feature request

Hi
I'm making a lot of precedural drawing and I'm using LibreCAD mostly in command mode, with a lot of commands generated from another program.

At first I used to copy-paste but it was a lot of work.
I'm currently using xdotool to submit my generated commands through the GUI.
This must be kept very slow to keep it reliable but at least it's an automated process.

I think it would be great if there was some sort of pipe to send commands to LibreCAD from another program.

maybe a named pipe or a TCP socket.
I think the named pipe would be very easy to implement although it may be limited to the linux/posix version

what do you think about it ?

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Hi

I just looked at https://wiki.librecad.org/index.php/LibreCAD_Plugin_Development

this is nice but the plugin API does not seem able to interact with the commandline box but directly with the document.

so, I have to recreate the command parser and call the drawing methods directly...
Another problem is that the plugin is designed to be executed by the user as a procedure. it is not made to wait for incoming orders.

in fact it is quite odd to have a command line that is not designed to be connected to some data stream that could be a file, a terminal or a command generator. At first, I was expecting librecad would read stdin the very same way it reads the command line box.

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Hi.

I've read some c++ code from librecad's github but i'm not familiar with Qt and its way to handle the GUI events.
i was thinking about reading stdin or a named pipe in the big main loop and then to feed it to the cmdline interpreter but it do not seems so trivial.

about librecad3. I do not understand Lua. It seems quite different from the languages I'm used to and I have no time to invest in learning it now.

maybe later...







 

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