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So, what I'm thinking of doing is using the built-in web server in Kawa to serve up the Javascript story file locally, and then have debugging functions within the Javascript code pass state information back to the server, and from there display the state info in the editor UI. What I'm not sure about is a) whether it is possible to simultaneously run the web server and have an interactive UI, and b) whether the web server and the UI code can communicate.
So far, I've tried a simple experiment by doing: kawa --http-auto-handler / . --http-start 8888 mycode.scm where mycode.scm is (display "hi\n") and although the web server starts, and is accessible at port 8888, mycode.scm is never executed. This suggests that a) may not be possible.
This is because the "--http-start" sets the _something_done flag, which supresses trying loading mycode.scm.
I suppose one approach might be to start the web server as a separate process, and then have the editor and the web server communicate through sockets, but that seems a bit troublesome.
Using a separate thread is probably enough - but you still have to make sure the communication is thread-safe and non-blocking. -- --Per Bothner per@bothner.com http://per.bothner.com/
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