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client_side_scripting:client_scripting_interface-basic_howto [2020/09/11 13:14]
boingman Removed potentially misleading information about newlines
client_side_scripting:client_scripting_interface-basic_howto [2020/10/25 18:10]
boingman Added credit where credit is due.
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-===== Platform-Specific Notes =====+===== A Few Thanks and Platform-Specific Notes =====
  
-Scripting ​works thanks to a patch from archaios. Known issues are:+Scripting ​was rendered initially functional with a patch from archaios ​and is being kept current by GTKv2 client maintainers Partmedia/​crowbert and JXClient maintainer Ragnor. 
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 +Known issues are:
  
     * If you want to run a Perl script for instance, you need to issue 'perl <​script_name.pl>,​ even if .pl is correctly seen as perl script.     * If you want to run a Perl script for instance, you need to issue 'perl <​script_name.pl>,​ even if .pl is correctly seen as perl script.
     * If script doesn'​t output anything, try turning off buffering (in perl $| = 1) or flush your pipe, or add a sleep at end of program. It seems Windows closes pipes at script termination before client gets time to grab output. ​     * If script doesn'​t output anything, try turning off buffering (in perl $| = 1) or flush your pipe, or add a sleep at end of program. It seems Windows closes pipes at script termination before client gets time to grab output. ​
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client_side_scripting/client_scripting_interface-basic_howto.txt · Last modified: 2021/06/19 08:12 by boingman