[SVN] RFC: async window support for tm_dialog

[Chris Thomas]

I should note that this will something like the following from a  
typical Ruby script inside TM:

TextMate.call_with_progress(:title => 'Game Progress', :summary =>  
'Playing the game...') do | dialog |
   # start the process...
   [...]
   dialog.progressValue = 40
   # do something else...
   [...]
   dialog.progressValue = 80
   # finish up...
   [...]
   dialog.progressValue = 100
   # make sure the user sees we've finished
   sleep 2
end

On Nov 28, 2006, at 8:11 PM, Chris Thomas wrote:

>
> On Nov 28, 2006, at 7:37 PM, Jacob Rus wrote:
>
>>> � This is sufficient for implementing progress dialogs and other  
>>> 'broadcast' information. For two-way usage, there is no way to  
>>> actually retrieve the parameter values from an async window. You  
>>> would generally want to retrieve parameter values on a user  
>>> action, and there isn't a way to perform a callback yet. Perhaps  
>>> export a new IBAction from the File Owner that dumps the  
>>> parameters to stdout?
>>
>> So how exactly would a progress dialog work?  Must they be  
>> indeterminate progress dialogs? Because it would be nice to have  
>> moving bars sometimes.
>
> Here's a quickie sample session from the command line using a  
> determinate progress dialog:
>
> sorcerer% tm_dialog=/Users/chris/Library/Application\ Support/ 
> TextMate/Support/bin/tm_dialog
>
> # create and show the dialog
> sorcerer% $tm_dialog -a --parameters '{title = "Game Progress";  
> summary = "Playing the game..."; progressValue = 10;}' $HOME/Library/ 
> Application\ Support/TextMate/Support/nibs/ProgressDialog.nib
>
> # ... which returns the usual plist ...
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd 
> ">
> <plist version="1.0">
> <dict>
>         <key>returnCode</key>
>         <integer>0</integer>
>         <key>token</key>
>         <integer>7</integer>
> </dict>
> </plist>
>
> # ... fill the progress bar to completion ...
> sorcerer% $tm_dialog -t 7 --parameters '{progressValue = 40;}'
> sorcerer% $tm_dialog -t 7 --parameters '{progressValue = 80;}'
> sorcerer% $tm_dialog -t 7 --parameters '{progressValue = 100;}'
>
> # ...close the progress dialog.
> sorcerer% $tm_dialog -x 7
>
> The nib is set up so that you can specify the min and max values; it  
> defaults to 0/100, same as standard Cocoa. And, if you want  
> indeterminate instead, you can specify the isIndeterminate key for  
> the progress bar.
>
> Chris
>
>
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