[OpenSCAD] Feature Requests

[Ralf Schlatterbeck]

On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 03:42:11PM +0100, Marius Kintel wrote:
> 1) The commands/queries we want to send to OpenSCAD are not  
> (primarily) OpenSCAD commands, but application/GUI controls; opening/ 
> saving files, reloading, render, export, edit text. Since OpenSCAD  
> either can have multiple open documents or multiple instances  
> (depending on whether the user prefers MDI mode or not), we also need  
> to be able to query/select the correct document/window/instance.
> -> We need to expose some kind of DOM for the application.
> 
> 2) We need a transport mechanism for sending these commands/queries to  
> OpenSCAD. Domain sockets, TCP sockets, file monitoring has been  
> mentioned as alternatives. On Mac, this is standardized using  
> AppleEvents, which is a good solution for Mac since we can plug this  
> directly into any other scripting framework already existing. For  
> Windows and Linux I don't know about standardized ways of doing this.  
> The MDI/pid case also complicates this.
> -> It could make sense to decouple 1) from 2)

On Linux this is probably dbus. Whole applications are using this, e.g.
the farsight/telepathy framework for doing instant messaging and VoIP.
With that interface you can write a VoIP client that only uses services
via dbus.
But do you really want to go the route of having a different platform
specific communication mechanism for each architecture?

Ralf

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