Re: suggestion

[Dave Engvall <dengvall-at-charter.net>]

List:
As long as one will put up with C syntax at least parts of the .ini could be
done with the C preprocessor. Defining the module you want (steppermod,
freqmod, etc) could include most of the right stuff in a rather painless
way. 

On 10/9/02 2:19 AM, "robin szemeti" <robin-at-rszemeti.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> 
> On Wednesday 09 October 2002 02:03, Hassan S. Rabe wrote:
>> Hi Ray,
>> 
>> have a suggestion at this point...instead of
>> having all the configuration values for all the interfaces steppermod,
>> freqmod, stgmod...etc, in one file.ini, why there won't be a configuration
>> dialogue Box that has several pages, each one of theses pages deal with a
>> certain mode and has all the variables that need to be changed even connect
>> the variables that has some kind of a relationship.
> 
> umm ..  and if you are trying to modify the .ini on a machine without X ? and
> if you know what you want to do but cant get the GUI to do it without it
> upsetting something else? I dislike GUI's for simple tasks such as this.
> 
> Personally I prefer munging the .ini by hand ... Most of the problems arise
> out of having a 'generic' .ini with half the stuff not used etc etc .. whats
> really needed is in the emc.ini file  sections such as
> 
> [INCLUDE steppermod.ini]
> 
> where steppermod.ini contains only the required parameters for that module,
> freqmod.ini for that module etc, this would also allow basic working setups
> to be distributed with emc for each type of module and if done correctly, you
> should be able to just [INCLUDE ... ] the one you want to try with some
> degree of success.
> 
> this would mean that the ini was split over several files (which has its
> problems) but most of the problems Ive seen on the list relate to confusion
> over what does what and whats not used.  If split into several files the
> appropriate information could be included in a comment adjacent to the
> paramter with what it actually does in that module ( see the Apache
> httpd.conf for a very good example of this style )
> 
> a simple bit of Perl could be written to
> analyse the files and issue warnings
> 
> WARN baz is more than 10 times foo/bar at line 12 of stepermod.ini
> 
> etc. I did begin updating the documentation , but work has got in the way
> (again) ... 

Real bummer this work...it does have a way of getting in the way.

Dave