decouple from urwid? about fbed

[Twinklebear]

Thanks! I think it should be possible to decouple from urwid, but I don't have a decoupled version of it. I think to make a non-urwid version you can just take out all the use of urwid in the code, and just make sure to call man.monitor_encoding in a loop: https://github.com/Twinklebear/fbed/blob/main/fbed.py#L252. This is done by calling it every 0.5s using urwid's loop/alarm stuff, but just calling it a loop and sleeping for 0.5s should work fine as well.

[ajeema]

Awesome, that k you so much for your reply. I will give it a go! Cheers

[ajeema]

I'm relatively new to Python. Do you mean a for loop or an event loop?

[Twinklebear]

I think you could just do a for loop, with a sleep in it

[ajeema]

I've been trying and trying. First tried an asyncio loop, then a for loop. I keep getting recursion errors. Any direction you may give, when you have time, would be very. much appreciated.

[Twinklebear]

No worries! I took a look at hacking up a version without urwid that just logs the encoding status to the terminal, check it out here: https://github.com/Twinklebear/fbed/blob/no-ui/fbed.py .

[ajeema]

oh man, that is so awesome! I really appreciate you taking time out to help me! I'll take a look. Again, thank you so much!

[Twinklebear]

No problem! Let me know if you have some questions, but I'll go ahead and close this issue