[Edu-sig] xturtleDemo hack to mark current executing line

[Jurgis Pralgauskis]

Hello,

I made a small trick,
inspired by rur-ple "Code and Learn" environment
see methods my_trace and set_line_number (left the names same as in
rur-ple cpu.py)

I don't know TkInter, so I just put *** in front of the current line
there are a few issues I don't know how to resolve:
 *  if the line is outside the textbox, it isn't seen,
    as the text is each time rewritten to textbox (there should be
some scroll to line function, I hope)
 *  I'd like to have step (inside of the loaded module)
functionallity (as in rur-ple),
    but it is still magic for me...

you can find the modified file
http://files.akl.lt/users/jurgis/python/xturtle-hacks/

and I paste the essence here for archiving purposes:

   def my_trace(self, frame, event, arg):
 #same called in rur-ple cpu.py
       if event == "line":

           if self.code_src == "file" and self.module.__name__ in
str(frame.f_code):
               time.sleep(0.5)

               self.set_line_number(frame.f_lineno)

               # print "my_trace: event, frame:",  event,
inspect.getframeinfo(frame)

       return self.my_trace



   def set_line_number(self, lineno): # could be called highlight_line
       lines = map(lambda x: "    "+x, self.code.split("\n") )
       lineno = lineno - 1 # the real one :)
       lines[lineno] = "*** " + lines[lineno][4:]
       self.text.delete("1.0", "end")
       self.text.insert("1.0", "\n".join(lines) )

# in start_demo(...)
           sys.settrace(self.my_trace)


           result = self.module.main()
           sys.settrace(None)  # this should be also called in StopIt


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