On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 06:42:19PM +0000, Mikhael Goikhman wrote: > On 01 Feb 2005 12:41:25 +0100, Uwe Pross wrote: > > > > On 29 Jan 2005 at 14:26:03 +1100, Scott Smedley wrote: > > > > > Further examples are available at: > > > > > > http://users.tpg.com.au/users/scottie7/tmp/config.if > > > > > > ... > > > > > > Any comments/criticism most welcome. > > > > AddToMenu my_menu > > if ! ShellCmd /opt/myprogram > > + "My Program menu" Menu my_program_menu > > endif > > > > This should be possible.? > > Well, strictly speaking. you may already do this intuitively: > > AddToMenu my_menu > Test (x myprogram) + "My Program menu" Menu my_program_menu > > Similarly, you may already implement any need for if-else using TestRc. > But I do agree that in the general case, the real if-else-elsif-endif > syntax is a better (more intuitive) attempt at scripting than TestRc, > functions and Break. > > Well, this new syntax is very similar to the one suggested in the thread: > http://www.hpc.uh.edu/fvwm/archive/0108/msg00044.html > At that time the short construct made sence, now it is already possible. > > This patch seems to be good and complete overall. It may be applied later > (probably after 2.6.0, if we want to ever release it).
Some time ago (strictly speeking on 4 october 2004 ;-) I've sent here a small patch which can do similar things, but with additional help of PipeRead (so no ShellCmd). My patch doesn't provide so much fexibility as the if-else-elsif-endif syntax, but has one big advantage: it's completly transparent for users, that don't want to use it. Virtualy no change in any config should be needed, for fvwm with my patch applied. My patch simply adds a new Test option named Compare for comparing two values. That's why PipeRead is still needed - you have to set the values to compare. Details could be found in the archive: http://www.hpc.uh.edu/fvwm/archive/0410/msg00033.html I'd really like to see this patch merged into main tree before 2.6.0, but I don't have much hope... ;-) Of course if-else-elsif-endif syntax would be even nicer to have, but I agree that this can wait till 2.6.0 (together with extended conditionals: Name/IconName/Class/Resource/AnyName :-( ) PS. As usual sorry for my english. -- Rafal Bisingier
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