Re: [sc-dev] library config

[Arve Knudsen <aknuds-1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 14:52:44 +0100, stefan kersten <steve@xxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 12:00:21PM +0100, Arve Knudsen wrote:
> > Just an idea, perhaps it would be good to factor commonalities between 
> > the
> > app and SC_TerminalClient into a base class? It could take care of
> > initialization, library loading and such. Perhaps better implemented as 
> > a
> > component class, rather than derived from. I was thinking of creating a
> > Python interface (with the help of SWIG) to sclang, so I could script it
> > from within Vim (built with Python support).  A more basic client class,
> > which doesn't read from the commandline would be useful here I think. 
> > Am I
> > on to something?
>
> i've split the class into an abstract base class (SC_LanguageClient)
> and SC_TerminalClient. SC_LanguageClient parses common commandline
> options (memory, network port) and strips them from the argv. you can
> also pass options from your program, though.
>
> maybe have a look at it, the interface may still be missing something

Perhaps the LanguageClient is still a little too tied to console 
semantics, like parseOptions and printUsage? I'm thinking it should rather 
contain minimal functionality, common among clients (graphical, console, 
whatever). I did implement a basic client for my own use, if you would be 
interested in having a look at it least.

It offers what I identified as basic services, such as interpreting 
command lines. I don't know SuperCollider very well yet though, so I could 
be way off. I implemented it as a concrete class as well, because I dont 
_think_ it would be necessary to make these services part of the deriving 
class' interface (the Liskov IS-A principle). I'm attaching my version of 
SC_TerminalClient.cpp and SC_ClientBase.cpp in case you care to comment 
(keep in mind the interface could probably use some work).

I don't really know how the integration is done with Emacs (there are some 
SC language files involved from what I can see), but I played around with 
scripting SC from within Vim (with Python), with an interface to 
SC_ClientBase generated by SWIG. I'm currently able to evaluate 
blocks/lines of code at least. There isnt any existing Vim plugin for SC 
is there?

Regards

Arve Knudsen

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