Named pipes?  That sounds like a case of overkill.  When AXIS generates
the preview, the g-code interpreter lives in the same address space, so
any kind of in-memory structure is going to be fine.  For instance, a
linked list or array of frames, each containing a filename, line number,
and the "local" variables.  Plus a way to access the "global" variables.

Right now the interpreter has strings that are marked for translation,
but it does no translation itself.  Instead, when the GUI gets the error
message by number, it looks it up in the catalog.  But if the message
has been formatted (e.g., turned from "X coordinate %f is too big" to "X
coordinate 1000 is too big") then it can't simply be looked up in the
catalog.  This means adding to the interpreter the step that looks up
the format string to find the translated format string.

I suggest getting rid of the 100 or so different numbered errors because
it is a needless complication to have two ways to look up an error: One
by looking up an entry in a table based on the number, and another by
looking in some buffer for a string.  Throw out the old cruft when you
replace it.  Don't keep the old cruft around forever.  (at least as far
as the mostly-internal API is concerned, I'm not suggesting that you
break compatability with old g-codes)

Jeff

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