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.Dd January 6, 2015
.Dt PIPEGLADE 1 CON
.Os BSD
.Sh NAME
.Nm pipeglade
.Nd Pipe-Driven GTK+ Interface
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Op Fl h
.Op Fl G
.Op Fl V
.Nm
.Op Fl i Ar in-fifo
.Op Fl o Ar out-fifo
.Op Fl u Ar builder-file
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
is a helper program that displays graphical user
interfaces for other programs.  It renders the GUI definition
found in a GtkBuilder XML file (created using the
.Xr glade 1
interface designer), and communicates with the main program solely
through plain text messages via pipes or fifos.  It provides access to
a subset of features of a subset of widgets of GTK+ 3.  Simple
one-shot dialogs as well as more complex, long-running programs can be
built using
.Nm ;
see
.Sx EXAMPLES .
.Sh OPTIONS
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Fl h
Prints a help message and exits.
.It Fl i Ar in-fifo
Creates a named pipe
.Ar in-fifo
if necessary, and uses it for input.  It is an error if
.Ar in-fifo
exists but is not a named pipe.  The named pipe
.Ar in-fifo
is deleted upon successful program termination.  Default is
.Va stdin .
See
.Sx GUI MANIPULATION COMMANDS
for a list of commands understood by pipeglade.
.It Fl o Ar out-fifo
Creates a named pipe
.Ar out-fifo
if necessary, and uses it for output.  It is an error if
.Ar out-fifo
exists but is not a named pipe.  The named pipe
.Ar out-fifo
is deleted upon successful program termination.  Default is
.Va stdout .
See
.Sx GUI FEEDBACK MESSAGES
for a description of possible output.
.It Fl u Ar builder-file
Displays the graphical user interface described in
.Ar builder-file .
Default is
.Pa ./pipeglade.ui .
.It Fl G
Prints the GTK+ version and exits.
.It Fl V
Prints the
.Nm pipeglade
version and exits.
.El
.Sh INTERFACE CREATION (USING GLADE)
The interface should be created using the
.Xr glade 1
user interface designer and saved in GtkBuilder (.ui) format.  The
main window must be named
.Ic window ;
its
.Ic destroy
signal should be connected to
.Ic gtk_main_quit .
Certain signals of the other widgets should be connected to
callbacks.  See
.Sx GUI FEEDBACK MESSAGES
for callback names and which signals of which widgets to connect to
them.
.Sh GUI MANIPULATION COMMANDS
A command is a line of text.  Lines whose first non-whitespace
character is
.Ic #
are considered comments and ignored.
Any occurences of the two-character sequences
.Ic \en
and
.Ic \er
will be converted into newline or carriage return, respectively.
Every other character following a backslash will be left unchanged,
but the backslash will be removed.
The format of the commands is
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic \&: Ns
.Fa action
.Bq Fa data
.Qc
where
.Fa name
is the name of the receiving widget.
.Fa data
is separated from the rest of the command by whitespace.
.Pp
Invalid commands are reported on
.Va stderr
and are otherwise ignored.
.Pp
Widgets that can be manipulated programmatically, and the relevant
commands, are given below.
.Ss GtkLabel
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic :set_text
.Fa string
.Qc
replaces the label text with
.Fa string .
.Ss GtkImage
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic :set_from_icon_name
.Fa icon-name
.Qc
replaces the image with one of the standard icons.
.Pp
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic :set_from_file
.Fa path
.Qc
replaces the image by the one found at
.Fa path Ns .
.Ss GtkEntry
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic :set_text
.Fa string
.Qc
replaces the user-editable text with
.Fa string .
.Ss GtkTextView
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic :set_text
.Fa string
.Qc
replaces the user-editable text with
.Fa string Ns .
.Pp
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic :delete
.Qc
deletes the text.
.Pp
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic :insert_at_cursor
.Fa string
.Qc
inserts
.Fa string
at cursor position.
.Pp
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic :place_cursor Brq Fa position | Ic end
.Qc
places the text cursor at
.Fa position
or at the end of the text.
.Pp
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic :place_cursor_at_line
.Fa line
.Qc
places the text cursor at the beginning of
.Fa line .
.Pp
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic :scroll_to_cursor
.Qc
scrolls to the cursor position if necessary.
.Ss GtkButton
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic :set_label
.Fa string
.Qc
replaces the button text with
.Fa string .
