wait on system/port/input

Hi All, I would like to wait on system/port/input. Consider the following piece of code: a: system/ports/input txt: copy {} forever [ wait a b: copy {a} either "-" = b [ do txt txt: copy {} ] [append txt b] ] which I thought would append characters to txt, and do txt when you type "-" What happens: everything is appended to "txt", but the do is never done. Why I want this with 'wait: console input mixing with networs serving! Aka: the Rugby Console.... Any ideas? --Maarten

After your b: copy {a} ; a string! b == {a} == "a", therefore ("-" = b) will always be false. You should probably try: b: copy a ; press "-", enter, then escape key b ; == ["-"] first b ; == "-"

Hello Maarten! On 20-Ago-01, you wrote: MK> What happens: everything is appended to "txt", but the do is MK> never done. system/ports/input is opened as /lines. To do what you want you need to set it to normal. Anyway, I think DocKimbel has done something like that for his memory watcher... Nenad? Regards, Gabriele. -- Gabriele Santilli <[giesse--writeme--com]> - Amigan - REBOL programmer Amiga Group Italia sez. L'Aquila -- http://www.amyresource.it/AGI/

Hi Gabriele, Actually, Nenad uses 'ask The thing is that I want to integrate Rugby with the console, so that you can get mobile code as you type commands. A sort of jxta like P2P console. I found a post by Holger saying that the console internally doesn't call wait, which means that combining network + console + view would block out view. So... I'll do a console emulation in View, as I already have rugby and view integration. I will need some time to finish it, but you can expect this in a month or so. The Agent Reb.... Cheers, Maarten

Hello Maarten! On 20-Ago-01, you wrote: MK> I found a post by Holger saying that the console internally MK> doesn't call wait, which means that combining network + IIRC he also said some future version will... MK> console + view would block out view. So... I'll do a console MK> emulation in View, as I already have rugby and view MK> integration. BTW, I see you defined a rugby-view function... was that necessary? For REBOL Chat I just added my ports to system/ports/wait-list. Dunno if a console:// port can be added to the wait-list, though. Regards, Gabriele. -- Gabriele Santilli <[giesse--writeme--com]> - Amigan - REBOL programmer Amiga Group Italia sez. L'Aquila -- http://www.amyresource.it/AGI/

Hi Gabriele, rugby-view has the same effect as view/new , but I put it there to make things more explicit. I had the feeling that it is not well known that you can easily integrate view with network services. You can add console:// to system/ports/wait-list as I found out today in a posting by Jeff in the archives. Although I didn't figure out what wait-list does / means. This means that if you start your own console scheme before yoy start a rugby service..... it is gonna be fun. I am quite busy now at work, but I'll if some time in a week or so to do this. I hope to combine it with an interface to lookup.r on reboltech. So we get a world wide console! Should help when doing code samples etc. Cheers, Maarten

Hello Maarten! On 21-Ago-01, you wrote: MK> You can add console:// to system/ports/wait-list as I found MK> out today in a posting by Jeff in the archives. Although I MK> didn't figure out what wait-list does / means. AFAIK, ports in wait-list are always waited for when you call WAIT; e.g. WAIT [] should be like WAIT SYSTEM/PORTS/WAIT-LIST and so on. Regards, Gabriele. -- Gabriele Santilli <[giesse--writeme--com]> - Amigan - REBOL programmer Amiga Group Italia sez. L'Aquila -- http://www.amyresource.it/AGI/