Re: [Bug-apl] GNU APL GTK wrapper

[Chris Moller]

Thanks.  I had it the other way around with no space because that was dead simple to parse with strtoul() returning the nc and endptr left pointing at the name, but your way is still easy enough to parse.

Chris

On 08/28/14 11:49, Elias Mårtenson wrote:

Thank you. I've added it, but with a small change. The format is now NAME (space) NC

Regards,

Elias

On 28 August 2014 22:57, Chris Moller <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi, Elias,

I have indeed started adding a few APL-interaction features to aplwrap, one of the first of which uses your "variables" command, which leads me to a request: a variation in VariablesCommand.cc of "cls = ALL"  that tags the entries in the returned list with their name classes.  That makes it possible for me to get all the non-system functions and variables in one transaction and still differentiate between functions and variables.  I've attached a proposed patch.

Thanks,
Chris

On 08/13/14 23:28, Elias Mårtenson wrote:

Hello Chris,

I've been following the discussions about the GTK wrapper, and while I'm not using it myself (since I work on the Emacs integration) I realise that there are plenty of (potential) overlaps between our projects.

In particular, I want to let you know about the Emacs mode backchannel protocol that the mode uses for directly communicating with the GNU APL interpreter. When started, if gives you a simple text-based protocol through which you can do things such as defining functions or creating listeners that send you a message whenever a variable is changed (this is used by the realtime variable watcher).

It would be neat if you were to consider implementing some of the feature I added to the Emacs mode, and if you do it would be useful if you used the same protocol as I am using.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Regards,

Elias