.Ss GtkToggleButton
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic :set_active Brq Ic 0 | 1
.Qc
switches the button off
.Pq Ic 0
or on
.Pq Ic 1 .
.Pp
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic :set_label
.Fa string
.Qc
replaces the button text with
.Fa string .
.Ss GtkCheckButton
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic :set_active Brq Ic 0 | 1
.Qc
switches the check mark off
.Pq Ic 0
or on
.Pq Ic 1 .
.Pp
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic :set_label
.Fa string
.Qc
replaces the button text with
.Fa string .
.Ss GtkRadioButton
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic :set_active 1
.Qc
switches the button on.  All other buttons of the same group will go off
automatically.
.Pp
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic :set_label
.Fa string
.Qc
replaces the button text with
.Fa string .
.Ss GtkSpinButton
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic :set_text
.Fa string
.Qc
sets the selected value to
.Fa string .
.Ss GtkScale
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic :set_value
.Fa numeric
.Qc
moves the slider to value
.Fa numeric .
.Ss GtkProgressBar
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic :set_fraction
.Fa numeric
.Qc
moves the progress bar to
.Fa numeric
.Po
between 0 and 1
.Pc .
.Pp
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic :set_text
.Fa string
.Qc
replaces the text of the progress bar with
.Fa string .
.Ss GtkSpinner
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic :start
.Qc
and
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic :stop
.Qc
start and stop the spinner.
.Ss GtkStatusbar
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic :push
.Fa string
.Qc
displays
.Fa string
in the statusbar.
.Pp
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic :pop
.Qc
removes the last entry from the statusbar, revealing the penultimate
entry.
.Ss GtkComboBoxText
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic :prepend_text
.Fa string
.Qc
and
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic :append_text
.Fa string
.Qc
prepend/append
.Fa string
as a new selectable item.
.Pp
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic :insert_text
.Fa position string
.Qc
inserts item
.Fa string
at
.Fa position .
.Pp
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic :remove
.Fa position
.Qc
removes the item at
.Fa position .
.Ss GtkTreeView
.Fa row
and
.Fa column
refer to the underlying model (usually a
.Ic GtkListStore ) .
.Pp
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic :set
.Fa row column data
.Qc
replaces the content at
.Pq Fa row , column
with
.Fa data
(which should be compatible with the type of
.Fa column ) .
.Pp
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic :insert_row Brq Fa position | Ic end
.Qc
inserts a new, empty row at
.Fa position
or at the end of the list.
.Pp
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic :move_row
.Fa origin Brq Fa destination | Ic end
.Qc
moves the row at
.Fa origin
to
.Fa destination
or to the end of the list.
.Pp
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic :remove_row
.Fa position
.Qc
removes the row at
.Fa position .
.Pp
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic :scroll
.Fa row column
.Qc
scrolls the cell at
.Pq Fa row , column
into view.
.Ss GtkColorButton
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic :set_color
.Fa color
.Qc
preselects the color.
.Fa color
can be given as
.Bl -dash -offset indent -compact
.It
a standard X11 color name, like
.Qq Li Dark Sea Green,
.It
a hexadecimal value in the form
.Ic # Ns
.Fa rgb ,
.Ic # Ns
.Fa rrggbb ,
.Ic # Ns
.Fa rrrgggbbb ,
or
.Ic # Ns
.Fa rrrrggggbbbb ,
.It
an RGB color in the form
.Ic rgb( Ns
.Fa r Ns
.Ic \&, Ns
.Fa g Ns
.Ic \&, Ns
.Fa b Ns
.Ic \&) ,
or
.It
an RGBA color in the form
.Ic rgba( Ns
.Fa r Ns
.Ic \&, Ns
.Fa g Ns
.Ic \&, Ns
.Fa b Ns
.Ic \&, Ns
.Fa a Ns
.Ic \&) .
.El
The last two are in the format the widget reports; see
.Sx GUI FEEDBACK MESSAGES .
.Ss GtkFontButton
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic :set_font_name
.Fa fontname
.Qc
preselects the font.
.Ss GtkFileChooserButton
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic :set_filename
.Fa path
.Qc
preselects
.Fa path
to the extent it exists.
.Ss GtkFileChooserDialog
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic :set_filename
.Fa path
.Qc
preselects
.Fa path
to the extent it exists.
.Pp
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic :set_current_name
.Fa string
.Qc
makes
.Fa string
the suggested filename, which may not yet exist.
