Re: event-repl

[Vollmer Marius <mvo zagadka ping de>]

Jay Bloodworth <jay@pathways.sde.state.sc.us> writes:

> I'm trying to grok guile-gtk and I can't quite figure out how
> event-repl.scm fits in.  I think I know what it is supposed to do, but
> since it's syntax and sematics appear to be different different from the
> standard guile repl function, I can't figure out how to call it to drive
> guile into the event drive r-e-p loop.

The program guile-gtk is supposed to boot right into this gtk-repl.

    % guile-gtk
    gtk>

You can get a gtk-repl from a vanilla Guile interpreter like this

    % guile -c "(use-modules (toolkits gtk)) (gtk-repl)"
    gtk>

I still consider this gtk-repl a hack and plan to use the
scm_internal_select hooks in the future.  That would cleanly integrate
Gtk's event loop into whatever Guile is doing, including running a
repl.