Re: Error while building Preferences.app

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 22 May 2008, at 01:59, Yen-Ju Chen wrote:

> As for services, the first issue you mentioned is to 'allow GNUstep to
> use command-line or script as service' and the second one is to 'allow
> non-GNUstep application to use GNUstep service'.
> I have a small application for the first issue written a few months  
> ago:
> http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/etoile/branches/yjchen/ScriptServices/
> See README for details. It basically passes data from GNUstep
> application to scripts.

There is also the example provided with GNUstep
http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/gnustep/tests/examples/trunk/gui/ExampleService/
which shows a few services including using an external program/script  
to open a URL.

> For the second issue, you need a way to access GNUstep services with
> non-GNUstep application since they have no menu for GNUstep services.
> Then you need an GNUstep application to copy the selected text from
> non-GNUstep application through X-window protocol and pass it to
> GNUstep application. I also have a small tool to do such things, but
> it is rather complicated to set it up:

Wouldn't the simplest solution be to write a trivial GNUstep app to  
accept tcp/ip connections with service requests on them, and pass them  
to the normal service mechanism, then modify your non-gnustep app to  
talk to that daemon.  The base library comes with XML/RPC support, and  
the WebServer library lets your app act as a web server, so the daemon  
could be an XML/RPC server process and the non-gnustep app could use a  
standard XML/RPC library to invoke services.  Of course, if Etoile  
already provides a ready built daemon and library code to access it,  
then that should make things really easy.