Package: buffycli Version: 0.1-1 Severity: wishlist
Following is the log of an irc conversation about a better way to do the looping & waiting for user input: 12:08 <mugwump> the man page has a minimal loop for readline-style input: http://search.cpan.org/~rcaputo/POE-1.003/lib/POE/Wheel/ReadLine.pm 12:08 <mugwump> and it has a bind_key method 12:09 <Mjollnir`> hm 12:09 <Mjollnir`> would you use a combination of that and term::screen ? 12:09 <Mjollnir`> or just that one 12:09 <mugwump> well, you could turn your loop into that 12:10 <mugwump> the POE::Kernel->run is the same as your while (1) 12:10 <Mjollnir`> ya 12:10 <Mjollnir`> it needs to timeout and refresh every n seconds with noinput as well though 12:10 <mugwump> right, so there's a timer module 12:11 <mugwump> actually a method; POE::Kernel->alarm 12:11 <mugwump> you'd make a method that you want to be called periodically, and add that to the "states" (think state machine) 12:12 <Mjollnir`> inline_states=> { 12:12 <Mjollnir`> _start => \&setup_console, 12:12 <Mjollnir`> got_user_input => \&handle_user_input, 12:12 <Mjollnir`> } 12:12 <Mjollnir`> would also take a periodically do this anyway, function ? 12:12 <Mjollnir`> as well ? 12:12 <mugwump> yeah basically just throw a "refresh" or something in there 12:12 <Mjollnir`> where is the list of what 12:12 <Mjollnir`> oh nevermind 12:12 <Mjollnir`> POE::Session will tell me 12:13 <mugwump> and to run the sub-process, you can use POE::Wheel::Run 12:14 <mugwump> I'd bet the program wouldn't be that much longer even with all that, and you've just added one dep, on libpoe-perl 12:14 <Mjollnir`> dep doesn't matter 12:14 <Mjollnir`> it's packaged 12:16 <Mjollnir`> setup_console sets up the events and then poe::session maps them to their handlers 12:16 <Mjollnir`> and I can see 12:16 <Mjollnir`> InputEvent => 'got_user_input' 12:17 <Mjollnir`> but surely a regular refresh isn't an input event 12:17 <Mjollnir`> really teh regular refresh event is just a timeout 12:18 <Mjollnir`> if it waits so long for user input and it doesn't come, do the refresh and start waiting again 12:18 <mugwump> right. so, you make an alarm for it, save the ID of the alarm in the heap ($_[HEAP]) and in the "refresh" event, clear the alarm if one's set and make a new alarm 12:19 <mugwump> note $_[HEAP] is a hashref, so eg $_[HEAP]{refresh_alarm} 12:19 <mugwump> then bind ctrl+l to the refresh event -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-vserver-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages buffycli depends on: ii libbuffy-perl 0.5 Perl wrapper for the libbuffy libr ii libtext-formattable-perl 1.01-2 Format text tables ii libtie-ixhash-perl 1.21-2 ordered associative arrays for Per ii perl 5.10.0-11.1 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction buffycli recommends no packages. Versions of packages buffycli suggests: ii mutt 1.5.18-2 text-based mailreader supporting M ii offlineimap 6.0.0 IMAP/Maildir synchronization and r -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
