Re: [e-users] Wacky e16 feature request: Dynamic Menus

[David S. <on...@gm...>]

On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:23:25 +1000 Jochen Schröder
<cyc...@gm...> wrote:

> On 08/25/2010 03:06 PM, David Seikel wrote:
> > On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:16:46 -0600 James
> > Bowlin<bo...@mi...> wrote:
> >
> >> I think users could do some very interesting things with dynamics
> >> menus.  What I mean by a "dynamic menu" is a script that is in
> >> the ~/.e16/menus directory.  It can be linked to just like all
> >> the other menus but when it is selected, the program is run and
> >> the std output of the program forms the menu.  This is a direct
> >> analogy to CGI scripts on the web.  The current menus are like
> >> static pages and the dynamic menus would be like CGI scripts.
> >
> > This is precisely what I did with the e17 emu module.  No one used
> > it, and it bit rotted long ago.
> >
> 
> You can (could?) do that with emu? I was always planning to do
> something like that, i.e. for placing the output of top in a menu
> etc. Never realized that emu could do such a thing. Is it still
> working with current e17? I've to look into this.

Last time I tried it I remember it sometimes segfaulted when closing
down, and had issues with restarting.  No idea if it still works, but
it's still in SVN somewhere, you are welcome to look at it and use the
code for your own project.  I'm likely to try to resurrect the poor
dead emu sometime in the future, but I would not go holding your breath.

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