[forge-dev] WindowBlu for Forge

[Max Rydahl Andersen]

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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