SmaCC Development UI Improvements

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]] On
> Behalf Of Steffen Märcker
> Sent: 20. kesäkuuta 2011 14:31
> To: vwnc
> Subject: [vwnc] SmaCC Development UI Improvements
>
> Hi!
>
> I've made some minor improvements on the SmaCC UI I'd like to share.
> Previous versions block the whole IDE during compilation which prevents
> you from working on other code for quite some time if the grammar
> becomes
> bigger. I've spawned the compilation to a new thread and added Store's
> activity indicator the UI.
> The attached source modifies the SmaCC UI version shipped with VW 7.7.1.
> I
> think the changes can be easily integrated into version 2.0 from store.
> I'd like to hear your thoughts on this and would be happy to see these
> or
> similar changes in future releases of SmaCC shipped with VW.
>
>
> UI-Improvements:
> ----------------
> - compilation no longer blocks IDE
> - activity indicator
> - increased initial window size
>
> These modifiactions add a new dependency on StoreBase since it uses
> StoreProgressOverlay.
>
> Have fun!
> Steffen

> I made a similar change to prevent blocking, and noticed a nasty  
> side-effect: The shift/reduce warnings from the BNF parsing and parser  
> creation were no longer shown. And I thought I'd just got better at  
> writing BNF grammars :-).
>
> AFAIR this was because they were raised as Notifications which were  
> caught by the UI process in the 'Compile LALR' button action method, but  
> with compilation forked there was no longer an error handler around  
> compilation that caught these Notifications. You might want to check  
> that, if you haven't already.
>
> Steve
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]] On
>> Behalf Of Steffen Märcker
>> Sent: 20. kesäkuuta 2011 14:31
>> To: vwnc
>> Subject: [vwnc] SmaCC Development UI Improvements
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> I've made some minor improvements on the SmaCC UI I'd like to share.
>> Previous versions block the whole IDE during compilation which prevents
>> you from working on other code for quite some time if the grammar
>> becomes
>> bigger. I've spawned the compilation to a new thread and added Store's
>> activity indicator the UI.
>> The attached source modifies the SmaCC UI version shipped with VW 7.7.1.
>> I
>> think the changes can be easily integrated into version 2.0 from store.
>> I'd like to hear your thoughts on this and would be happy to see these
>> or
>> similar changes in future releases of SmaCC shipped with VW.
>>
>>
>> UI-Improvements:
>> ----------------
>> - compilation no longer blocks IDE
>> - activity indicator
>> - increased initial window size
>>
>> These modifiactions add a new dependency on StoreBase since it uses
>> StoreProgressOverlay.
>>
>> Have fun!
>> Steffen

> Hi,
>
> in case you are interested, I've attached a new version that actually
> disables the SmaCC UI widgets during compilation to prevent user
> interaction. (Previously they've just been faded out.)
> Btw, how can I get admission to publish to the public repository?
>
> Regards,
> Steffen
>
>
> Am 20.06.2011, 14:49 Uhr, schrieb Steffen Märcker <[hidden email]>:
>
>> As far as I remember, all notifications work. Actually my code is
>> inspired
>> by your hint earlier posted here on vwnc. =)
>>
>> Regards, Steffen
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Am 20.06.2011, 14:15 Uhr, schrieb Steven Kelly <[hidden email]>:
>>
>>> I made a similar change to prevent blocking, and noticed a nasty
>>> side-effect: The shift/reduce warnings from the BNF parsing and parser
>>> creation were no longer shown. And I thought I'd just got better at
>>> writing BNF grammars :-).
>>>
>>> AFAIR this was because they were raised as Notifications which were
>>> caught by the UI process in the 'Compile LALR' button action method,  
>>> but
>>> with compilation forked there was no longer an error handler around
>>> compilation that caught these Notifications. You might want to check
>>> that, if you haven't already.
>>>
>>> Steve
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]] On
>>>> Behalf Of Steffen Märcker
>>>> Sent: 20. kesäkuuta 2011 14:31
>>>> To: vwnc
>>>> Subject: [vwnc] SmaCC Development UI Improvements
>>>>
>>>> Hi!
>>>>
>>>> I've made some minor improvements on the SmaCC UI I'd like to share.
>>>> Previous versions block the whole IDE during compilation which  
>>>> prevents
>>>> you from working on other code for quite some time if the grammar
>>>> becomes
>>>> bigger. I've spawned the compilation to a new thread and added Store's
>>>> activity indicator the UI.
>>>> The attached source modifies the SmaCC UI version shipped with VW
>>>> 7.7.1.
>>>> I
>>>> think the changes can be easily integrated into version 2.0 from  
>>>> store.
>>>> I'd like to hear your thoughts on this and would be happy to see these
>>>> or
>>>> similar changes in future releases of SmaCC shipped with VW.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> UI-Improvements:
>>>> ----------------
>>>> - compilation no longer blocks IDE
>>>> - activity indicator
>>>> - increased initial window size
>>>>
>>>> These modifiactions add a new dependency on StoreBase since it uses
>>>> StoreProgressOverlay.
>>>>
>>>> Have fun!
>>>> Steffen
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