Interactive Recognition Patterns

[John M Church]

Thanks to Thorsten and Joachim for your responses.  The data files can 
be on the order of 1 MB apiece.  Every so many milisec. a list of 
electrical switches (numbered) and their status (on/off) is appended to 
the data file.  If an analyst is interested in a particular set of 
switches he has to do a lot of "finds" with his switch no.  Of course we 
have other, more efficient ways to look at the data (plots) but this 
kind of review has some value at times.

Both of you suggested macros.  I think of macros as generally a sequence 
of actions that one can trigger that does something on an 
instance-by-instance basis (move to the next text that satisfies some 
criteria).  However I admit to not having worked with them much.  I went 
through the help menu last night but it wasn't obvious to me where to 
start (any resources you could suggest for nedit macros?).  In any case 
I want to label/highlight/backlight all the file at once so the user can 
easily scroll back-n-forth, split panes, etc. to see all the switches 
that match.  Can macros do this?  Joachim, I looked at backlighting also 
but it seemed to only apply to the whitespace between the text - not the 
text itself.

John

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Thorsten Haude wrote:
> Hi,
>
> * John M Church wrote (2006-11-16 19:06):
>   
>> I'm interested in providing users a way to open a data file and 
>> highlight items that are of interest to them that they can change while 
>> the file's open without having to know how to navigate-to and modify the 
>> recognition pattern.
>>     
>
> Should be possible with macros. What kind of items are we talking
> about? An arbitrary part of a document or one of a fixed set of
> options?
>
>
>   
>> Ideally I'd provide them a Tk-based GUI they could call via the
>> nedit's shell menu that would change the pattern for them and have it
>> take effect immediately.  Is this possible?
>>     
>
> I would try NEdit's own widgets first, but I've seen NEdit extensions
> using Tk (two ftp frontends I think).
>
>
> Thorsten                                               Radiohead: Vegetable
>