[tomboy-list] Using TomBoy from the console

[Lauro Moura]

On 12/15/06, Pedro Castro <noup.net at gmail.com> wrote:
> Boyd Timothy wrote:
> > That's an interesting idea.  I'm not sure if anyone's tried that
> > before.  If someone wanted to write something like this, that'd be
> > cool.  I don't think it'd ever be used by your standard end-user
> > though.
> Yes, it's more like a power-user feature. I recon, though, that Tomboy
> has some command-line parameters that can create notes, open notes, etc.
> When i first saw this, i actually thought it was the solution to my needs.
> >
> > If someone wanted to try writing something like this, they could
> > possibly manipulate the ~/.tomboy/*.notes directly (not recommended),
> > or add in additional DBus methods to RemoteControl.cs that a
> > command-line utility could access.
> Using DBus would require Tomboy to be running for notes to be edited, right?
> Note that i probably won't have the time to work on this. Still, it's
> good to clarify things if someone else wants to take care of it.

I tried something using Tomboy-HEAD (from anoncvs) and added a new
command line option ("--append-text [title/uri] [text]") but had some
problems with "tomboy already running", even without any tomboy
instance running. So I can't test it yet.

To append the text I added a method to NoteBuffer to insert the text
using "Gtk.TextBuffer.Insert(EndIter, text)". I'm not sure if this is
the best approach, as there are many event handlers involved, but [1]
tells that the "insert_text" is emitted.

Tonight I'll try again. Just finished a college exam. =)

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