[MonoDevelop] New plugin development : Integrated virtual terminal

[Lluis Sanchez Gual]

Hi,

To show process output in the integrated console all you have to do is to call the method OnTargetOutput in the GdbSession class when you get some output through the tty.

El 07/08/2011, a las 02:00, Charles escribió:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm still working on it, actually I face some problems:
> 
> At this time, i have a class that is an abstraction of a pair of tty instances (master and slave). That works just fine!
> But I'm not sure about what i could do using it from a plugin for MD: because I guess that I would need to intercept and redirect a lot of streams and events, and don't think that it's possible at the moment: indeed, i have read the MD source code and found some "input access" from the class LogViewProgressMonitor : 
> 
> NotSupportedTextReader inputReader = new NotSupportedTextReader ();
> 
> So I guess some support for input was planned, but it seems I cannot access to this member and replace it.
> 
> 
> So, I already began to work patching the MD source codes themselves (got from SVN), and get some good results yet.
> 
> What I would want to know is, Could I really do it as a plugin, or should I make a patch anyway ?
> 
> 2011/8/3 Charles <charles.dmt at gmail.com>
> Hello,
> 
> I recently discovered MD 2.6 (under linux) after using the previous version for a while, and I noted that on debugging C/C++ code using GDB, MD was unable to capture the output of the code into the integrated console. After discussions and investigation, I learnt this integrated console was not a real console but only a text control linked with stdout. The problem is, GDM does not seem to have an option to redirect its output into a file (such like stdout) using the MI2 mode.
> 
> Anyway, I found that it would be nice to make MD provides a real integrated virtual console, so it can manage the input is the program ask for it, and the output can be displayed inside anyway.
> 
> So how do i see that ? The idea i to use some /dev/pts special files in order to develop a basic virtual terminal interface into a plugin. As a first goal, I should be able to use a "background" virtual tty that would only redirect its content into the actual console.
> 
> I start to work on it from that day, and hope to have some suit.
> 
> Best regards,
> unomadh
> 
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