Xmessage utility 2005-12-01 - By Garrick Staples
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On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 09:44:18AM -0400, Shaw, Marco alleged:
> What I'm looking for is a simple way to provide a user with
> a UI where they can pick their laptop. I have that part easily
> figured out.
>
> But what I'd like to happen is that if the user presses the
> button #1 ("Dave's laptop") below, for example, I'd like
> the stdout to print the variable "IP1"
>
> I thought I read the man page correctly, and something like
> this would work, but it doesn't:
>
> # xmessage -print -buttons "Dave's laptop:IP1" test
>
> Can I get IP1 to print to stdout when the button is pressed?
You want the exit values as the Mr. Haxby mentioned.
But just for fun, here's an example. It is a script I wrote so that my
girlfriend could easily deal with our Epson printer. It is certainly
not a nice, well-formed application, but it does the job after 5 minutes
of scripting :)
#!/bin/bash
output=levels
xmsg='xmessage -file - -buttons status,levels,nozzle-check,clean-head,done
-print -center -default done -timeout 60'
while :;do
case $output in
status) cmd=s;;
levels) cmd=i;;
nozzle-check) cmd=n;;
clean-head) cmd=c;;
*) exit ;;
esac
output=$(escputil -q${cmd}ur /dev/lp0 2>&1 | $xmsg)
done
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Garrick Staples, Linux/HPCC Administrator
University of Southern California
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