Vakkotaur

A couple weeks ago I posted about a python program that I was making in order to make things a bit easier when I make up a photographic web site, like the ones for RCFM and MFF. Then, it needed quite a bit of work. I might be done (if any program is really ever done) now.

I've dubbed it AnthroSite as:
1. The name wasn't being used by some other program as far as Google knows.
2. The sites I've been making and wanted it for are full of anthropomorphic creatures.
3. I like the pun which I justify as at times it seemed like I was groping in the dark like my lamp went out in a coal mine.

What does it look like now? Well, if you peak behind the cut you'll see: ( BIG screen shot. )

I made it just for myself, but I could see others having use for it. It does not fully automate everything. It requires that the images be named a certain way, and expects them to be already be sized and oriented properly. I edit the image files anyway (some things are best cropped out of shot, after all), so I don't see that as an issue. Others might disagree, but then I suppose if everything is to be automatic there's always Flickr or such.

I suppose I could write up a page on how it works as while I know how it works, not everything is apt to obvious to someone else. That is, if anyone else will ever use it. As the program is written in python, I think (but don't know for sure) that it will run on any system that python (and the python image library) will install on - and python will install on Linux, *BSD, Windows, Mac, and I don't know what all else.

When I used mIRC for IRC, I had a list of pongs (replies to pings) that were somewhat randomly chosen to send back to whoever pinged me. Then I switched to x-chat and needed a script to the same thing. I didn't snag one from anyone, nor did I write one... until recently.

I've been playing with Python a bit and this past week found out how to open, read, and close files with Python. After a while I had the core of the script done, but needed to make it work with x-chat.

Yesterday evening I started playing with the x-chat python stuff and managed to send commands to x-chat. This morning I managed to get x-chat to load and run a script. With help from jmaynard I managed to get it to be useful.

The result probably isn't ideal, but this is the first bit of working (as in, it has a job and does it and isn't just an example) Python I've written. It uses the same style file as mIRC does: The first line is the number of remaining lines, each of the remaining lines is a possible reply. For anyone desperate enough to use this, remember to change the line with the file location.

( Scripty thing )