.Fa string
should either resemble an absolute path, or the
.Fa path
must be set
separately by
.Fa name Ns
.Ic :set_current_name
.Fa path .
.Ss GtkCalendar
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic :select_date
.Fa date
.Qc
selects
.Fa date
.Pq Li yyyy-mm-dd
on the calendar.
.Pp
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic :mark_day
.Fa day
.Qc
marks
.Fa day
.Pq 1-31
on the calendar.
.Pp
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic :clear_marks
.Qc
unmarks all days on the calendar.
.Ss Main Window
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic :main_quit
.Qc
kills the user interface.  A non-empty
.Fa name
is required but ignored.
.Ss Any Widget
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic :set_sensitive
.Brq Ic 0 |  1
.Qc
makes the widget grayed out
.Pq Ic 0
or responsive
.Pq Ic 1 .
.Pp
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic :set_visible
.Brq Ic 0 |  1
.Qc
hides
.Pq Ic 0
the widget, or makes it visible
.Pq Ic 1 .
.Pp
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic :force_cb
.Qc
initiates the standard callback.  The
.Fa name Ns
d widget
responds as if
.Ic cb_0
had been activated, but with a different
.Fa section
code:
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic :forced
.Fa data
.Qc .
The command doesn't change anything on the GUI.
.Sh GUI FEEDBACK MESSAGES
A message from the graphical user interface is a line of text.  The
message format is 
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic \&: Ns
.Fa section data
.Qc .
Message sending is initiated by callbacks.  Callbacks are connected to
certain signals; this has to be done in
.Xr glade 1
as part of the interface design.
.Nm
provides the following callbacks:
.Bl -dash -offset indent -compact
.It
.Ic cb_0 , cb_1 , cb_2 ,
and
.Ic cb_3
are callbacks for use in various widgets.  Their action depends on the
particular widget they are called from.  The callbacks are identical
except for the 
.Fa section
strings they send; the respective messages look like
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic :0
.Fa  data
.Qc ,
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic :1
.Fa  data
.Qc ,
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic :2
.Fa  data
.Qc ,
and
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic :3
.Fa  data
.Qc .
.It
.Ic cb_hide_toplevel
is a callback that hides the window the originator is in.  Its main
purpose is hiding of dialog windows.  It doesn't report anything.
.It
.Ic cb_send_dialog_selection
is a callback that sends the item the user has selected in a dialog.
It reports
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic :file
.Fa path
.Qc
and/or
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic :folder
.Fa path
.Qc .
.It
.Ic cb_send_text
is a callback that sends the content of the GtkTextBuffer that is
passed as user data.  It reports
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic :text
.Fa buffer_text
.Qc .
Line endings in
.Fa buffer_text
are replaced by
.Ic \en , 
and backslashes are replaced by
.Ic \e\e .
.It
.Ic cb_send_text_selection
is a callback that sends the highlighted part of the GtkTextBuffer
that is passed as user data.  It reports
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic :text
.Fa highlighted_text
.Qc .
Line endings in
.Fa highlighted_text
are replaced by
.Ic \en ,
and backslashes are replaced by
.Ic \e\e .
.El
.Pp
The widgets capable of reporting user activity are:
.Ss GtkTextView
There should be a dedicated
.Ic GtkButton
for sending (parts of) the text.
The
.Ic clicked
signal of the
.Ic GtkButton
should be connected to either
.Ic cb_send_text
or
.Ic cb_send_text_selection ,
specifying the
.Ic GtkTextBuffer
underlying the
.Ic GtkTextView
as
.Ic User Data .
The
.Ic GtkButton
reports
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic :text
.Fa text
.Qc ,
.Fa name
being the name of the
.Ic GtkButton.
.Ss GtkButton
The
.Ic clicked
signal should be connected to one of
.Ic cb_0 , cb_1 , cb_2 ,
or
.Ic cb_3 .
The widget reports
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic \&: Ns
.Fa section
.Ic clicked
.Qc .
.Ss GtkToggleButton, GtkCheckButton, GtkRadioButton
The
.Ic toggled
signal should be connected to one of
.Ic cb_0 , cb_1 , cb_2 ,
or
.Ic cb_3 .
The widgets report
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic \&: Ns
.Fa section
.Ic on
.Qc
or
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic \&: Ns
.Fa section
.Ic off
.Qc .
.Ss GtkEntry, GtkComboBoxText, GtkSpinButton
The
.Ic changed
signal should be connected to one of
.Ic cb_0 , cb_1 , cb_2 ,
or
.Ic cb_3 .
