Using bison (or bisonc++) to create parser for command completion

[José Alburquerque]

Hi.  I'm not subscribed to this list, but I'm hoping someone here can 
still help me.  I'm attempting to develop a small front-end to 
dvdauthor  in C++ to logically create DVD's to be played in standard DVD 
players.  I would like to include "command completion" functionality in 
an area of the GUI for accepting low level commands to the DVD player 
based on a very simple language, already specified for this purpose by 
the dvdauthor developers (if I'm not mistaken)[1].  All I'm really 
asking for, if possible, is clarification on whether bison can be used 
to create a parser for the simple language and then somehow use the 
parser to tell what might come after certain keywords.  If so, is it 
straight forward?  Finally, I've looked a bit at bisonc++ and am 
wondering if it can be used instead of bison for the same purposes (I'd 
rather have C++ classes, if possible).  Please, any clarification would 
be greatly appreciated.


[1] See the "Language Description" section at the bottom of the 
dvdauthor manpage: http://dvdauthor.sourceforge.net/doc/dvdauthor.html

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José Alburquerque
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