[forge-dev] WindowBlu for Forge

[Lincoln Baxter, III]

I actually recommend using the following APIs over Shell:

ShellPrompt and ShellPrintWriter

Those already exist and provide the high-level functions without the low
level stuff.

This is perhaps not well documented enough, but we suffer from that quite a
bit at the moment.

~Lincoln

On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Max Rydahl Andersen <max.andersen at redhat.com
> wrote:

> > On Nov 16, 2011 5:38 PM, "Lincoln Baxter, III" <lincolnbaxter at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > That's what the ShellMessages utility is for.
> >
> > ShellMessages.error(shell, "my error message");
> >
> > We could think about how best to unify this, but we are trying to keep
> Shell a bit cleaner.
>
> How about somehow making Shell methods internal and mark the current ones
> deprecated and point to the better one to make
> plugindev's realize they are using "too low level" ?
>
> just a thought.
>
> /max
>
> >
> > ~Lincoln
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 10:24 PM, Max Rydahl Andersen <
> max.andersen at redhat.com> wrote:
> > It's cool - but I was really hoping such things as direct/raw text
> control/buffer output would not be exposed or at least not be the norm that
> plugins uses/depends on it.
> >
> > It still annoys me to see forge plugins that does shell.print(Color.RED,
> "blah blah") instead of shell.error("blah blah")
> >
> > /max
> >
> > On Nov 16, 2011, at 17:04, Mike Brock wrote:
> >
> > > Internally, there is a new concept known as a BufferManager.
> Essentially the idea is that a plugin can create it's own sub-buffer to the
> main shell buffer.
> > >
> > > When WindowBlu loads, it registers its own buffer with the Shell,
> taking control of the display buffer so it can intercept and translate all
> the ANSI -- as well as pre-buffer repainting of the titlebar to minimize
> flickering, etc.
> > >
> > > Mike.
> > >
> > > On Nov 16, 2011, at 9:03 AM, Koen Aers wrote:
> > >
> > >> Yeah, the windowblu command shuts down Forge Tools. I'll take a
> closer look at what can be done to support it.
> > >>
> > >> Cheers,
> > >> Koen
> > >>
> > >> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 1:49 AM, Lincoln Baxter, III <
> lincolnbaxter at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> I think you forgot the video :) this is awesome!
> > >>
> > >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQp_N-gGDzk
> > >>
> > >> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 1:09 AM, Mike Brock <cbrock at redhat.com>
> wrote:
> > >> So, I've been back working on Forge Core -- scripting and internal
> API improvements. One thing that upset me was that Forge lacked a
> sub-buffering facility for console output, so you could intercept console
> output and do fun stuff like add a status bar. Well, Forge has this
> limitation no longer -- at least not in my branch (
> https://github.com/mikebrock/core)
> > >>
> > >> Haven't pushed the changes upstream, mainly because I don't know if
> they break JBoss Tools or not -- pretty sure they don't break anything else.
> > >>
> > >> Anyways, here's my first demo plugin that takes advantage of these
> new features in the shell API: https://github.com/mikebrock/core
> > >>
> > >> Mike.
> > >>
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http://scrumshark.com
"Keep it Simple"
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