[Xotcl] Request for XOTcl proc and var type ahead in tkcon

[John McGlaughlin]

Thanks all,
Very helpful
Lazy John

Jeff Hobbs wrote:

>Oh yeah ... tkcon seems to be certainly well enough architectured
>(in this case ;) ) to handle this easily.  Add this to tkcon:
>
>proc ::tkcon::ExpandXotcl str {
>    # in a first step, get the cmd to check, if we should handle subcommands
>    set cmd [::tkcon::CmdGet $::tkcon::PRIV(console)]
>    # Only do the xotcl magic if there are two cmds and xotcl is loaded
>    if {[llength $cmd] != 2
>	|| ![EvalAttached [list info exists ::xotcl::version]]} {
>	return
>    }
>    set obj [lindex $cmd 0]
>    set sub [lindex $cmd 1]
>    set match [EvalAttached [list $obj info methods $sub*]]
>    if {[llength $match] > 1} {
>	regsub -all {([^\\]) } [ExpandBestMatch $match $str] {\1\\ } str
>	set match [linsert $match 0 $str]
>    } else {
>	regsub -all {([^\\]) } $match {\1\\ } match
>    }
>    return $match
>}
>
>and then do this:
>
>tkcon master set ::tkcon::OPT(expandorder) \
>   {Xotcl Variable Procname Pathname}
>
>Note that this puts pathname at the end, also addressing Gustaf's
>request that it's too picky.  You have to have Xotcl before
>Procname for it to be really useful.
>
>I've added the above proc to the tkcon sources, but I didn't change
>the expandorder to include it yet ... I suspect it's "fast enough",
>but if somebody with a slow machine could confirm, that would be
>nice.
>
>  Jeff Hobbs, The Tcl Guy
>  http://www.ActiveState.com/, a division of Sophos
>
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