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[Marco Serantoni <marco.serantoni@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 27/ott/2010, at 15.22, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>> I also misunderstood Marco's email in thinking he was proposing a plugin-framework, but that is not the case. However, having this in Kicad would make it easier to add a plugin-framework. Eagle seems to have a large amount of scripts around, so there must be some use for it. Of course, Kicad is open source so the most wanted plugins could be ported inside Kicad. 
> 
> External scripts cannot handle wxWidgets events so posting events from
> BASE_SCREEN.  Unless Marco is proposing the creation of a custom internal
> scripting language that runs in the current process this won't work.  AFIAK,
> events can't handled be sent across process boundaries.  You need to use some
> type of IPC such as sockets or dbus for that.
> 
No, definitelly, i'm not proposing to create a custom internal scripting language, and in case, the SCREEN is not the best place to start with.
I also think that bind command events is not a good way, being  too much gui tied you have to listen Menu and Toolbar ones and tomorrow probably  you should also listen additional command IDs.


>> 
>> This is just what I understood after a small conversation I had with Marco. Of course, he can probably explain things a lot better than me, although he convinced me it was "a good thing", for what it is worth.
> 
> It may be a good thing.  I'm not entirely convinced.  All Marco's patch current
> does is post events when the grid or zoom level is changed or the BASE_SCREEN
> object is initialized.  Since there are no handlers for them, they end up being
> ignored by wxWidgets main event loop ( in other words they go to the bit
> bucket).  The custom events themselves are good idea and could be dispatched
> from the main window in response to the user selecting an new grid or zoom
> setting but I don't see the need to send messages from the BASE_SCREEN object.


If you don't have them, you can neither have a consumer for those events, Chicken and Egg dilemma.


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Marco