[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 18 Apr 2002 13:46:21 -0600, Gregg Dameron wrote:
Bottom line - PipeRead is brilliant, indispensable - I'd like to see itbe more
so.
My guess is that calling many shell utilities (read: many processes) is
sometimes more expensive than one perl script doing the work.
Moreover in pre-2.5.1 you may embed perl in fvwmrc without any additional
processes to be called at all. You should only start FvwmPerl once and do
'SendToModule FvwmPerl eval perl-code' as many times as you want.
Does this operate synchronously? One of the main reasons I use PipeRead
is to do maths in fvwm functions i.e.:
PipeRead "bash -c 'echo some_fvwm_function $(($w * 10))'"
which will call some function with the windowid times 10. If FvwmPerl
could do this it would be very useful to me (even though I'd have to
learn perl first :-\ )
Cheers,
Tim.
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