be added to the collection.

Edit: You mentioned sed, that would be very diifficult to implement. However, the included 'tr' can do some of the same stuff. You can use it to do simple replacements like sed does. 'normal' tr only lets you replace single characters, but my version lets you replace however many you want, so it will do what sed does in that respect.

[zigbert]

sunburnt
To keep format

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