Interactive Recognition Patterns

[Anthony R. Nemmer]

Have you thought about using Perl?

John M Church wrote:
> 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.
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> 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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> John M. Church
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> Thorsten Haude wrote:
>> Hi,
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>> * John M Church wrote (2006-11-16 19:06):
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>>> 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.
>>>     
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>> 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?
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>>> 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?
>>>     
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>> I would try NEdit's own widgets first, but I've seen NEdit extensions
>> using Tk (two ftp frontends I think).
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>> Thorsten                                               Radiohead: 
>> Vegetable
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