[This idea is under development, comments are welcome at XmlRpcFilterServiceDiscussion?.]

Introduction

In thinking about applications for XmlRpcFilteringPipes, the implementation of an ubiquitous service in MacOSX and Windows came to mind. This is such an implementation.

The idea is that one can construct a pipe of XmlRpc filters, and have it almost universally available wherever one is working with text.

In the case of MacOSX: Just select whatever text is being worked on at the moment, and trigger the service by menu item or hotkey. The selected text is then passed through the remote filters in the pipe, and replaced with the final results results of the pipe.

In the case of Windows: Just copy text onto the clipboard, trigger a pipe via the system tray icon. The clipboard text is then passed through the remote filters in the pipe, and replaced with the final results results of the pipe. The text can then be pasted.

News & Status

Just threw together a quick Windows rendition of the idea, also hard-coded to DecafbadWiki's filter, as well as an HTML-to-text filter using Lynx.

-- LesOrchard - 13 Mar 2002

Have an initial working service which is hard-coded to use DecafbadWiki's filter.

-- LesOrchard - 11 Mar 2002

To Do

• Easy configuration and selection of multiple pipelines

Downloads

• xrfp_clipboard_win32.zip: XmlRpcFilterService for Windows, using perl Win32
  • Binary runs out of the box.
  • Rebuilding requires:
    • ActiveState Perl
    • Win32::GUI extensions
    • IndigoStar?'s Perl2Exe
• XmlRpcFilterService.tar.gz: Source to an XmlRpcFilterService implementation for MacOSX
  • Requires Marcus Muller's XMLRPC Obj-C framework for compilation and use (not included)

Documentation

-- LesOrchard - 11 Mar 2002

Attachment	Action	Size	Date	Who	Comment
XmlRpcFilterService.tar.gz	manage	4.3 K	11 Mar 2002 - 07:14	LesOrchard	Source to an XmlRpcFilterService implementation
xrfp_clipboard_win32.zip	manage	815.9 K	13 Mar 2002 - 21:46	LesOrchard	XmlRpcFilterService for Windows, using perl Win32