Appwrappers

[James Jordan]

Been playing with Appwrappers for a few hours and got thinking about 
what can be done with them.  The script that launches an executable 
and passes it the command line string makes it very versatile.  I 
think I can use them to add Nautilus script style functions to 
GWorkspace.  That got me thinking that it would great if there were a 
set of command line callable GNUstep dialog boxes kind of on the order 
of Zenity.  Yes, I know I can use Zenity but I want the consistent 
look and feel of GNUstep.  With that I could, for example, set up an 
Appwrapper called Droid-Vid containing a script that encodes a video 
using ffmpeg to be used on my Android phone.  If called from the "open 
with" right-click in GWorkspace it might just pop up a dialog to tell 
me when it is finished, but if run directly it could put up a file 
open dialog to let me choose a video to encode and possibly another 
for where to save.   I think I would prefer several very small 
programs, one for each type of Dialog but the Zenity approach of 
having one executable with a large number of command line options 
might be better.

Should start trying to hack apart NSPanelTest to see if I can make 
something work but am just starting to learn this stuff and have no 
idea how to make a program accept a command line switch.

I am sure one of you smart coders out there could do this in a hour.  
I am just starting on the coding side of things (hacked Ink apart so I 
could get it to open .plist and .sh files) and while I want to get 
proficient in that area, I would rather play with extending 
Appwrappers for a few days.

BTW, I started putting the .sh extension on my scripts inside the 
Appwrappers just so I could open them with my Ink hack.

So, if any of you smart Hackers out there want to throw me a bone in 
the form of a few command-line configurable dialog boxes it would be 
greatly appreciated.

-j