Re: [rox-devel] Scripted access to the pinboard

[Guido S. <gui...@fr...>]

Am 19.11.2003 17:16:38 schrieb(en) Stephen Watson:
> In message <20031119134842.GA5240@Benine>
>           Guido Schimmels <gui...@fr...> scribbled:
> 
> > Does ROX-Filer provide any convenience for adding/removing pinboard
> 
> > items?
> 
> Adding yes.  It's in the Appendix in the manual dealing with SOAP.
> It's the
> PinboardAdd method.  PinboardRemove does not yet exist, but I think
> it's in
> the TODO.

Ok, I've had a look. Passing the coordinates is a problem. I would have  
to do some form of "collision detection". That should be the filer's  
job. If I have to do this myself, the only way is to parse the config  
file. Then when I'm at it I can just as well commit the desired changes  
to the pinboard directly. So that's not very helpfull. And it can't be  
done with bash. I don't want Python involvement in the boot stage, so I  
would have to write a little utility in C. For my purposes I need full  
control over the pinboard. Should I go forward and write such a utility  
or can I expect the necessary additions to the filer anytime soon? I  
don't want to spend time with redundant efforts.