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From: The Anarcat <anarcat@anarcat.dyndns.org>
To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: basic label editor stub, take II
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On Mon Oct 08, 2001 at 01:38:00PM -0700, Jordan Hubbard wrote:
> > Anyways, this interface is getting rather heavy. Isn't there a way to
> > export tables such as sliceTypeNames[] from C/C++ to TCL?
>=20
> 2. Register a sliceTypeNames procedure instead (also from C) which
>    takes an index as an argument and returns the relevent data.  This
>    allows the sliceTypeNames variable to have more dynamic contents,
>    and it's comparatively easy to use [sliceTypeNames 1] from TCL
>    in lieu of sliceTypeNames(1).

this seems more appropriate to me. The proc could be seen as a "dynamic
converter" between the int and the char*. So instead of doing:

set d [Disk "ad0"]
d type_text

you would do:

type_text [d type]

(right?)

[same with the "subtype" field]

This would cut down on the number of *_text* proc needed, and
consequently cleanup the interface.

This would also make type_text global (?) and it would therefore be
available outside the object (no?).

Please remember that I'm new to the mighty H and that I do not clearly
understand the relations between the C and TCL api... Ring if I'm
talking nonsense. :)

A.

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