Any Possible Way To Create/Emulate a TCSH Shell Inside A WxPython Window?

wxPython Users
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Is there any way to create a tcsh shell, or to emulate a tcsh shell
inside a wxpython window?

I have created an app for browsing our file system, but all our users
are very use to using their tcsh shells. A combination of both would
be a great solution. The things that tcsh has that are most important
are the users aliases, tab completion of directories, and tab
completion of commands.

What is my best solution?

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Hi,

Is there any way to create a tcsh shell, or to emulate a tcsh shell
inside a wxpython window?

I have created an app for browsing our file system, but all our users
are very use to using their tcsh shells. A combination of both would
be a great solution. The things that tcsh has that are most important
are the users aliases, tab completion of directories, and tab
completion of commands.

What is my best solution?

There is no builtin support for this. You would need either a custom
control or a way to get and embed a terminal window in your app.

I did start writing a wx control for a terminal emulator some time
back and it worked reasonably well on OSX/Linux and slightly less so
on Windows due to some platform limitations. I have been busy with
other things so haven't had time to go back and work on it in over a
year now so some bit rot may apply.

I would categorize it as a proof of concept at best but feel free to
try it out and improve it
(Google Code Archive - Long-term storage for Google Code Project Hosting.),
Just download terminal.py and run it to see the test application.

Cody

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On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 12:25 PM, yancy.lindquist@dreamworks.com <yancy.lindquist@dreamworks.com> wrote:

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Cody Precord wrote:

I have created an app for browsing our file system, but all our users
are very use to using their tcsh shells. A combination of both would
be a great solution. The things that tcsh has that are most important
are the users aliases, tab completion of directories, and tab
completion of commands.

What is my best solution?

ipython may be worth a shot -- it gives you some of this, and maybe you can customize it to do exactly what you want. Recent versions can be embedded in wx.

-Chris

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