From: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Limbo Tk FAQ?
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 14:42:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010525144239.R21254@cackle.proxima.alt.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010525120255.399BF199ED@mail.cse.psu.edu>; from rog@vitanuova.com on Fri, May 25, 2001 at 01:10:55PM +0100
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 01:10:55PM +0100, rog@vitanuova.com wrote:
>
> i added a loadable module for the inferno shell to give shell access to
> tk; this also includes channels (as they're an inextricable part of the
> inferno tk interface).
>
The inferno shell is an utter treat.
> the only part not familiar from rc is the ${...} notation which yields
> the result of a loadable-module-defined command (sort of like `{...}
> but without the uncertainty of the usual stdout tokenization)
>
If I buy the manual set now, do I get a discount when I eventually get to
subscribe for the source licence?
> once you've defined a function to execute tk commands:
>
> fn x {
> tk $wid $*
> }
>
Is there a plumber module, too? Or should the "fn" syntax be enhanced
as for traps?
> one can execute tk commands quite simply:
>
> x button .b -text {Hello world} -command {send cmd hello, world}
> x pack .b
> x update
> chan cmd
> tk namechan $wid cmd
> while {} {
> echo ${recv cmd}
> }
>
> i guess this feels somewhat like tcl; it's certainly nice for hacking
> up simple graphical interfaces to shell commands.
All you're omitting is the upvar/uplevel capability to handle call by
reference. We can't be far from the real thing :-)
++L
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Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-25 12:10 rog
2001-05-25 12:42 ` Lucio De Re [this message]
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2001-05-25 9:59 rog
2001-05-25 10:45 ` Lucio De Re
2001-05-24 19:04 geoff
2001-05-24 18:50 geoff
2001-05-25 4:58 ` Lucio De Re
2001-05-25 7:44 ` Re[2]: " Matt H
2001-05-25 8:45 ` Lucio De Re
2001-05-25 12:44 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-05-25 13:28 ` Lucio De Re
2001-05-25 13:31 ` splite
2001-05-25 13:50 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-05-25 14:16 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-05-29 9:16 ` Randolph Fritz
2001-06-08 10:16 ` Barry Kelly
2001-05-24 18:17 forsyth
2001-05-24 12:29 forsyth
2001-05-24 13:04 ` Lucio De Re
2001-05-26 17:25 ` Berry Kercheval
2001-05-24 12:13 nigel
2001-05-24 12:08 Laura Creighton
2001-05-24 9:20 Richard Elberger
2001-05-24 11:09 ` suspect
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