[IronPython] Using an IronPython console with a Winforms component supporting the interactive I/O

Jean-Michel.Perraud at csiro.au Jean-Michel.Perraud at csiro.au
Wed Apr 26 06:15:17 CEST 2006


Hi,

I'd like to use IP in an interactive mode, but with the console being
typically in an MDI child form that can be launched from the main
application. After looking at a few possiblities I thought I should
start from the SuperConsole or BasicConsole distributed with IP, and
replace the System.Console with "some reusable code" with I/O streams
redirected to/from a Winforms text-related control.

Has anyone done that or something similar, or has links to relevant
information? After 'googling' quite a bit, surprisingly I did not find
much in the way of a Windows-based shell implementation doing the
aforementioned. The closets (and niftiest) example I saw was the
IronPython console sample in the latest preview Visual Studio SDK, but
I'd really like it not to depend at all on the SDK API, so this makes it
hard to reuse it without significant re-write.

I don't deal often with console-based approaches, so bear with me if I
missed something you think is obvious...

Cheers,
J-M



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