The widgets report
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic \&: Ns
.Fa section text
.Qc .
.Ss GtkScale
The
.Ic value-changed
signal should be connected to one of
.Ic cb_0 , cb_1 , cb_2 ,
or
.Ic cb_3 .
The widget reports
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic \&: Ns
.Fa section floating_point_text
.Qc .
.Ss GtkTreeView
The
.Ic changed
signal in the subordinated
.Ic GtkTreeSelection
should be connected to one of
.Ic cb_0 , cb_1 , cb_2 ,
or
.Ic cb_3 .
The widget reports
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic \&:clicked
.Qc
and, if the set of selected rows has changed,
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic \&: Ns
.Fa section row column value
.Qc ,
one message per row and column in the underlying model.
.Nm
can deal with columns of type
.Ic gboolean , gint , guint , glong , gulong , gint64 , guint64 , gfloat , gdouble ,
and
.Ic gchararray .
.Ss GtkTreeViewColumn
The
.Ic clicked
signal should be connected to one of
.Ic cb_0 , cb_1 , cb_2 ,
or
.Ic cb_3 .
The widget reports
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic \&: Ns
.Fa section
.Ic clicked
.Qc .
.Ss GtkFileChooserDialog (when subordinated to another window)
The
.Ic delete-event
signal should be connected to
.Ic cb_0 .
The name of the
.Ic GtkFileChooserDialog
widget should end in
.Ic _dialog ,
eg.\&
.Fa some_name Ns
.Ic _dialog .
Then, a
.Ic GtkMenuItem
or
.Ic GtkImageMenuItem
named
.Fa some_name
will invoke the
.Ic GtkFileChooserDialog
(see
.Sx GtkMenuItem, GtkImageMenuItem
for their setup).  The
.Ic GtkFileChooserDialog
should have an
.Sq OK
.Ic GtkBbutton
that has its
.Ic clicked
signal connected to both
.Ic cb_send_dialog_selection
and
.Ic cb_hide_toplevel .
A
.Sq Cancel
.Ic GtkButton
should have its
.Ic clicked
signal connected to
.Ic cb_hide_toplevel .
The widget reports
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic :file
.Fa  pathname
.Qc
and/or
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic :folder
.Fa  pathname
.Qc .
.Ss GtkFileChooserDialog (as the sole window)
Both the
.Ic delete-event
and the
.Ic destroy
signal should be connected to
.Ic gtk_main_quit .
The
.Ic GtkFileChooserDialog
should have an
.Sq OK
.Ic GtkBbutton
that has its
.Ic clicked
signal connected to both
.Ic cb_send_dialog_selection
and
.Ic gtk_main_quit .
A
.Sq Cancel
.Ic GtkButton
should have its
.Ic clicked
signal connected to
.Ic gtk_main_quit .
The widget reports
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic :file
.Fa  pathname
.Qc
and/or
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic :folder
.Fa  pathname
.Qc .
.Ss GtkDialog (when subordinated to another window)
The
.Ic delete-event
signal should be connected to
.Ic cb_0 .
The name of the
.Ic GtkDialog
widget should end in
.Ic _dialog ,
eg.
.Fa some_name Ns
.Ic _dialog .
Then, a
.Ic GtkMenuItem
or
.Ic GtkImageMenuItem
named
.Fa some_name
will invoke the
.Ic GtkDialog
(see
.Sx GtkMenuItem, GtkImageMenuItem
for their setup).  The
.Ic GtkDialog
should have a
.Sq Cancel
.Ic GtkBbutton
that has its
.Ic clicked
signal connected to
.Ic cb_hide_toplevel .
.Ss GtkDialog (as the sole window)
Both the
.Ic delete-event
and the
.Ic destroy
signal should be connected to
.Ic gtk_main_quit .
The
.Ic GtkDialog
should have a
.Sq Cancel
.Ic GtkBbutton
that has its
.Ic clicked
signal connected to
.Ic gtk_main_quit .
.Ss GtkFileChooserButton
The
.Ic file-set
signal should be connected to one of
.Ic cb_0 , cb_1 , cb_2 ,
or
.Ic cb_3 .
The widget reports
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic \&: Ns
.Fa section pathname
.Qc
if the user has changed the selection.
.Ss GtkColorButton
The
.Ic color-set
signal should be connected to one of
.Ic cb_0 , cb_1 , cb_2 ,
or
.Ic cb_3 .
