Programming and Scripting :: My first script



I'm trying to figure out how to automate my setup with a script.  So far, I've been poking around to find the code associated with the buttons and menu items I click on.  For example:

GIVEN:

Code Sample

# Button for 800x600x16 (ie. 16 bit color)

if strfind(data,"800x600x16") then
  b3 = Button{10,10+40*(i-1),130,30, "800x600x16"}
  i = i + 1
  function b3:callback()
     updateXserverrc(" 800x600x16")
  end
end


QUESTION:  Would the command to put in a script be?

Code Sample
updateXserverrc(" 800x600x16")




GIVEN:

Code Sample

# Color Selection

colorBtn = Button{190,window_height-35,50,25,"Color"}
function colorBtn.callback()
  ok,r,g,b = fl_color_chooser(nil,51,102,153)
  if ok then
     color_selected = format("%X%X%X",r,g,b)
     command = 'xsri --color=#'..color_selected
     execute(command)
  end
end


QUESTION:  Would the command to set a light-brown background color be?

Code Sample
xsri --color='99,66,60'




THIRD EXAMPLE:  The following appears to be the script for the "Minimal" style.

Code Sample
#   Minimal style
#

! Minimal © 2000 Jeff Raven
! Blackbox window manager resource defaults, with an
! eye towards consuming as little of an 8-bit palette
! as possible. As an additional bonus, with the changes
! as of Blackbox 0.60.3, it should also use very little
! memory.


toolbar:                        Flat Solid
toolbar.color:                  MidnightBlue

toolbar.clock:                  ParentRelative
toolbar.label:                  ParentRelative
toolbar.windowLabel:            ParentRelative

toolbar.button:                 ParentRelative
toolbar.button.pressed:         Flat Solid
toolbar.button.pressed.color:   SteelBlue
toolbar.button*picColor:        White

toolbar.textColor:              White
toolbar.justify:                center

window.title.focus:             Flat Solid
window.title.focus.color:       SteelBlue
window.title.unfocus:           Flat Solid
window.title.unfocus.color:     MidnightBlue

window.label.focus:             ParentRelative
window.label.focus.textColor:   White
window.label.unfocus:           ParentRelative
window.label.unfocus.textColor: Grey

window.button.focus:            ParentRelative
window.button.focus.picColor:   White
window.button.unfocus:          ParentRelative
window.button.unfocus.picColor: Grey
window.button.pressed:          ParentRelative

window.handle.focus:            Flat Solid
window.handle.focus.color:      SteelBlue
window.handle.unfocus:          Flat Solid
window.handle.unfocus.color:    MidnightBlue

window.grip.focus:              Flat Solid
window.grip.unfocus:            Flat Solid
window.grip*color:              Grey

window.frame.focusColor:        SteelBlue
window.frame.unfocusColor:      MidnightBlue

window.justify:                 center

menu.title:                     Flat Solid
menu.frame:                     Flat Solid
menu.hilite:                    Flat Solid

menu.title.color:               Black
menu.title.textColor:           White
menu.title.justify:             center

menu.frame.color:               MidnightBlue
menu.frame.textColor:           White
menu.frame.justify:             left

menu.hilite.color:              White
menu.hilite.textColor:          Black

menu.bullet:                    Triangle
menu.bullet.position:           Right

borderColor:                    Black

bevelWidth:                     1
borderWidth:                    1
handleWidth:                    4

*Font:                          -*-helvetica-*-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

rootCommand:                    bsetroot -solid SlateGrey


QUESTION:  Should I put this at the beginning of my script?
QUESTION:  Followed by the color command?
QUESTION:  Followed by the screen resolution command?

QUESTION:  What file extention should my script have?  
                    .lua  
                    . sh

QUESTION:  Does it matter where I put it?
                    Could I run it from a floppy, for example?

Have I missed anything?
Damn with those happy-faces... Please paste that code inside CODE-tags.
Quote (Zucca @ July 19 2006,06:18)
Damn with those happy-faces... Please paste that code inside CODE-tags.

OK, figured one more thing out in DSL.  

How about my questions?
For the first two, yes, those are the actions performed in the given segments (Though, you seem to have the format wrong for the second?). However, the third isn't a script - it's a style file for fluxbox.

The first action you have there would have to be run by lua, in with the function definition loaded (which may be local to the file you got it from?), and the second could be run either from lua as execute('xsri --color=#996660') or from bash as xsri --color=#996660
First, what type of script are you working on?  Bash? Lua? Perl? Other?

updateXserverrc() is a function inside /usr/sbin/xvesa.lua.  It will not be available outside of this script.  You will need to copy that fuction into your script if you're using Lua, or rewrite the function if you're using something else.

If "99,66,60" are hex values then it would be
xsri --color=#996660
If they are rgb values I don't know if they'd work with xsri.  The colorBtn formats the rgb values that lua fltk uses into a hex value that xsri uses.

Fluxbox styles are not scripts.  They are resource files, like .Xdefaults. If you want to have fluxbox always use a particular style, make sure .fluxbox/init has the appropriate one listed after "session.styleFile".

The filename extension doesn't really matter for anything other than letting you know what kind of script it is.

You can run a script from just abut anywhere, other than a partition that is mounted without executeable permission.  If these are all X-related actions, you could put commands into .xintrc to have it set up automatically.
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