[dash-dev] Groovy Monkey

["James E. Ervin" <jervin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I not to long ago added a bug to Eclipse Monkey ( Bug #143077 - 
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=143077 ) that would allow 
it to support different languages for writing monkey scripts.  I also 
supplied a rudimentary solution that would allow groovy to be used in 
place of java script.

Well, since I have had some free time at work and well for lack of a 
better thing to do, I added additional language bindings.  At this time 
you can write an Eclipse Monkey script in javascript, beanshell, 
python, groovy and ruby.  Would you like to try it out and give me some 
comments? Put http://groovy-monkey.sourceforge.net/update in your 
update manager in eclipse and download what is in effect my branch of 
the current Eclipse Monkey project.

Want a look at the source code?  Just grab it from cvs anonymously at 
groovy-monkey.cvs.sourceforge.net with the repository path set to 
/cvsroot/groovy-monkey.  All the projects currently in there are 
involved with the feature.

Want to curse me out and tell me how lame what I have done is?  Well 
send me an email message, be sure to leave out anything really bad that 
will not get through the spam filter.

James E. Ervin

P.S.:  I am hoping to make two new improvements to this offering.  One, 
I think it would be very cool to be able to have an "Outline" view that 
would show which doms you have added to your script, what type the 
objects are and especially what methods they accept.  Second, I would 
like to add in running the scripts by default in an Eclipse Job so they 
can be cancelled and not tie up the UI thread unnecessarily.  I would 
propose to do this by way of a MODE: metatag, any suggestions?

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