From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Jan 21 2003 - 21:10:42 EST
--- Omer Zak <omerz@actcom.co.il> wrote: >
> On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Tomas Frydrych wrote:
>
> > AbiWord has a decent scripting framework in place
> > which makes it possible to script it in pretty
> > much anything decent.
>
> Excellent!
>
> > I think we would benefit from some simple
> > scripting language very easy to use, something so
> > simple that the church secretary might be able to
> > use that for very basic stuff.
>
> For very simple/beginner level tasks, Tcl is the
> answer. If someone wants to do something more
> complicated, which requires real program design and
> programming, he can learn another scripting
language.
If you strongly feel that AbiWord needs Tcl support
on top of the existing Perl and Python support, please
file an RFE. That doens't mean anybody will implement
it any time now but somebody might.
> Now, does AbiWord have a mechanism to change the INS
> key binding so that it'll invoke a script (which
> will pop up a dialog, which needs an extra mouse
> click to be dismissed) instead of changing the
> caret color?
No it doesn't. You should file an RFE to get APIs
added/exported to trap arbitrary keypresses by
scripting interface. It should be doable if somebody
has the interest and the time to add it.
Andrew Dunbar.
> Omer
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