[scribus] startup script problems

[a.l.e]

hi albert,


> i have a (small?) problem:
> for a project of mine i'm trying to do some automatic processing with
> scribus, and because i did not find a better way yet, i try to do the
> following:
> * start scribus with a custom preferences file witch includes a
> startup script
> * in the startup script, wait for the main window to apaer because
> some commands from the scribus package (for example newDocument do
> not seem to like beeing called before that)
> * to the processing
> * quit scribus from the script
> 
> while beeing a bit dirty because i have to start the gui even though
> nobody will use it, this workflow should work, but for some reason i
> can't get the code from the from samples/startup_hook.py to run with
> scribus 1.4.0 rc3 (debian unstable). i also tried to use PyQt4
> instead of 3 since scribus 1.4 is qt4 based as i looks like.
> 
> from what i see from debugging, the eventhandler gets registred
> correctly, but i never get the callback.
> 
> can anybody please point me in the right direction on how to wait for
> the application startup to finish?

there is an effort going on to get this correctly working...

do you want to join... if possible with some c++ knowledges?

ciao
a.l.e