Subclassing ui for TortoiseHg (was: Re: [PATCH 0 of 3] Progress indicator)

[Thomas Arendsen Hein]

* TK Soh <teekaysoh at gmail.com> [20070724 03:18]:
> I've earlier attempted to subclass ui, mainly as a mean to capture
> Mercurial's output and feed them into a log window, but ran into
> problems.
> 
> BTW, one problem I noticed is that 'repo = hg.repository()' would
> still call for the stocked ui class, ignoring the ui subclass object
> that was passed into the function. The only workaround I can find is
> to manually override repo.ui with my ui subclass again, making things
> a little too messy for my taste. I can't explain everything so well
> here. Hopefully it's clear enough for the gurus.

You can probably do something like

from mercurial import ui

class myui(ui.ui):
    ...

ui.ui = myui

Thomas

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