Emulator Source Load and Save

[BarryMead]

(11-25-2015 06:13 PM)Marcus von Cube Wrote:  If we just want to call Neil's Perl based tools from the emulator. We'll need a couple of configuration options to achieve this. (Where is Perl installed? Where are the tools? etc.) And we have to add menu options and dialogues to the emulator. Since "my environment" is the classic emulator (the only one I can modify and compile myself) it's just too much work to enhance the GUI to support it. I'm not a GUI guy, I'm afraid.

The Windows exe files are already provided, and Linux or Mac users could install the Perl Packager (On Linux systems this command does it: sudo apt-get install libpar-packer-perl). Using this perl packager program "pp" one could compile native binary executable versions of: wp34s_asm.pl, wp34s_conv.pl, wp34s_lib.pl, and wp34s_pp.pl.
Compiling these perl scripts into native binary executables is easy once the Perl Packager is installed (pp -o wp34s_asm wp34s_asm.pl ... etc.). As long as they are installed where the PATH environment variable can find them, then the calling of these primitives would be identical across the various platforms from the Qt Emulator's point of view.

system("wp34s_lib sourcefile.wp34s -ilib wp34s.dat -f -state");

for example.

Any thoughts?