NAME

visualShell

DESCRIPTION

puts up a terminal interface to the leve system

AUTHOR

  Bruno Böttcher <bboett at adlp dot org>

COPYRIGHT and LICENCE

 Copyright (c) 2002 Bruno Boettcher
 visualShell.pl is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
 as published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2
 of the License.
 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 GNU General Public License for more details.
 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
 Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA.
new
constructor for the new leve shell

Methods of this class

init
set up the main datastructures of this object, make it ready for the run

start of the poe session
stop of the poe session
default of the poe session
instantiateTerm
create the shell object ready to start the session after that

runShell
start and run the shell, this is an interactive process, so it won't exit unlees the user asks for it! this blocks all if not called from the correct spot!

quit
shutdown the whole thing

delegate
send the stuff piped here to the controlling session

handle_task_result
Handle information returned from the task. Since we're using POE::Filter::Reference, the $result is however it was created in the child process. In this sample, it's a hash reference.

handle_task_debug
Catch and display information from the child's STDERR. This was useful for debugging since the child's warnings and errors were not being displayed otherwise.

handle_task_done
The task is done. Delete the child wheel, and try to start a new task to take its place.

Debug
an alternative to the print method prints out on the console but as the same time pastes the stuff also into a log file

print
wrapper for the print method, prints to a visual instance if present otherwise to the console

server
Getter for the server instance the thing that allows us to communicate with the patternServer

got_input_handler
some input went in from the visaul instance, handle it

keypressed
some key was pressed in the visaul console, lookit up, if its a tab, count it, and make the adjustments as necessary for eventual completions.

setargCompletions
getter to setup the argument completion list

THANKS

I. Wronsky came up with the concept for leverloda This gave B. Boettcher the incentive to begin this work, the famous itching paradigm!

SEE ALSO

http://www.geocities.com/iwronsky/ http://poe.perl.org/