I am looking for a way to interact with OptaPlanner directly from the command line interface (CLI) without having to use the graphical user interface (GUI).
More specifically, I am looking to pass an XML file to the Employee Rostering function, and to get the solved XML back. Ultimately, I am looking to interact with OctaPlanner from my PHP application.
Any documentation for this?
Here is some what of an example of what I which to achieve:
http://www.c0940097.ferozo.com/applying-optaplanner-to-everyday-problems/
The UI is only for the examples. Take a look at CloudBalancingHelloWorld.java which solves without a UI.
Or, if you're looking for a more enterprise approach, use OptaPlanner Execution Server (also ASL), which exposes everything as REST api's.
I am writing a Qt application that calls QProcess::startDetached("wscript.exe script.vbs") to show the delete confirmation dialog in Windows.
this is the script:
Set objShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
Set objFolder = objShell.Namespace("-")
Set objFolderItem = objFolder.ParseName("-")
objFolderItem.InvokeVerb("Delete")
the arguments for Namespace and ParseName are from the arguments passed to the script.
This may be inefficient because it opens an external application first before running the script. I was wondering if i can run VBScripts in a Qt application.
If not, what alternatives can i do?
My VBScript is very weak, so I'm not 100% sure I understand what you are trying to do. My assumption is that you are trying to delete a folder, but want to give the user the normal confirmation box and animation while the action is occurring. If that is not correct, please let me know and I will remove this answer.
A few ideas:
You could call the Windows API directory within your C++ code to do this. I believe the correct call would be to use IFileOperation (Vista and later) or SHFileOperation (pre-Vista)
Qt already has message box dialogs. Although you might not get the exact same functionality as the native shell, you could use this (QMessageBox::warning) and then delete the folder using QDir. This would also be cross-platform portable.
If you stick with the VBScript, I doubt you would see any performance issues unless this is being called many, many times in a loop or something. You know, the old "premature optimization is the root of all evil" thing.
You should read up on the IActiveScript COM interface. You can create an instance of an interpreter that implements IActiveScript to provide a runtime for evaluating scripts. VBScript and JScript can both be used for this and a number of other third-party scripting languages also provide IActiveScript support.
The overview for working with this is you create a language runtime (an instance of VBScript for instance) then add some custom objects to it. Typically if you are embedding an interpreter into your application then exposing an Application object is a good place to start. This can be just an IDispatch interface or something more concrete with an IDL generated typelibrary and all the trimmings. Once you have added the necessary named items into the runtime you load one or more scripts. Any public functions or subroutines declared in the scripts now get exposed via the IDispatch interface of the live runtime once you switch its state to active or running. To actually run the script program, I invoke the Main function for my stuff - you could choose some other scheme as applicable to your environment.
The nice thing about ActiveScripting, is to change language you just change the runtime CLSID. So if people prefer Perl they can use PerlScript or PythonScript etc. Your Application object remains the same hence you don't have to write additional code to support the new languages. The only requirement is that everything is COM.
I'm using Qt.
I could not find the function or class to start application at booting time.
In windows, for example, add register to HKMU/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Run.
I wanna know the function/class like above example.
You can use QSettings in order to set a value at Windows Registry.
QSettings settings("HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Run",
QSettings::NativeFormat);
and then use the setValue function.
However this will work only in Windows so it is better to use an #ifdef before calling it.
The only thing I can think of is the QtService framework. It is available for all the major platforms (look here). It might not be exactly what you were looking for but it may help.
It is also important to mention that a Windows service has no direct access to the graphical interface. This means that if the application is graphical, you'll probably have to redesign it.
There is no such API in Qt, you have to search for 3rdparty library or write whole code on your own.
Thinking of implementing a LDAP-viewer in QML. The first step is obviously to make a Qt back-end that can handle ldap-queries. I've read the rfc1823 (ldap tutorial of sorts), but still can't understand where to begin really.
I would be interested in some Qt code that would get me started on some sample LDAP functions, for instance :
connect to a ldap server
do some simple query of any type
close the connection
Edit: code is not required if you can point me to any tutorials/guides as to how one does this in C++ / Qt
I suggest using libldap. Writing a client from scratch is a lot of work. Take a look here for some examples as a kick-off. You can easily integrate that code with Qt.
The OpenLDAP library also has some c++ example included.
I'd like to be able to write a .swf file that is runnable as a command line app. In other words, I would be able to create actionscript classes which can interact with stdin and stdout, and could then execute that .swf directly in the command line.
I suspect that this isn't really possible. Can anyone confirm that?
EDIT:
A couple of the answers pointed out that using Flash for command line work probably isn't the best choice. I wholeheartedly agree in most situations. The reason I am asking about this is because I want to do some AS3 code generation, and reflecting on AS3 classes within the runtime would be easier than parsing the code or walking the intermediary XML that asdoc produces. I'm doing the XML approach now in Ruby, but would love to have a cleaner solution!
