Re: Greatings and some ideas

[Manuel E. S. <ra...@at...>]

On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 02:24:00PM +0000, Christoph Bartelmus wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Manuel Estrada Sainz "ra...@at..." wrote:
> 
 [...]
> >  How about a daemon which:
> >  	o parses the config file
> > 	o keeps track of IR sequences, mode and all
> > 	o sends only "config" strings to clients
> > 		o clients don't read .lircrc
> > 		o clients don't keep track of anything, simply obey orders
> 
> Yes, that's exactly what I already was thinking of some time ago. See the  
> link below.

 I'll put it on my TODO. I'd rather get confortable with the code while
writing the configuration GUI, after that I will give it a try.

> There was a thread on this topic some time ago on the mailing list.
> Here's the link to one of the mails in the archive:
> http://www.wh9.tu-dresden.de/~heinrich/lirc/list-archive/real/0832.html
> You will have to log in with lirc, lirc. Don't forget to set your browser  
> to a fixed width font.

 I coded something for you to look at, please play with the view menu and
tell me what you think:

	http://users.servicios.retecal.es/ranty/lirc/

 Keep in mind that I hate automagical tools removing all my hand writen
comments from files.

> I currently don't have enough time to work on this. But nethertheless,  
> please read through the relevant mails and tell me what you do think about  
> it. Maybe you can continue the work Pablo has begun.

 This is what I think should be done:
	o Allow modification of all posible comments from the GUI
	o Allow for different levels of detail
	o Programs may tell what their posible config strings are with a
	  "Template file".
		o Strings should be modifyable anyway
	o Fetch the list of remotes and buttons from lircd
		o Listen for button presses as a way of selection
	
 Also I am starting to look at the .lircrc parsing code and I have a problem and
a suggestion. The problems is that it discards comments, and I need them. The
suggestion is rewriting this code with flex/bison in such a way that it can be
used for both the GUI and the library, and also a bison grammar would be easier
to read and maintain than the current hand writen parser.

 Hope you like the prototype, please comment

 	Manuel

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