Script calling plugin/display

[KoningFloris]

Hello Mattn,

First of all, GoL looks great.

I have been looking into making some kind of centralized notification system to funnel notifications into one application, specifically to push them to my android phone. As a first base I decided to use Growl since many applications allow Growl notifications. But, Grow-for-Linux stops after showing the popup. This is where my lousy hacking skills came in. I have altered the balloon display to run a script with every balloon popup. I added the following code to balloon.c to the display_show():

char str[2000];
strcpy (str, "sh /home/floris/script.sh '");
strcat (str, di->ni->title);
strcat (str, "' '");
strcat (str, di->ni->text);
strcat (str, "'");
system(str);

Note that I am a Java programmer by trade and have very limited experience in C. But this does get the job done of having the balloon popup also call the script located at /home/floris/script.sh and it adds as first and second parameter the title and the message.

There must be a way to do this more properly. Maybe even add an option on the gui to select a certain script to execute instead of this hardcoded thing.

[mattn]

Currently, gol don't have customizable, or dynamically plugin specifications. for example putting python or LL interfaces.
So I want to add interfaces to gol. If it finished, it will enable to do it for you.

[KoningFloris]

Sounds very good.

Is there any documentation on how to create a custom popup? I was unable to find any so ended up hacking the balloon.c. I would like it if I could create and add my own popup version instead of overwriting the current balloon one.