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[circle] oops I did it again
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thomasV1 |
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[circle] oops I did it again |
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Sat, 24 Jan 2004 18:23:16 +0100 (MET) |
Hi everybody,
Given the previous discussion, I understand that there are
two possible interpretations of what gui and core mean:
1. 'gui' can be understood in the strict sense, as:
'all what the user directly interacts with'
This is what thomasM and rodrigo mean.
The goal of this separation is to write cleaner code.
2. 'gui' can be understood as : 'all the objects that are needed once the
window is open,
but that are not needed if the daemon is running' (which is my
interpretation).
in this interpretation, gui includes chat and name_server.
The goal of this separation is not to write cleaner code, but to have a
'core' running
in the background, to which it is possible to attach various programs.
I implemented the separation at both levels.
The core now runs as a daemon (to start it, type you have to type 'circle
start').
The gtk interface can be called by typing 'circle gtk'. The chat and
name_server
objects are instanciated at this time, and they are stopped when the user
closes
the window. It is also possible to use the text interface, with 'circle
text'. However it
is still very buggy, and it needs to run in the same terminal where the
daemon was started.
So this implements my interpretation of the separation (2).
However, I also had to do the separation (1), because all gtk stuff
must run in the same thread. The gtk thread is no longer the main
thread as it used to be. So, in the sense of (1), the main thread does
the 'core' stuff and the gtk thread does the 'gui' stuff. if the core needs
to generate a gui action, it has to put this action in the gtk queue, and
the action will be performed in the gtk thread
(this is done using gtk.idle_add, or gtk.add_timeout).
The new version is in cvs.
a few eggs have been broken in the process:
- the proxy support is currently broken, but I will fix it.
- I would be very surprised if circle still works under windows.
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