Re: Main Loop, IO Channels and my CLI

[Tristan Van Berkom <tristan van berkom gmail com>]

Øystein Johansen wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've just made a small glib code that read commands from from a command
> line interface prompt. It uses g_main_loop and a g_io_channel. I've
> attached the code.
>
> First:
> It nearly works as expected. The callback is called each time I enter a
> command, and it's parsed to the command handler. However, I want to
> expand this to system to use automatic string completion, (the system
> provided in glib), for all available commands. Now it only handles
> command as I press enter. I guess I need a extra callback for each
> keypress. This callback can check if I press <TAB> and then call
> g_completion_complete(), but how do I attach such a signal to the main loop?
>
>  
You need to get raw keyboard input from your terminal, in unix
you can use tcsetattr().

> Then:
> Can this be a bug? It work fine unless I use a special scandinavian
> letter in my commands. Do I have to convert my string at any time? How?
> (I'm using win32 command prompt window)
>
> Example:
> myprompt> hello
> You typed: hello
> myprompt> Æsop
>
> ** (gnubg.exe:3128): WARNING **: Something went wrong
> Invalid byte sequence in conversion input
>
>  
You might want to change the encoding on the io
channel.. if you set it to NULL then it should work.

Cheers,
                       -Tristan