Re: [Gzz] (Lately)

[Tuomas Lukka]

On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 07:00:57PM +0200, address@hidden wrote:
> What I've done:
>   * Bugfixes to VobScene and binders
>   * Implement basic text edit in Fallback
>   * Implement connections in Fallback
>   * Restructured views
>   * Foundations for line cursors
> 
> Restructured views: I've made View and FallbackView into one class (View) by
> introducing the ViewContext abstraction, allowing you to retrieve stuff like
> the cursor position and the dimension set-- that can be implemented reading
> that from the structure or from a Java object.

For the moment, let's not be too concerned with the structure: first let's
make a thing that works right to the user. Then we'll build the turtles
inside.

> My request:

> Tuomas, could you please factor out / rewrite the algorithm from the
> ExternalEditor class? We need it for Fallback, because we cannot edit Jython 
> scripts
> (for the real client) in one-line cell vobs. 
...
> Anyway, do you think it would be a great hassle to implement this?

The problem is that the algorithm is really clumsy and isn't really good
to use: it doesn't find the most natural way to do things.

Is jython-speed ok?

        Tuomas