bSPLORKT

Uh, long time no C. Sorry.
So what happened, I passed most of my exams (except for PV168:the Java seminar (I didn't have time to do the project) and MB001:Analysis 2 (all of the slot collided with IB005 which I had to pass (and did))), then went to a family holiday (or "holiday"?) on Elba.
So, if you want to check out the photos, see himdel's picasaweb gallery.
And when I got back, I started to work, in soLNet. So far, I like it a lot.

And about all my other little projects, well, tell ya later.

But there's something you SHOULD see:
*TADA*
mpl, a mplayer wrapper .. written in Ruby, needs just mplayer in PATH

What's so cool about it?
* mpl without params does "mplayer *"
* mpl 1x01 does really "mplayer 1x01-TheFirstEpisode.ext" when 1x01 doesn't exist
* mpl folder/1x01 works too, folder must exist
* mpl folder doesn't work yet
* for a list of existing files, the behaviour is identical to mplayer's, mpl -fs *.avi does "mplayer -fs *.avi"
* mpl -R sorts the files randomly (all other -options are passed to mplayer)
* mpl first separates options and files, checks all the files to perform aforementioned substitutions, then runs "mplayer @options @files"

-- see mpl.rb --

#!/usr/bin/ruby

# params:
# -R --random randomize files

# does itcrowd/1x01 => itcrow/*1x01* conversion
#include himdel.blogspot.com

def split_ary(ary)
 a = []
 b = []
 c = false
 ary.each do |i|
  next if i == '-'
  if i == '--' then
   c = true
   next
  end
  a << i if c or not (i =~ /^-/)
  b << i if (not c) and (i =~ /^-/)
 end
 [a, b]
end
(files, opts) = split_ary(ARGV)

randomize = ((opts.include? "-R") or (opts.include? "--random"))
opts.reject! { |x| ["-R", "--random"].include? x }

def snd_save
 @play_state = `mpc | tail -n2 | head -n1`.chomp.sub(/^\s*\[(.*)\].*$/, '\1')
 @volume = `mpc | tail -n1`.chomp.sub(/^.*volume:\s*([0-9]*).*$/, '\1')
 `mpc toggle` if @play_state == "playing"
end

def snd_restore
 `mpc volume #{@volume}`
 `mpc toggle` if @play_state == "playing"
end

def mplayer( a, b )
 system("mplayer", *(a + b))
end

if files.empty? then
 files = Dir["*"]
end

files.map! do |fn|
 if File.exists? fn then
  if File.directory? fn then
   Dir[fn + "/*"].sort
  else
   fn
  end
 else
  dn = File.dirname fn
  bn = File.basename fn
  pt = "#{dn}/*#{bn}*"
  if Dir[pt].empty? then
   `locate "#{bn}"`.split(/\n/).sort
  else
   Dir[pt].sort
  end
 end
end
files.flatten!

files.reject! do |fn|
 ext = fn.sub(/^.*(\.[^.]*)$/, '\1')
 if ext[0..0] != "." then
  false
 else
  ['sub', 'srt', 'txt', 'pdf', 'tgz', 'rb', 'pdf'].map{ |x| x.sub!(/^/, '.') }.include? ext
 end
end

files.uniq!

class Array
 def shuffle!  
  each_index do |i| 
   j = rand(length-i) + i
   self[j], self[i] = self[i], self[j]  
  end
 end
 
 def shuffle  
  dup.shuffle!  
 end
end

files.shuffle! if randomize

snd_save
mplayer(opts, files)
snd_restore

__END__

EDIT: dirs work, does locate on still not found anything