The widget reports
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic \&: Ns
.Fa section
.Ic rgb( Ns
.Fa red Ns
.Ic \&, Ns
.Fa green Ns
.Ic \&, Ns
.Fa blue Ns
.Ic \&)
.Qc
or
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic \&: Ns
.Fa section
.Ic rgb( Ns
.Fa red Ns
.Ic \&, Ns
.Fa green Ns
.Ic \&, Ns
.Fa blue Ns
.Ic \&, Ns
.Fa alpha Ns
.Ic \&)
.Qc ;
.Fa red , green ,
and
.Fa blue
lie between 0 and 255, and
.Fa alpha
between 0 and 1.
.Ss GtkFontButton
The
.Ic font-set
signal should be connected to one of
.Ic cb_0 , cb_1 , cb_2 ,
or
.Ic cb_3 .
The widget reports
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic \&: Ns
.Fa section fontname
.Qc .
.Ss GtkMenuItem, GtkImageMenuItem
The
.Ic activate
signal should be connected to one of
.Ic cb_0 , cb_1 , cb_2 ,
or
.Ic cb_3 .
A
.Ic GtkMenuItem
or
.Ic GtkImageMenuItem
with the name
.Fa some_item
will invoke the
.Ic GtkDialog
or
.Ic GtkFileChooserDialog
named
.Fa some_item Ns
.Ic _dialog
if it exists.  If there isn't any dialog attached to the
.Ic GtkMenuItem ,
it reports
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic \&: Ns
.Fa section label
.Qc .
.Ss GtkCalendar
One or both of the
.Ic day-selected
and
.Ic day-selected-doubleclick
signals should be connected to one or two of
.Ic cb_0 , cb_1 , cb_2 ,
or
.Ic cb_3 .
The widget reports
.Qo
.Fa name Ns
.Ic \&: Ns
.Fa section date
.Qc
with
.Fa date
formatted
.Li yyyy-mm-dd .
.Sh EXAMPLES
.Ss Discovering Pipeglade Interactively
Suppose the interface in
.Pa ./pipeglade.ui
has a
.Ic GtkLabel
.Li l1
and a
.Ic GtkButton
.Li b1
whose
.Ic clicked
signal is connected to
.Ic cb_0 .
After invoking
.Dl pipeglade
and clicking the
.Ic GtkButton ,
.Qq b1:0 clicked
will be reported on the terminal.  Typing
.Dl l1:set_text Button Label
will change the text shown on the label into
.Qq Button Label .
.Ss One-Shot File Dialog
Suppose the interface in
.Pa ./simple_open.ui
contains a
.Ic GtkFileChooserDialog
with an
.Sq OK
.Ic GtkButton
whose
.Ic clicked
signal is connected to both
.Ic cb_send_dialog_selection
and
.Ic gtk_main_quit .
Invoking
.Dl pipeglade -u simple_open.ui
will open the dialog; pressing
.Sq OK
will close it after sending the selected filename to
.Va stdout .
.Ss One-Shot User Notification
If the interface in
.Pa ./simple_dialog.ui
contains a
.Ic GtkLabel
.Li label1 ,
then
.Dl pipeglade -u simple_dialog.ui <<< \e
.Dl \ \ \ \ \&"label1:set_text NOW READ THIS!\&"
will set the label text accordingly and wait for user input.
.Ss Continuous Input
The following shell command displays a running clock:
.Dl while true; do
.Dl \ \ \ \ echo \&"label1:set_text `date`\&";
.Dl \ \ \ \ sleep 1;
.Dl done | pipeglade -u simple_dialog.ui
.Ss Continuous Input and Output
The following shell script fragment sets up
.Nm
for continuous communication with another program,
.Li main_prog :
.Dl pipeglade -i in.fifo -o out.fifo &
.Dl # wait for in.fifo and out.fifo to appear
.Dl while test \& ! \e( -e in.fifo -a -e out.fifo \e); do :; done
.Dl main_prog <in.fifo >out.fifo
.Sh EXIT STATUS
.Nm
exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr glade 1 ,
.Xr dialog 1 ,
.Xr gmessage 1 ,
.Xr kdialog 1 ,
.Xr whiptail 1 ,
.Xr xmessage 1 ,
.Xr zenity 1
.Sh AUTHOR
.Nm
was written by
.An Bert Burgemeister Aq trebbu@googlemail.com .
.\" .Sh BUGS