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Am 01.09.2015 um 02:36 schrieb Kai-Martin Knaak:
> For real world scenarios, there are limits though:
> 
> a) there are no actions for actions which require mouse input
> 
> b) pcb tries to play smart and exits right away if it thinks an action 
> is not appropriate for a specific HID. E.g. this prevents my bash 
> script to print the flip side of a layout with a vanilla pcb binary.

I don't think it's too complicated to fix such issues. Can you write a bug report? With a sample layout and an approximate script?

Maybe access through stdin/stdout in best Unix tradition is the best way to connect to other software. This way each tool is independent, big parts of an "API" exists already. Moving the mouse is possible, too, I'm just not sure wether this is the best way to query a layout.


Markus

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