OO Basic editor questions

Thomas Benisch wrote:
> Rony G. Flatscher wrote:
> 
>> Hmm, how about a menu option allowing editing text
with an external 
>> editor like emacs, vim etc. ?
>>
>> The same would make life for programmers a easier
with the scripting 
>> framework editor as well.
> 
> 
> Just for the case, that somebody wants to work on this.
The key problem
> with the integration of external editors or IDEs is,
that those editors
> work on the disk file system and cannot work on virtual
file systems.
> The Basic IDE works on some kind of virtual file
system, for document 
> macros especially on the document storage.

well that is knd of easy to solve, just do it as many other
clients that 
allow external editors to edit files on a virtual
filesystem, for 
example ftp/ssh clients type of programs..

They just save down the file to the local harddisk, and then
monitors 
this file for changes,and also monitors the application that
it started 
to see when it exits... whenever the file has changed it
puts back the 
file to the server, this can be done in OOo also, it takes
the macro 
virtual file and saves it to a temporary file, opens the
editor so that 
it edits this temporary file, and monitors the file for
changes, 
whenever it has been changed to reads the file back and puts
the content 
back to the virtual filesystem..

I know it is not a perfect sollution, but it is better then
nothing

/Christian Andersson

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Christian Andersson wrote:

> Thomas Benisch wrote:
>
>> Rony G. Flatscher wrote:
>>
>>> Hmm, how about a menu option allowing editing
text with an external 
>>> editor like emacs, vim etc. ?
>>>
>>> The same would make life for programmers a
easier with the scripting 
>>> framework editor as well.
>>
>>
>> Just for the case, that somebody wants to work on
this. The key problem
>> with the integration of external editors or IDEs
is, that those editors
>> work on the disk file system and cannot work on
virtual file systems.
>> The Basic IDE works on some kind of virtual file
system, for document 
>> macros especially on the document storage.
>
>
> well that is knd of easy to solve, just do it as many
other clients 
> that allow external editors to edit files on a virtual
filesystem, for 
> example ftp/ssh clients type of programs..
>
> They just save down the file to the local harddisk, and
then monitors 
> this file for changes,and also monitors the application
that it 
> started to see when it exits... whenever the file has
changed it puts 
> back the file to the server, this can be done in OOo
also, it takes 
> the macro virtual file and saves it to a temporary
file, opens the 
> editor so that it edits this temporary file, and
monitors the file for 
> changes, whenever it has been changed to reads the file
back and puts 
> the content back to the virtual filesystem..

Does anyone know right off the head of a Java class that one
could 
employ (assuming that such Java classes would take advantage
of whatever 
functions the target operating system supplies for that
purpose)?

> I know it is not a perfect sollution, but it is better
then nothing

Hmm, also one would need a setup option to allow defining
the editor to 
use and a storage location from which to look up that piece
of information.

---rony

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