[forge-dev] WindowBlu for Forge

[Mike Brock]

Unlike you, I'm not opposed to plugins that interact with low-level aspects of Forge. I think there's really two different classes of plugins for Forge:

1) Code comprehension and enhancement plugins.
2) Plugins which enhance the Forge environment itself.

The plugin I showed here fits into category two. 

On Nov 16, 2011, at 6:57 PM, Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:

>> That's what the ShellMessages utility is for.
>> 
>> ShellMessages.error(shell, "my error message");
> 
> Yes I know - but it came about later … ;)
> 
> just an example of the API plugins get exposed to, should be a bit more high-level than manipulate shell colors and buffers.
> 
> /max
> 
>> 
>> We could think about how best to unify this, but we are trying to keep Shell a bit cleaner.
>> 
>> ~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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