Re: [ros-general] writing file manager / how to use lex?

[Jasper van de Gronde]

Reply in the message below.

Jan Tisje wrote:
>   there are BNFs available for URL, but 
>  BNF is no standard, so syntax is odd (to me) 
>  lex does not expect BNF but it's own format. 
>  
>  URI, BNF in appendix A
>  http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2396.html
>  URL, BNF in chapter 5
>  http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1738.html 
Their BNF-like syntax is explained in RFC 822 (although they seem to use 
pipes instead of slashes for alternatives):
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc822.html

>   btw, the filemanager will use plugins to view the file
> contents. 
>  **** Who wants to write some plugin DLLs? ****
>  they may be written in C, interface will be strictly WinAPI standard. 
>  
>  There will be two types of DLLs
>  - those that render to a windows device context (or bitmap, I do not
>  know yet)
>  - and those that convert a file to a HTML representation.  
Also think of audio/video please (perhaps not immediately, but be sure 
to keep it in the back of your head).