[TxMt] tm_interactive_input question

[Hans-Jörg Bibiko]

Hi Allan,

On 09.04.2008, at 23:28, Allan Odgaard wrote:
> On 9 Apr 2008, at 11:46, Hans-Joerg Bibiko wrote:
>
>> [...]
>> I see the dialog and the prompt but I cannot enter something and I  
>> cannot close the dialog (only APPLE+. works).
>> What I'm doing wrong?
>
> The problem is that the dialog was non-modal, i.e. relying on the  
> global event loop of TM, but that isn’t running during the  
> execution of commands. I have fixed it to make the dialog modal and  
> should work now.
Thanks a lot! I will try it out tomorrow.


>> BTW: How can I change the button's titles?
> You can set TM_I_WANT_PINK_BUTTONS=YES :p
Why not. My daughter would love it ;P

> Nah… presently there is no way to change button titles AFAIK, but  
> Luke did initially have environment variables for them. Question  
> is, does it make sense to change them? The “Send EOF” should  
> probably stay hardcoded, but an environment variable can be made  
> available to change the other one. Would that be enough?
Well, if one thinks in terms of a running script asking the user for  
whatever, it would be fine.
But I did play with an elder version (tm_read) and Rdaemon.
It seems that R (R running as daemon via spawn in an hidden pty)  
distinguishes between a 'read' coming from pipe as 'keyboard input'  
and the R command 'readline' which reads something from the keyboard.  
This led me to the assumption to use tm_interactive_input to solve a  
tiny problem - meaning whenever R executes the command readline,  
tm_interactive_input pops up a dialog to enter something. If there is  
a way to get rid of it - and there're a very few not only theoretical  
indications - then it would be nice not only to label the buttons but  
also to show only one button or even a NIB . ;)
[or a third button which kills the running process]

But back to the reality, I mean to be able to label the 'Send' button  
would be fine for now.

Thanks and mange tak,

--Hans