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Top Forums Programming Works from console but not when clicked in KDE Post 302115176 by porter on Sunday 22nd of April 2007 11:26:42 PM
Old 04-23-2007
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Originally Posted by jasonkb
Still leaves me with the problem of determining where the program is actually located so I could read in config files.
Or why not have a look and see how other applications solve problems like this on UNIX?

Let application name="foo"

UNIX apps typically do the following....

1. check $HOME directory for directory called .foo and finds config in there, such as $HOME/.foo/foo.conf

2. check a package directory, eg /usr/pkg/etc/foo.conf or /opt/MYfoo/etc/foo.conf

3. check the gobals, /etc/foo.conf

4. use sensible defaults

5. have a wrapper script that does the setting up of environment before running the actually binary with exec, allows installation to code directory paths in a shell script outside of the binary.

NB, There is no portable way to determine the filename of a program at startup.
 

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radio(1)						      General Commands Manual							  radio(1)

NAME
radio - console radio application SYNOPSIS
radio [ options ] DESCRIPTION
radio is a interactive, ncurses-bases console radio application. OPTIONS
-h print a short help text. -d enable debug output. -q quit after processing the cmd line options, don't enter interactive ncurses mode. Only useful together with other options for obvi- ous reasons ... -m mute radio. -f freq tune the specified radio frequency (and unmute the radio). -c dev specify radio device (default is /dev/radio). -s Do a scan for radio stations. -S Same as above + write a radio.fmmap with the signal for every frequency. You can get a graph for it with gnuplot (plot "radio.fmmap" w lin). -i Scan, write a initial ~/.radio file to stdout and quit. So you can create a config file where you only have to fill in the correct station names later this way: "radio -i > ~/.radio". See below for the config file syntax. CONFIGURATION
radio picks up station names and present stations from a config file. It can parse kradio (KDE radio app) config files, therefore it first tries the usual KDE config file location: ~/.kde/share/config/kradiorc. Failing that, radio tries ~/.radio (which makes things a bit easier for people who don't use kradio). The format looks like this: # KDE Config File [Buttons] 1=95800000 2=91400000 [Stations] 100600000=Hundert,6 95800000=Radio eins 102600000=Fritz 94300000=r.s.2 91400000=Berliner Rundfunk The [Buttons] section can have up to eight entries. That are the present stations, they get mapped to F1-F8. The [Stations] section maps frequencies to station names. The frequencies in both sections are specified in Hz. KEYS
X exit ESC,Q,E mute and exit. up/down inc/dec frequency pgup/pgdown next/previous station. This one uses the stations from the config file by default. When started with the -s option these keys will cycle througth the stations found during the scan. F1-F8, 1-8 preset buttons. Ctrl+L redraw screen. AUTHOR
Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org> COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 1997-2001 Gerd Knorr This program 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. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MER- CHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. (c) 1998-2001 Gerd Knorr radio(1)
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