Ok, I just committed an initial version of the LSCP shell to SVN. The
application is just called "lscp". There is also a man page.
I decided to go the thin-client route, that is LSCP aware stuff being handled
on sampler side, and the shell application is more or less just forwarding
individual key strokes to the sampler and handling output format (color &
printing) of the returned informations on the command line terminal. That
should make the shell be versatile for being used successfully against various
LinuxSampler versions, no matter what the exact LSCP version is, and keeps
development/maintenance effort low.
Current shell features:
- Colored highlighting while typing (i.e. good portions bold white,
syntactical bad portions red, if the command is complete and ready to
be fired: green, ...).
- Auto completion by tab key. The shell will also show a possible
completion in real-time while typing. So that one does not need to
guess when it is possible to tab-complete the command. You see it
immediately.
- Auto correction of trivial mistakes: for now this just covers auto
converting i.e. lower case characters to upper case (if necessary,
according to current LSCP grammar position), space characters to
underscore characters and vice versa (also according to grammar
position).
In future: orthographically similar mistyped keywords might be auto
corrected as well. Not a hard task.
I actually also planned to integrate the LSCP reference into the shell. That
is, if a certain LSCP command is identified, the shell would automatically
show the relevant LSCP reference document section below the current command
line (and paging the shown LSCP reference with PGUP, PGDOWN keys).
However ... I have now to work on completely other stuff for a while, so this
spare time fun is postponed for now.
The Windows version of LinuxSampler is currently broken, because I used the
POSIX termios API to get the required control over the command line terminal.
That API does not exist on Windows. If anybody is interested in trying to fix
this on Windows, it would be very much appreciated!
That's it for now.
CU
Christian
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