> On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 02:44:10AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > was heard to remark:
<snip lots of interesting stuff I'll respond do alter> > So for example, there could be an abi document that looked > like "the time now is XXX" and my c program would display > this document, and it would replace "XXX" by some other string > of the same length every few seconds, and there would be no > flickering, and at most an imperceptible redraw. > He He :-) We do this already. Open AbiWord, choose "Insert Field", Choose "insert time" watch it update in your document. It is easy enough to make a "Insert Data base element" as a field with some SQL query or higher level abstraction assosciated with it and have it update in the doc in real time. This is at the expense of doing a data-base query every N seconds. I guess you'd call this a "pull" from AbiWord. I think this would be rather easy to implement with libgda. I should speak to Rodrigo about it. A push from an exteranl AbiWord is also possible but I'm quite scared of the security implication of this. I'd also have write an API and learn how to open up a socket or maybe a corba/bonobo interface. In both cases I think I'd need help from database-guru's on how to write an API to best do these things from the C-programmers perspective. ie What has highest appeal? socket/corba/bonobo/pipe? From my perspective it's much easier to implement the querey every "N" seconds approach rather than the potential security issues associated with allowing abi to be controlled by a remote program. > I do *not* want to generate a whole lotta xml and save it > to a file or pipe it anywhere or send or receive it or anything > like that. I most certainly do not want to edit the file > containing the XXX, replace the XXX with some asci string, > and pipe that file to abi to redisplay. I do *not* want to > do that. > No problem. :-) We can be smarter than that. Cheers Martin _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
