Re: perlTK

[John W. Eaton]

On  4-Feb-2000, Joao Cardoso <address@hidden> wrote:

| "John W. Eaton" wrote:
| 
| > On 31-Jan-2000, Joao Cardoso <address@hidden> wrote:
| >
| > | Couldn't Octave have a function to do it? Something like
| > |
| > |    on_idle("user function","user data")
| >
| > Sure, I've appended a solution.
| 
| Thanks!
| 
| But is seems that I have misunderstood its usage:
| 
| octave:2> function po(data); printf("%s\n",data);fflush(stdout);endfunction
| octave:3> po("Hello")
| Hello
| octave:4> input_event_hook ("po","meee")
| error: segmentation violation -- stopping myself...
| 
| I have tryed it with the last cvs. Hints?

It worked when I first wrote it, but then I broke the event hook
mechanism in liboctave when I was making changes to allow Octave to be
compiled by compilers other than g++.

Please try the following patch.

Thanks,

jwe


2000-02-04  John W. Eaton  <address@hidden>

        * oct-rl-edit.c (octave_rl_set_event_hook): Take address of
        rl_event_hook before casting to void **.
        (octave_rl_set_startup_hook): Likewise, for rl_startup_hook.


Index: oct-rl-edit.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/octave/liboctave/oct-rl-edit.c,v
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -u -r1.5 oct-rl-edit.c
--- oct-rl-edit.c       2000/02/02 06:22:13     1.5
+++ oct-rl-edit.c       2000/02/04 23:10:39
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@
 void
 octave_rl_set_startup_hook (rl_startup_hook_fcn_ptr f)
 {
-  void **fp = (void **) rl_startup_hook;
+  void **fp = (void **) (&rl_startup_hook);
   *fp = (void *) f;
 }
 
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@
 void
 octave_rl_set_event_hook (rl_event_hook_fcn_ptr f)
 {
-  void **fp = (void **) rl_event_hook;
+  void **fp = (void **) (&rl_event_hook);
   *fp = (void *) f;
 }
 



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