Hi Bert,
Thanks for the reply.
On 2013-02-18, at 18:09, Louis LaBrunda Lou@Keystone-Software.com wrote:
Hi Dave,
I have written two classes to manage a bunch of irsend command calls (to change the cable box channel) at a given time and reschedule it for another day. I have two questions.
- Where would be a good place in Squeak to document how each class works?
The classes are fairly simple. One class holds the information for what command should be run and when. The other class manages a group of similar (by programmer choice) commands and run then at the proper time. How they work together requires some documenting.
The class comment.
I thought about the class comment but it looks like it takes only one line. Unless I'm looking in the wrong place or at it wrong?
- It seems to me the two classes I have written would fit nicely into your
OSProcess... group of classes. I would like to make these classes available under the MIT licence and I hoping you will accept them into the fold and distribute them with your package. I'm not familiar enough with Squeak to even know where to start to distribute them on my own.
Certainly calling out to a special-purpose tool does not belong in the generic OSProcess package.
It is not a special-purpose tool. There is no mention of LIRC or irsend in either class. The classes run and schedule any command that Dave's OSProcess>command: can handle. It does things like run the command every Tuesday at 20:00 hours.
Besides, why did you make it so complicated in the first place? Why not connect to LIRC's TCP socket directly? irsend is a trivial little program that does nothing more than forward its command line arguments to the LIRC demon. Then you wouldn't even need OSProcess. The protocol is straight-forward:
I will take a look at it. I don't really know much about LIRC and got on the to WinLIRC>transmit.exe and LIRC>irsend early on and never got much more involved in how LIRC works. It would be nice to do more than irsend does so controlling LIRC via a socket could be nice. I would still need the scheduling code but then it would be special purpose to LIRC. But still something to look into.
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