I actually started this as a gadget, but the amount of work it turned out it would require to track each users state and maintain cursors was just more than I really wanted to do, besides the fantastic Google engineers had already done the work, why not leverage that?
Now, if I could write a gadget that had access to the robot API somehow, that would be ideal... On Oct 28, 8:43 am, stinkymatt <stinkym...@gmail.com> wrote: > If I were writing a syntax highlighting feature, I wouldn't implement > it as a bot, I would do it as a gadget. As you say, if it is to work > while the user is typing, then the process that highlights the syntax > needs to know about the keystrokes. So a robot would have to know > about keystrokes as they come across. That's a lot of network > communication. However, a gadget can highlight syntax with no extra > network communication. > > On Oct 28, 1:21 am, voidref <void...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > For my syntax highlighting bot, I want the highlighting to be while > > typing is happening, however getting a notification on every character > > input will be a serious problem for bandwidth and processing. > > > Does anyone have any suggestions for doing this via a mechanism rather > > than DOCUMENT_CHANGED? > > > Is the cron job the way to go? Can I get access to the waves? Can a > > Context be 'stored'? > > > Thank you, > > Alan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Wave API" group. To post to this group, send email to google-wave-api@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-wave-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-wave-api?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
