Writting LUA script 'User Manual' with ROBODoc

I've wrote a script using LUA for wireshark.
Now I need to document it, so I won't forget what I wrote when I'll come back to the code, 2-6 months later.

After a short research I've found this very nice documentation tool:

ROBODoc 4.99.40 User Manual

and here is an example config file (you'll need it later) I wrote (modified from this source: http://qe-forge.org/cgi-bin/cvstrac/q-e/fileview?f=espresso/GUI/Guib/doc/robodoc.rc&v=1.3)...

options:
    --src ../
    --doc ./api/printable/TBD-api
    --internal
    --html
    --singledoc
    --sections
    --toc
    --tabsize 4
    --index
    --nopre
    --documenttitle "TBD --  To Be Defined."
    --sectionnameonly
    --syntaxcolors_enable quotes,line_comments,block_comments,keywords,non_alpha

accept files:
 *.lua

ignore files:
 .svn
 doc

headertypes:
 e "Enums"    robo_sections

ignore items:

item order:
    FUNCTION
    SYNOPSIS
    INPUTS
    RETURN VALUE
source items:
    SYNOPSIS
    
header markers:
    --****
remark markers:
    --
end markers:
    --****
    
remark begin markers:
    --
remark end markers:
    --

keywords:
 and       
 break     
 do        
 else      
 elseif
 end       
 false     
 for       
 function  
 if
 in        
 local     
 nil       
 not       
 or
 repeat    
 return    
 then      
 true      
 until     
 while

source line comments:
       --
   

How to create Windows executable (.exe) from Python script

Now that your Pyhon program is loaded with command line arguments  your boss asks you to make it exeutable (EXE).

Here are some nice things I've found:

Tutorials:

• How to create Windows executable (.exe) from Python script
• http://www.py2exe.org/index.cgi/Tutorial

py2exe - http://www.py2exe.org/

getopt — Python's C-style parser for command line arguments.

Need to support command line arguments and options in your new Python program, here's what I've found:

Example code - http://www.eurion.net/python-snippets/snippet/Show%20getopt.html
Tutorial - http://www.doughellmann.com/PyMOTW/getopt/
Documentation - http://docs.python.org/library/getopt.html

Tip: HEX to BINARY File Converter Utility

In some cases - It's much easy to write in HEX in text then convert it to BIN file.

Intel HEX to BINARY File Converter Utility
http://hex2bin.sourceforge.net/
Direct file download: http://www.hex2bin.com/hex2bin/

GUIDE: Create your own free, cross platform binary log file with a viewer, with ease.

Hi, it can be done, and within days. Let's start...

Introduction
Did your boss just came to your office and asked you to dump stuff from the application to sniff what's going on in component #42?

Later on he'll might come and ask statistics, that it should support UNIX/Window/MAC/... , filtering, simple graphs, flow graph ...

Here are some pictures of these features in action:

I've wrote a tutorial to create a very simple (starter) sniffer. 

You can read more here... http://shloemi.blogspot.com/2011/05/guide-creating-your-own-fast-wireshark.html

Compile a TCL script into an EXE program

It can be done!

Solution:
How to compile a TCL script into an EXE program

Bat To Exe Converter

Here is an example of requierments:

• Create a script that automate blabla.... (I've presented a batch file after an hour or so).

After 5 sec:

• The script will be presented to out client as an exe file.

Well, here is the tool I used for the job: Bat To Exe Converter

Other utils that might come handy:

• http://renegadetech.blogspot.com/2006/07/how-to-convert-bat-file-or-vbs-file.html

Sorry for disapearing...

Hi,
I woarked a lot (and still do) in the last 4-5 mounths, I have many posts I wish to publish but very little time.
In the next mounth I'll try to publish at least 1 post a week.