Re: [MacPerl-Porters] MacPerl Interfacing

[email protected] (Matthias Neeracher) Tue, 28 Jan 2003 09:38:35 -0800
Newsgroups perl.macperl.porters
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> So you want your editor to show up with its own menu, as BBEdit can?  
> Most
> of the code to tell you how to do it is available:
>
> 	http://cvs.macperl.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/macperl/macperl/
>
> Specifically, I think you want MPEditor.c.  It handles all the
> communication with the external editor (IIRC).  It shows you what 
> MacPerl
> sends to the external editor, and expects to receive.

Yes. You can find the entire BBEdit protocol on

http://www.barebones.com/support/develop/odbsuite.shtml

I'm not 100% sure that this is still the same protocol, and MacPerl 
uses only a subset of it, but it may help you understand the MacPerl 
code further.

Matthias