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the-carlisle-group / Acre-Desktop

A simple Dyalog APL IDE plugin that introduces "projects" and allows you to keep your source code in Unicode text files.
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OpenProject versus LoadProject #40

Closed aplteam closed 6 years ago

aplteam commented 6 years ago

We could get rid of "OpenProject" by introducing a flag like 

]acre.LoadProject -monitor=0

which of course defaults to 1, or something similar like -nomonitor when -no would suffice.

PaulMansour commented 6 years ago

I have often wanted to suggest this, as I get confused from time to time, but I'm not sure I like the alternatives. We would have to come up with names or something new for the configuration parameters as well.

PhilLast commented 6 years ago

Just to point out that acre does its own parsing on the command string and nowhere uses any of these flags or modifiers. Not at all sure how they would fit in with the protocols we already have.

A remnant of the properties/options that are available in acre-3 that were specific to projects is available at a session level and at present control only output, message and result.

Not to say it couldn't be done.

aplteam commented 6 years ago

Right. I am pretty sure that Dyalog won't be thrilled at all that you coded around their implementation of user commands, to say the very least. It also leaves you vulnerable to any significant changes to any changes in this implementation.

PhilLast commented 6 years ago

Dyalog never complained that I didn't use ]user commands at all until about five years ago and Dan deliberately left an option to set the "Parse" parameter to '' to make the entire command string - after the command itself - to the user's "Run" function. That's all I do. acre is a perfectly standard conforming user.

Oh yes, and I never make any changes whatsoever to any supplied code in ⎕SE which I understand some users are wont to do. That would make me vulnerable to changes.

aplteam commented 6 years ago

The only alternative I came up with is to have 

Load
LoadAndMonitor

rather than Open and Load.

PhilLast commented 6 years ago

Thinking about this on the way back from London. It crossed my mind that two of the principle methods typically found in a context or file menu are Open and Edit. Dyalog use the conventional Open to mean ")LOAD" in the context of APL.

By the same token it seems to me that "LoadProject" is more akin to Open and "OpenProject" to Edit.

But to argue against my own suggestion I had it in mind to suggest a new command "]EditArray" that would take a named array, convert it identically to the way it's done for the sourcefiles as Array, CharList, CharMat or CharString, put it up in ⎕ED, reconvert the result and Save it.

aplteam commented 6 years ago

I think we now agree that having both commands is the best we can do.

If anybody thinks otherwise please re-open.