Re: [Monotone-devel] GUI communication.

[Adam Logghe]

Hey Zbigniew,

Yes there is a gui called "polytony", I haven't tried it but I think its
written in wxwindows.

I think it's here-

net.venge.monotone.gui

Adam

Zbigniew Zagórski wrote:
> Hi.
> Anybody working on GUI ?
>
> In fact i'd like to start writing some GUI to monotone. And i'm thinking
> how to start and how to do this. Now i'm about to write this in
> wxWindows, and communicate with monotone via stdin/stdout.
>
> Of course it would be nice to link monotone into GUI application, but it
>  easier to maintain one application and use monotone as "external tool".
> This is true with assuption, that monotone text ui will be quite stable.
>
> Other way of communication (which appeared when i've read commands.cc)
> which i have on mind is to make monotone read commends from stdin and
> process it in without exiting. Session would look like this.
>
> gui: execute monotone --db=somedb listen-commands
>                       redirecting stdin/stdout/stderr
> gui: list
> gui: branches
> gui: .            <- simple dot as in smtp as end of input
> monotone: ok
> monotone: somebranch
> monotone: somebranch22
> monotone: .        <- end of monotone output
> gui: list kehs
> monotone: err unknown command or something
> gui: heads
> monotone: ok
> monotone: e270b1a4307def6fde6051fec052084ba3bdb9c7 address@hidden ...
> monotone: <...>
> monotone: .
> gui: bye
>
> and so on.
>
> Thanks.