Ah, I get what ScoutDavid was saying now (after our conversation over IRC).

A batch file is fairly straightforward to implement for this. Very, in fact.

But you could use this as part of another Python module (in this case, a wxPython GUI) without any modifications. (now that I come to think of it).

If you import calcpkg, you can call various functions like "ticalcSearch", "ticalcUpdatePackageLists", "ticalcCount", and "ticalcGet" without needing to invoke the program on the command line (which you could do anyway using the subprocess module). You'd just pass them arguments and they'd do stuff. The IRC bot is a good example of how you could run ticalc.org searches from another module.

Quote from: Builderboy on December 04, 2010, 05:26:42 pm

I haven't seen a review get posted in over half a year unfortunately

Probably that's because they have no review editor

They have one, but he (chronomex/Duncan Smith) is just lazy and/or rather busy.

Attached is the current version of the package manager (adapted slightly for IRC) and the bot. (The bot imports the package manager).

It uses the Twisted framework for Python 2.x- which requires both Twisted and Zope.Interface to run.

It is set to join #cemetech and #omnimaga by default on whatever IRC network you specify when you run it- you specify the network by:

"python calcpkgbot.py #otherchan irc.efnet.net"

#otherchan could be anything- making it #cemetech or #omnimaga would make it only join the two default channels.

There are five commands in there- in addition to !calcpkg list, !calcpkg count, !calcpkg update, and !calcpkg help, I added a !nick to change the bot's nickname remotely (the default is set to "Hex", a Terry Pratchett reference and most likely a nick already in use somewhere).

The update command can only be ran by operators because it's a time/resource intensive operation.

If you send commands to a private message, it will return them to you via private message- so if it's spamming up the channel you can make people take it to privmsg (or just silence it). DJ suggested flood control of some sort- that is the closest I came to doing it now.

Quote from: TC01 on November 30, 2010, 06:15:55 pm

Mine is the TI-89 equivalent of the "RAM clear" avatar that someone has... can't remember who. Or did have.

It's the "LINE 1111 EMULATOR" error message. It's a crash of some sort, but the calc doesn't auto RAM clear, so it just sits there with that black bar across the screen until you reset it.

But, I took it in TiEmu, which has a smaller display screen than the LCD on the actual calc, so that's why it's a little small.

The TI-89 has an emu like NSpire's TI Emu? That's cool!

The NSpire's emulator is very good, but NCubate is much better because it allows ndless and easily C programming

Err, not exactly. The 68k emulator made by the community (now debrouxl) is called "TiEmu".

It's good and well-integrated with GCC4TI (and TIGCC).

I've fixed the #!/usr/bin/env python and added case insensitive searching. I think it'll just be best to distribute one copy for Windows and one for Unix/Linux, with the different line endings set.

I still need to get multiple files with the same name working, and a switch for searching in a specified directory. Once that is done, I'll upload a new version.

I also integrated it with an IRC bot... sort of. The bot can do "!calcpkg count text" and say in the channel the number of results. It can do "!calcpkg list text", but since saying it all in the channel would be bad, it pastebins the results and just gives back a link to that Pastebin. And "!calcpkg update" can be ran as well.

The Twisted framework for Python doesn't support sending files to people with dcc, so I can't make it download the files and send them to you.

Odd.

I tried running this on my Fedora partition. At first, the output from running "calcpkg.py list" was screwy, but it still worked (it was still able to download packages fine when I ran "calcpkg.py get").

Then I ran an update to rewrite the package index files and the output looked normal.

So all I can say is, run a "calcpkg.py update" before anything else when trying it on Linux.

Ah good to hear it will work on 7. I should try this and install python when I get some time.

I worry about what will happen if I type quadratic solver, though... I'll get about half of the quadratic solvers on ticalc.org (the other half not being spelled correctly)

True. quicklist "Quadratic Solver" gives me 157 results:


If there was a ticalc.org repository set up in the same way as, say, a Linux repository, it would be much easier. I'm forced to use "Search" to get files.

All I'll say is: there's a reason "get" prompts you before it downloads something...

Also, you can use CTRL + C to interrupt the current process.

Strange, I would have thought that libraries/compilers/whatever that are available to code on 68K now supported the 89T. X.x Good luck fixing compatibility with the calc.

Well, X-Link is a 83+ application, not an 89 application. So it's not really a problem with 68k coding.