RE: [femm] features

[Keith Gregory <k.gregory@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Robin,

> Isn`t lua great !

Yes, could have been made for the job!


> >I can't find any way of pushing a filename onto the stack from inside a
> >pre-processor script and popping it off in a post-processor script, has
> >anyone managed this?
>
> No you can't with the existing version as the pre and post processor use
> different instances of lua, so they are seperate.
> my development version allows you to pass variables over the command line in
> the form varname=variable eg filename=bitmap04.bmp, then this is added to
> the global variable scope of the post processor script.

Sounds ideal to me.


> >It may be useful to be able to input data from the keyboard to a
> >pre-processor script while it is running, say via a little dialogue box.
>
> A good idea.

Could the LUA print and read() commands be used? It would require a window 
to write to though.

> .... so a manual refresh seems the ideal.

I agree.


> >And finally...
>
> >Would it be out of the question with the save_bitmap command to save a
> >section of the window rather than all of it?
>
> Ahead of you there, I have been experimenting with it, I can get it done but
> I am trying to do things in a way that minimises any changes to the main
> femm and femmview code.

Great minds!

Keith.