"tm" command line timer

[don570]

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...

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

There is now three variable values that I pass to 'tm'

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/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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[zigbert]

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.


Sigmund

[don570]

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.

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#!/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]

If you change the line 'gxmessage "Hello Message"' to

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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.