[scribus-dev] GetText plugin inotify

[Craig Bradney]

On 21/05/2013, at 7:59, "a.l.e" <ale.comp_06 at xox.ch> wrote:

> hi ezequiel,
>> Hi guys,
>> 
>> A friend of mine (Javier in Cc) who edits a news magazine has asked if
>> it was possible to implement some sort
>> of "Dynamic Text Frame". The idea is to have the content of the Text
>> Frame dynamically updated when
>> the source of the text frame changes.
>> 
>> So I thought it could be easily achieved using some inotify magic,
>> detecting changes on the "imported" source file
>> and refreshing the Text Frame.
>> 
>> Looking at the Scribus source code I noticed there's something called
>> GTPlugins, which seems the way to go.
>> 
>> My questions are:
>> 
>> 1. Am I on the right track?
>> 
>> 2. Can anyone think of another way of doing this "dynamical" feature?
>> 
>> 3. Does this feature correspond to any of the features in the roadmap [1] ?
>> 
>> [1] http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/1.5.x_Roadmap
>> 
>> Thanks!
> 
> there is much interest for that feature.
> 
> it's not that hard to create, but quite hard to get right!
> 
> the main problem is: what happens with the (typographic) formattings when you reimport the text?
> 
> once you have solution that conceptually works for you, you can go on and program it... :-)
> but if you want to have it in the mainstream scribus you will have to find a solution that works for most people... and this might be a not so easy problem to solve.
> 
> but i'm not sure that it's possible to do create it as a plugin...
> 
> if you need further help, just ask!
> 
> 

You would need to work with cross platform notification if that is how you would see the file changes, ie Windows (7 and higher), OSX and *nix.

Craig