Proof-of-concept of a GUI frontend program. Written in Tcl/Tk.

libisoburn/trunk/xorriso/README_gnu_xorriso

@@ -142,6 +142,32 @@ closing it immediately, waiting, and only then opening it for real:
   CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -DLibburn_udev_extra_open_cyclE -DLibburn_udev_wait_useC=500000"
 
 
+             xorriso under control of a (GUI) frontend process
+
+The dialog mode allows frontend programs to connect via pipes to the standard
+input and output of xorriso. Several commands of xorriso help with receiving
+and parsing of reply messages.
+
+As a proof of concept, there is the Tcl/Tk script xorriso-tcltk which can
+be launched by this shell command in the directory where xorriso was built:
+
+    xorriso/xorriso -launch_frontend frontend/xorriso-tcltk --stdio --
+
+resp. after installation:
+
+    xorriso -launch_frontend $(which xorriso-tcltk) --stdio --
+
+See file frontend/README-tcltk for a description of its GUI. 
+See its Tcl code for getting an idea how this gets achieved.
+
+Further there is the C program frontend/frontend_pipes_xorriso.c which
+forks a xorriso process and shows the same communication gestures as 
+xorriso-tcltk.
+In particular it connects to xorriso via two pipes, sends commands, waits 
+for all replies of a command, picks info out of the xorriso message sieve, 
+and parses reply message lines into words.
+
+
                        Drives and Disk File Objects 
 
 The user of libisoburn applications needs rw-permission for the CD/DVD/BD

libisoburn/trunk/xorriso/make_xorriso_standalone.sh

@@ -231,9 +231,15 @@ copy_files doc/partition_offset.wiki \
 create_dir "$lone_dir"/test
 copy_files \
  test/compare_file.c \
- test/frontend_pipes_xorriso.c \
  "$lone_dir"/test
 
+create_dir "$lone_dir"/frontend
+copy_files \
+ frontend/frontend_pipes_xorriso.c \
+ frontend/README-tcltk \
+ frontend/xorriso-tcltk \
+ "$lone_dir"/frontend
+
 
 # releng
 

libisoburn/trunk/xorriso/xorriso_makefile_am.txt

@@ -237,6 +237,7 @@ noinst_PROGRAMS = \
 	test/compare_file \
 	xorriso/make_xorriso_1
 
+
 # A program to compare two trees of files in mounted filesystems
 # To compare tree /media/dvd and /original/dir :
 #   find /media/dvd -exec test/compare_file '{}' /media/dvd /original/dir ';'
@@ -254,6 +255,11 @@ xorriso_make_xorriso_1_LDADD =
 xorriso_make_xorriso_1_SOURCES = xorriso/make_xorriso_1.c
 
 
+# A Proof-of-concept for frontends
+bin_SCRIPTS = \
+	frontend/xorriso-tcltk
+
+
 # Install symbolic links to the xorriso binary
 #
 install-exec-hook:
@@ -328,7 +334,8 @@ EXTRA_DIST = \
 	doc/susp_aaip_isofs_names.txt \
 	doc/zisofs_format.txt \
 	doc/startup_file.txt \
-	test/frontend_pipes_xorriso.c \
+	frontend/frontend_pipes_xorriso.c \
+	frontend/README-tcltk \
 	libisofs/aaip-os-dummy.c \
 	libisofs/aaip-os-linux.c \
 	libisofs/aaip-os-freebsd.c \