[scribus-dev] GetText plugin inotify

[Craig Bradney]

On 21/05/13 8:04 AM, Craig Bradney wrote:
>
>
>
> 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.
>

At least, you'd need to implement for the 3 and generalise with a few wrapper classes if necessary.

Craig