[wingide-users] Execute with Output to an Editor Window

[Michael Foord]

Wingware Support wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, Michael Foord wrote:
>   
>> I've implemented a simple Wing script which executes the
>> current script with an external executable (the example shows
>> python as the hardwired executable). The output is piped into a
>> new editor window.
>>
>> You can see the script at:
>>
>> http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/weblog/arch_d7_2007_01_06.shtml#e605
>>
>> This was a feature we missed from TextPad. having the output in an
>> editor window is often useful.
>>
>> What we'd really like to do is turn tracebacks into links, with callback
>> functions that open the file at the right line. Is this even possible ?
>>     
>
> The editor doesn't have any facility for hot spots now and there
> isn't any point<->text position conversion in the API now so 
> you'ld be stuck going through the API to call GTK and Scintilla
> calls to get the point and convert it to position, etc.  If you 
> have access to the Wing sources, there is related code in the 
> src/edit/editor.py file (search for _from_point and point_).
>
>   
That *sounds* a bit brittle to me (subject to API changes).

What I'll probably do is use a regular expression and check the current 
cursor position - and just bind this to another key. Not quite as nice, 
but probably sufficient.

>> Also, is there a neater way to clear an output window than :
>>
>>     doc.DeleteChars(0, doc.GetLength())
>>
>> (Which doesn't seem to work.)
>>     
>
> It should probably throw and exception but you need this instead 
> for it to work:
>
> doc.DeleteChars(0, doc.GetLength()-1)
>
>   
Ok, thanks.

> Yes, for now this is the way to do it (we designed the API to 
> have one way to do things, rather than adding lots and lots of 
> functions).
>
>   
Understood.

>> Are all the methods on editor and doc objects documented anywhere ? The 
>> docstring on doc.DeleteChars wasn't astoundingly helpful :
>>
>> 	 API to access an open editor document.  A single document may be 
>> shared by multiple editors.
>>     
>
> Odd, it should say """ Delete characters in given range """ -- 
> although I realize that's not terrible information rich either...
> we'll try to improve this.
>
>   
Great.

> In any case, the goal is to do all the documentation in the
> docstrings in the code and if anything is added to the manual 
> as a reference, it would be auto-generated from those docstrings.
>
>   

Autogenerated API docs would be fine. (Endo is a good tool.)

I was browsing through the sources and couldn't *easily* work out which 
classes these objects were. Thinking about it now, accessing the 
'__class__' and '__module__' attributes of the objects would have been a 
good idea.

All the best,


Fuzzyman
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles.shtml

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>
> Stephan Deibel
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