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Re: Able to access the running orion?

To: Rohan Nicholls <rohan.nicholls@pareto.nl>
Subject: Re: Able to access the running orion?
From: Martin Gasbichler <gasbichl@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 16:19:21 +0200
Cc: scsh-users <scsh-users@scsh.net>
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Rohan Nicholls <rohan.nicholls@pareto.nl> writes:

> Martin Gasbichler wrote:
>> Rohan Nicholls <rohan.nicholls@pareto.nl> writes:
>>
>>>Hi again,
>>>
>>>I am wondering if it is possible to access the running orion
>>> process/environment to be able to make adjustments and
>>> interactively test code.  Something like the sawfish-client
>>>is what I am thinking of.
>> No, currently Orion doesn't provide dynamic access to its internals,
>> even though it shouldn't be too hard to add.
>
> Okay, excuse my newbie-ness but what would be involved, and where
> would I start?

I guess you would need to create a new message type in the root window
manager manager and install a keyboard binding.

> I am guessing something like being able to access the scshvm through a
> port, but I could be really off the mark here.

You could solve that inside Orion, no need for a separate port.


-- 
Martin

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