Re: gEDA: Gwave snapshot 20001123

[Stefan Petersen <spe-at-NOSPAMstacken_dot_kth_dot_se>]

On 26 Nov 2000, thi wrote:

> Ales Hvezda <ahvezda@seul.org> writes:
> 
> > 	Hmmm.. Implementing this cross-applicaiton communication was 
> > suggested a few weeks ago via a socket mechanism (at least the idea of
> > a remote control for gschem).  How did you implement this remote-access
> > through the X server?  I'm curious (I suppose I could/should look at the
> > code, but I have week's worth of e-mail to answer :-)  Thanks
> 
> see below for an example server w/ usage instructions.
> (it does not rely on X.)

[cool source snipped]

Yess!!!

I thougth abt this, but since thi showed that a server is so simple, than
it might be easier than I thougth.

The idea is to "reuse" the functions called by key handling and make them
accept arguments. So if you call for example load-schematic like 
(load-schematic)
it will work like today with "Open File..." windows popping up etc.
But if you call load-schematic like
(load-schematic "foo.sch")
you will open the schematic directly into some window.

Am I to silly or just plain naive?

As you might notice I'm all pro guile. Looking in the mirror, I think it
is one the best decisions in this project. I was not all for it at the
time. But despite the "moving target" kind of work guile is, it's worth
it.

Regards,
/spe
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