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"tm" command line timer
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don570


Joined: 10 Mar 2010
Posts: 2457
Location: Ontario
PostPosted: Thu 17 Feb 2011, 19:53    Post subject: GUI Project for tm  
I decided to add a message field to the GUI
and to localize it using Zigbert's method.

ptmtimer-1.3.pet

and here's the locals(French,German,Spanish)
ptmtimer-NLS-1.3.pet


Here's how I added a message field...
Code:

<frame '$LOC200'>
<hbox> 
  <entry>
    <default>'$LOC201' </default>
    <variable>MESSAGE</variable>
  </entry>
</hbox>
</frame>


There is now three variable values that I pass to 'tm'
Code:
/usr/local/ptmtimer/tm ${ENTRY} ${SND}  ${MESSAGE}


Following Zigbert's method , I create a folder /usr/local/ptmtimer/
to hold the program but the app has to be launched from an executable
path so I create a small script just to launch the app.
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PostPosted: Thu 03 Mar 2011, 13:15    Post subject:  
Pmusic 1.6.4 has got a -B switch witch makes it possible to use Pmusic as a dead simple (fast and low cpu usage) command-line player.


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don570


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Location: Ontario
PostPosted: Thu 10 Mar 2011, 19:00    Post subject: script loops a given number of sconds  
I made a change to tm script to make it loop indefinitely
with a given period (in seconds). It might be useful to
someone who has an operation that must be done continually,
like checking a file. I'm not a programmer so
I don't know how this script works. I was just tinkering.

Code:

#!/bin/sh
#This script loops endlessly  with a period of tsec
until [ -z 4 ]
do
tsec=9
n="0"
for ((i=0;i<=${tsec};i++)); do
n="$((${n} + 1))"
if [ "$n" == "${tsec}" ]; then

gxmessage  "Hello  Message"


fi
sleep 1
done
done
exit


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don570


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PostPosted: Thu 10 Mar 2011, 19:09    Post subject: change line  
If you change the line 'gxmessage "Hello Message"' to
Code:

yaf-splash   -bg orange  -fontsize x-large    -text  "  minutes is up.
 Timer has finished!!!           "  -close box &


there is slightly different behaviour as the message keeps popping up
and becomes very annoying.
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