Interactive Console for Win32 Application

[Fredrik Lundh]

Devrim Erdem wrote:

> I am on win32 with python2.2.
>
> My python added C++ app is an OpenGL application so there is no real
> GUI code around it. I have built in the python interpreter which works
> very great. I would like to have the opportunity to popup a console
> from my application which has access to the python module which is
> defined and instantiated in my application.
>
> If I had the time, I would implement a Quake like console. To save
> time, I wanted to check if there is already a way of doing this on
> Windows.

I'll leave it to you to write the code that reads a line from the user, but
once you have that in place, the "code" module provides the rest:

    http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-code.html

outline:

    console = code.InteractiveConsole()

    myconsole = DisplayMyConsole(callback=console.push)
    sys.stdout = myconsole.get_output_handler(WHITE)
    sys.stderr = myconsole.get_output_handler(RED)
    myconsole.enter_event_loop()

(where the callback argument is called whenever the user enters a new
line, and get_output_handler returns a file-like object that prints to the
console window (it must implement a "write" method, but that's about
it).

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