The GLIBs provides functionality for the creation and manipulation of application configuration files. This task is already pretty easy to implement using Tcl list and dictionary functionality and hitherto I've used it all the time. But, having seen how useful this functionality is, I thought that it was time to implement the bindings. The way in which this is achieved is to treat such lists as objects so that multiple files can be opened for an application. This will allow the use of such lists to be more than simply an application config file. One of my pet apps is the scanning and creation of djvu ebooks. Sometimes the settings for a particular page need to be modified in order to get a good scan. Creating a config page for to control the page creation operation would be the better than an a 'one setting fits all' approach.
Given this module some attention today. Added some of the more package wide options to the module and created customised handler for setting the month. (For some odd reason months are are counted 0-11 whereas days are 1-31.) There's still a little more to do to this one including the addition of code to store diary details. Here's the working test script to show the range of options at work. The percentage substitution string item %e explores something that I've been toying with, the name of the signal/event that initiated the call. Ok, a script can keep its own internal trace but who knows, it might prove useful. #--------------- # calendarTest.tcl #--------------- # Author: William J Giddings # Date: 07/05/09 #--------------- #!/bin/sh # the next line restarts using tclsh \ exec tclsh "$0" "$@" #--------------- package require Gnocl set cal [gnocl::calendar] $cal configure -day 8 -month 7 -year 1956 $cal configure -rowHeight 1 -colWidth 1 $ca...
Comments