YES! It actually is possible.
You can create a pure AS3 AIR project (without any application window) and run from the command line using ADL (AIR Debug Launcher).
ADL will execute your SWF and will pass whatever arguments you give it directly to your application at runtime—all from the command line! To read the arguments from AS3 just add this code to your main class:
package
{
import flash.desktop.NativeApplication;
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.events.InvokeEvent;
public class CmdLine extends Sprite
{
public function CmdLine()
{
NativeApplication.nativeApplication.addEventListener(
InvokeEvent.INVOKE, onInvokeEvent);
function onInvokeEvent(invocation:InvokeEvent):void {
trace(invocation.arguments);
}
}
}
}
Your main class will still extend Sprite, but you won't see any UI unless you create NativeWindow objects. If you're using Flash Builder, just create a new AIR project and rename the extension of the main .mxml file to .as (before you finish the wizard).
Here is more about ADL: Using the AIR Debug Launcher (ADL)
Also, this will be very useful: AIR application invocation and termination
You can do all your output using trace(), write files, or even write directly to stdout, as seen here.
Apparently there is the Tamarin project which aims to create an open source implementation of AS3. This page gives a little detail of compiling an AS3 script and running it from a command line.
I'm not getting a good idea of how stable Tamarin is, but it might be your best bet for now. On the other hand, I have to strongly agree with #zenazn that you would be better off long-term learning a language more designed for general purposes, but if really want to just use Actionscript, don't let anyone stop you :)
There's no way to do this with a bare SWF right now.
However, you can publish your Flash content as an AIR app. The app can then be invoked from the command line, and you can collect the arguments from the arguments property of an InvokeEvent. The basic idea looks like this:
NativeApplication.nativeApplication.addEventListener(
InvokeEvent.INVOKE, onInvoke );
// ...
function onInvoke( e:InvokeEvent ) {
var numArguments:int = e.arguments.length;
// ...
}
Note, however, that this is essentially a one-way street. You can grab the command-line arguments, but Flash still doesn't grok the idea of stdin and stdout.
Actually, there is a project that makes it possible. RedTamarin is a project that extends AS3 (technically, the Tamarin project which is the Adobe/Mozilla ECMAScript project) to have access to low-level libraries (ie. POSIX). In its current state it appears to be good for stuff like shell-scripting-like programs which is what it sounds like what you're looking for.
Give it a try:
http://code.google.com/p/redtamarin/
You can interact with stdin, stdout and stderr with redtamarin
http://code.google.com/p/redtamarin/
see examples/docs here
http://code.google.com/p/redtamarin/wiki/System#stdout
http://code.google.com/p/redtamarin/wiki/System#stderr
http://code.google.com/p/redtamarin/wiki/System#stdin
there is a difference between Flash and ActionScript 3
Flash is a runtime, AS3 is a language
I don't see why AS3 would not be a good programming language
for the command line and/or the server side
Now, redtamarin is just that, a runtime that allow you to
run your AS3 source code on the command line.
Also, depending on your needs, you can use it in different ways
to run script on the command line
$ ./redshell myscript.as
run ABC or SWF files on the command line
$ ./redshell myscript.abc
$ ./redshell myscript.swf
run an exectuable
$ ./myscript
When you will run an AS3 script it will be dynamically interpreted,
using ASC you will be able to compile this same script to an ABC file
that can also be run from the command line.
If for example you need to assemble numerous ABC files together,
you can use swfmake to merge them into SWF file and the runtime
will run that SWF file too from the command line.
Finally, if you need to bundle everything in one executable,
you can use createprojector to take your ABC or SWF file
and merge it with the runtime itself to obtain an independent
executable.
Redtamarin provide native API that cover file system access,
sockets, operating system info, etc.
Now it is possible with AIR 2.0. Check this article to start.
If you are really that inclined, you could open a local socket, and then have a helper program, running from the command-line communicate with the open SWF.
This might be a good time to learn another language. May I suggest Java?
I had a similar question recently. It took me a few days to answer it for myself, but you can create a .swf and execute it entirely from the command line.
AS3 Filesystem Hello World
You could have a look at Haxe with is very similar to AS3 and could compile NekoVM Bytecode, which could be run on the command line.
Also interesting could be HippoHX, it is a kind of framework to create desktop applications out of flash movies. (similar to AIR, but with full access to the system.)
Nope--not possible. The best you can do is a standalone app (which can be made in Flash or with a Projector version of flash player, available from the Adobe website).
And why would you want to--Flash is awesome because of the great GUI capabilities. There are plenty of other programming languages that are much better suited for the command line (Python or Ruby or, god forbid, even Perl)