Release 1.6.0.

[xtoys] / xmsg.in

#! @PYTHON@
### -*-python-*-
###
### Report a message to the user
###
### (c) 2008 Straylight/Edgeware
###

###----- Licensing notice ---------------------------------------------------
###
### This file is part of the Edgeware X tools collection.
###
### X tools is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
### it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
### the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
### (at your option) any later version.
###
### X tools is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
### but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
### MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
### GNU General Public License for more details.
###
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### along with X tools; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
### Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.

VERSION = '@VERSION@'

###--------------------------------------------------------------------------
### External dependencies.

import optparse as O
from sys import stdin, stdout, stderr, exit
import os as OS
import errno as E

import xtoys as XT
GTK = XT.GTK

###--------------------------------------------------------------------------
### Option parsing.

def parse_args():
  """
  Parse the command line, returning a triple (PARSER, OPTS, ARGS).
  """

  op = XT.make_optparse \
       ([('E', 'error',
          {'action': 'store_const', 'dest': 'type', 'const': 'error',
           'help': "Mark the window as reporting an error."}),
         ('I', 'informational',
          {'action': 'store_const', 'dest': 'type', 'const': 'info',
           'help': "Mark the window as providing information."}),
         ('Q', 'question',
          {'action': 'store_const', 'dest': 'type', 'const': 'question',
           'help': "Mark the window as asking a question."}),
         ('W', 'warning',
          {'action': 'store_const', 'dest': 'type', 'const': 'warning',
           'help': "Mark the window as giving a warning."}),
         ('d', 'headline',
          {'dest': 'headline',
           'help': "Set the window's headline message."}),
         ('m', 'markup',
          {'action': 'store_true', 'dest': 'markupp',
           'help': "Parse message strings for Pango markup."}),
         ('t', 'title',
          {'dest': 'title',
           'help': "Set the window's title string."})],
        version = VERSION,
        usage = '%prog [-EIQWm] [-t TITLE] [-d HEADLINE] '
                'MESSAGE [BUTTONS...]')

  op.set_defaults(title = 'xmsg',
                  type = 'info',
                  headline = None,
                  markupp = False)

  opts, args = op.parse_args()
  return op, opts, args

###--------------------------------------------------------------------------
### Main program.

def main():
  op, opts, args = parse_args()
  if len(args) == 0:
    op.print_usage(stderr)
    exit(1)

  ## Sort out the message.
  message = args[0]
  buttons = args[1:]
  if message.startswith('!'):
    message = message[1:]
  elif message == '-':
    message = stdin.read()

  ## Display it and retrieve and answer.
  try:
    msg = XT.Message(title = opts.title,
                     type = opts.type,
                     message = message,
                     headline = opts.headline,
                     buttons = buttons,
                     markupp = opts.markupp)
  except ValueError, err:
    op.error(err[0])
  result = msg.ask()

  ## Done.
  if result != True:
    print result
  exit(0)

if __name__ == '__main__':
  main()

###----- That's all, folks --------------------------------------------------