On Aug 28, 2007, at 8:56 AM, William McKeehan wrote:
Has anyone thought about adding a scripting capability within Xastir?
We're on unix, so it's already there - it's called perl. (:
An example of the type of thing that I'm thinking about would be keeping track of how many runners have pasted a particular point. An Xastir station at that particular point would execute this script which would prompt for a number. The user would enter a number and the script/Xastir would handle the rest. The rest could be creating and sending a message to the NCS station with the updated information or it could be creating an object using this information.
I could see this trivially handled in a perl script. If there are electronic methods for counting, it would be easy to generate reports automatically (maybe as some sort of signpost object, with the number being the # of runners who have passed?)
Am I off my rocker or is this an idea worth considering?
I've got perl scripts that both generate and consume APRS data using xastir's server port. I need to update the "generate" scripts to use xastir's UDP client program to make gating to RF easier.
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