Re: how can I display the current song of bongo player (emacs) in RP's bar?

"CSM 'illovae' Seldon" <[email protected]> writes:

> So i tried to hack bongo.el but my skills in elisp are near 0... so it
> doesn't work at all. Here's what I made.

I am at the same level, but I gave it a try.

> The trick is I decided to use the function bongo-show which is used to
> display in the minibuffer the title of the song while you actually play
> it. When you play foobar, it display /foobar/ in minibuffer so why add
> something to display /foobar/ too in my RP's bar ?

I don't think it is a good idea to modify bongo-show directly.
Next time the code gets updated, you'll have to do it all over again.
AFAIK, thats what hooks are for: Modifying the program at certain well
defined points. 

I do not use bongo, but I downloaded it and played around a bit.
This is what I came up with:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(add-hook 'bongo-player-started-hook
     (lambda ()
       (let (message command))
	 (with-bongo-playlist-buffer
	   (setq my-message (bongo-format-infoset (bongo-player-infoset player)))
	   (setq command (concat "ratpoison -c 'echo " message "'")) 
	   (start-process-shell-command "FixMe" nil command))))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Just start bongo, eval this in your *scratch* buffer and give it a try.
I only did some quick testing, it can very well not work as you
expected.

But it might give you a point to start from ...

Memnon