On Tue, 21 Jul 2009, Dov Grobgeld wrote: > Here are two programs that implement through the text viewer > widget what you are asking for: > > - The Python console in gimp > - GemTcl - a tcl interpreter > > The way I set up the interaction is to listen to both the > key-press-event and the insert-text events of the text-viewer. > The key-press-event signals to the insert-event handler that it > is supposed to enter eval mode... and the insert-event catches > this before the newline is inserted into the buffer, runs the > eval and inserts the result into the buffer[.]
Thanks for the references. That is pretty much what I have been doing up till now. What I really wanted that was new, though, was a loop of precisely the form while (get_a_command()) { respond } where get_a_command is a function, to which all the GUI apparatus is subservient, that can be passed as a callback. The reason is that I want to enable the "hijacking" of get_a_command by a debugger. That is, if the user has set a breakpoint in a script running in this sort of GUI console, the debugger can call get_a_command and offer "next", "continue" and so on. (The debugger itself lives in a library that knows nothing about GTK.) I've now been at least half successful in this. Allin Cottrell _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list