Dangerous Prototypes

Hi all,
you can download and test the beta version of the twatch perl lib  at https://launchpad.net/twatch (http://https://launchpad.net/twatch). Ideas, tests, bug reports would be appreciated

Phil.

Hi,

you can download lib and the demo from this url:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~alexandre- ... runk/files (http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~alexandre-philippe/twatch/trunk/files)

Thanks for the direct link, I had a hard time finding it. This is an awesome script, thanks for sharing it. I posted it up, and added it to the #twatch manual.

Great work!

Cool thing! Now we only need a scroll function for long text... :)

Hi,

you can find at the same url a scroll library (beta version) and a demo.
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~alexandre- ... runk/files (http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~alexandre-philippe/twatch/trunk/files)


@ian thank for the twatch, it's really a fun toy :)

Phil.

Nice! :)

Here's my solution (added to your TWatch.pm):

sub scrollLine
{
        my ($self, $text, $row, $col) = @_;
        my $msg = $text;
        my $i = 0;

        $row=1 if(!defined($row) || $row > $self->{_NBROW} || $row < 1);
        $col=1 if(!defined($col) || $col > $self->{_NBCOL} || $col < 1);

        my $sock = $self->{_SOCKET};
        while (($col + length($text)-$i) > $self->{_NBCOL}) {
                $msg = substr($text, $i++, ($self->{_NBCOL}-$col)+1);
                print $sock chr(0xFE),chr(0x47),chr($col),chr($row);
                print $sock $msg;
                usleep(300000);
        }
        usleep(SLEEP);
}

But it was only a first try...