[Chicken-users] replacement for rlwrap on MS Windows, MinGW

2013-07-26 Thread Claude Marinier
Greetings, I have stumbled upon a potentially useful tool for Scheme development on MS Windows. It comes to us from the "alien" world of Lisp (it's actually written in C++, Daan just likes Lisp). http://www.daansystems.com/lispide/ So far, so good. I configured it to use its Scheme keyword

Re: [Chicken-users] Chicken and GUI programming

2013-07-26 Thread Peter Bex
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 11:27:04PM +0400, db05 wrote: >Ah, also stay away from thread-wait-for-i/o on files descriptors. Actually, that's fine. The problem is that our Windows implementation needs to be rewritten from "POSIX" select() (which isn't POSIX select) to WaitForMultipleObjects. Che

Re: [Chicken-users] Chicken and GUI programming

2013-07-26 Thread db05
Ah, also stay away from thread-wait-for-i/o on files descriptors. ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users

Re: [Chicken-users] Chicken and GUI programming

2013-07-26 Thread db05
Check how many times your application call GetMessage&DispatchMessage. Faster message delivery give better responsibility. If u see "Not responding..." caption in the process explorer thats mean your application didn't pump messages about 5 seconds or longer. Also check srfi-18 theards usage

[Chicken-users] Chicken and GUI programming

2013-07-26 Thread Michele La Monaca
Hi, I am investigating the feasibility and the opportunity to write (basic) Win32 GUI apps using Chicken. So far I think I've obtained good results leveraging Christian Kellermann's nice technique to handle callbacks (http://pestilenz.org/~ckeen/blog/posts/callbacks.html)*. I am able to create wi

Re: [Chicken-users] replacement for rlwrap on MS Windows, MinGW

2013-07-26 Thread Christian Kellermann
* Claude Marinier [130726 01:35]: > > On Thu, 25 Jul 2013, Christian Kellermann wrote: > >* Christian Kellermann [130725 10:48]: > >>* Christian Kellermann [130725 10:29]: > >>>* Peter Bex [130725 08:59]: > On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 06:57:56PM -0400, Claude Marinier wrote: > >Just to mak

Re: [Chicken-users] parley, termios, and linenoise

2013-07-26 Thread Christian Kellermann
* Claude Marinier [130726 02:33]: > Greetings, > > The author of linenoise (antirez) made an interesting choice: linenoise > uses a handful of basic ANSI escape sequences. The assumption is that > command line programs today tend to run in an xterm (I would like to > include the MinGW shell). >