Re: FVWM: Variable title of FvwmScript

From: Olivier Chapuis <olivier.chapuis_at_free.fr>
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 17:57:16 +0100

On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 03:17:31PM +0100, Uwe Pross wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I wrote a simple FvwmSript which controls and displays the
> status of an isdn interface. I planed to invoke this script
> several times with different script arguments for different
> internet providers. E.g.
>
> Module FvwmScript isdn.FvwmScript providername1 ippp0 ippp5
> Module FvwmScript isdn.FvwmScript providername2 ippp1 ippp6
> Module FvwmScript isdn.FvwmScript providername3 ippp2 ippp7
>
> I tried to make the window title generic to get the
> different script-module swallowed by FvwmButtons. But when
> using a line like:
>
> WindowTitle (GetScriptArgument 1)
>
> I got a parse error from the module. It seems that the
> windows title can be a fixed string only.
>

Yes, unfortunately this is a "grave" miss feature. At multip times
I thought to implemented ChangeTitle 0 str, but never do it ...

> Is this true? If so, is there a way to have different
> versions of the same script running and get them swallowed
> by FvwmButtons?
>

I think that there is a real bug here. FvwmButtons seems troubled when
it has to swallow 1 apps (or more) with "name" foo and when 2 windows
(or more) with the name "foo" map or are already mapped.

Regards, Olivier
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Received on Fri Jan 09 2004 - 13:18:22 GMT

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