[geany/newsletter] 40a316: Adding txt-version
Frank Lanitz
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Mon May 28 09:13:13 UTC 2012
Branch: refs/heads/master
Author: Frank Lanitz <frank at frank.uvena.de>
Committer: Frank Lanitz <frank at frank.uvena.de>
Date: Mon, 28 May 2012 09:13:13
Commit: 40a3168e07569137b2da550ac617628608b4b58d
https://github.com/geany/newsletter/commit/40a3168e07569137b2da550ac617628608b4b58d
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Adding txt-version
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+Geany Newsletter #5
+-------------------
+
+1 About Geany
+2 New translations and updates
+3 Wiki available
+4 C++ plugins supported
+5 Plugins
+5.1 New Plugins
+5.1.1 GeanyPyflakes
+5.1.2 GeniusPaste
+5.2 GeanyPG
+6 Geany local
+7 Geany Packages for Fedora
+8 About this newsletter
+
+
+1 About Geany
+=============
+
+Geany is a small and lightweight Integrated Development Environment.
+It was developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only a
+few dependencies from other packages. Another goal was to be as
+independent as possible from a special Desktop Environment like KDE
+or GNOME - Geany only requires the GTK2 runtime libraries.
+
+More information about Geany can be found at
+`geany.org <http://www.geany.org/>`_.
+
+
+
+2 New translations and updates
+==============================
+
+Since our last newsletter a number of translations has been updated
+or newly added to Geany. New translations are:
+
+* Arabian
+* Indonesian
+* Lithuanian
+* Mongolian (back in 2011)
+
+But also translations like German, Kazakh, Hungarian, Italian,
+Traditional Chinese and Swedish translations have been updated
+during the last roughly four month.
+
+
+3 Wiki available
+================
+
+We set up a wiki for additional documentation and resources related
+to Geany at http://wiki.geany.org. Anyone can contribute to the wiki
+simply by registering and then logging in.
+
+In the wiki you can find configuration snippets and tips, snippets for
+various programming languages and many additional tags files to enhance
+Geany's autocompletion features.
+
+Everybody is welcome to add additional useful content to the wiki.
+
+
+4 C++ plugins supported
+=======================
+
+Geany's public plugin API headers have been updated to support
+inclusion into C++ code. Most of the changes involve adding `extern
+"C" {...}` blocks around the public headers' code (by way of GLIB's
+`G_BEGIN_DECLS` and `G_END_DECLS` macros) to make them easier to
+include, so the C++ code doesn't need to do this.
+
+You can now write plugins in C++ and they will be loadable by Geany
+at run-time. Of course using Geany's API will still involve using C
+in your code, but the rest of your plugin can use whatever C++
+features you want. You can even use gtkmm [1] in your plugin if you
+want.
+
+Any of the symbols Geany looks up at run-time must not have their
+names mangled by the compiler. To avoid this, put that code inside
+an `extern "C"` block.
+
+Here's an example of Geany's Hello World plugin from the Plugin
+HowTo [2] ported to C++::
+
+ #include <geanyplugin.h>
+
+ class HelloWorld
+ {
+ private:
+ gchar *hello_message;
+ GtkWidget *main_menu_item;
+
+ public:
+ HelloWorld(const gchar *message);
+ ~HelloWorld();
+ void SayHelloWorld();
+ };
+
+ static HelloWorld *hello;
+
+ extern "C"
+ {
+ GeanyPlugin *geany_plugin;
+ GeanyData *geany_data;
+ GeanyFunctions *geany_functions;
+
+ PLUGIN_VERSION_CHECK(211)
+ PLUGIN_SET_INFO("HelloWorld C++",
+ "Just another tool to say hello world, this time in C++",
+ "1.0", "John Doe <john.doe at example.org>");
+
+ void plugin_init(GeanyData *data)
+ {
+ hello = new HelloWorld("Hello C++ World");
+ }
+
+ void plugin_cleanup(void)
+ {
+ delete hello;
+ }
+
+ static void on_menu_item_clicked(GtkMenuItem *item, gpointer user_data)
+ {
+ hello->SayHelloWorld();
+ }
+ }
+
+ HelloWorld::HelloWorld(const gchar *message)
+ {
+ hello_message = g_strdup(message);
+ main_menu_item = gtk_menu_item_new_with_mnemonic("Hello World");
+ gtk_widget_show(main_menu_item);
+ gtk_container_add(GTK_CONTAINER(geany->main_widgets->tools_menu), main_menu_item);
+ g_signal_connect(main_menu_item, "activate", G_CALLBACK(on_menu_item_clicked), NULL);
+ }
+
+ HelloWorld::~HelloWorld()
+ {
+ g_free(hello_message);
+ gtk_widget_destroy(main_menu_item);
+ }
+
+ void HelloWorld::SayHelloWorld()
+ {
+ dialogs_show_msgbox(GTK_MESSAGE_INFO, "%s", hello_message);
+ }
+
+It's important to note that the dynamic library loading mechanism
+that loads plugins is C functionality and does not know about C++
+constructors. This means that global and static objects in the
+plugin will *not* have their constructors called when the plugin is
+loaded. Use dynamically created objects as show in the above example.
+
+These changes will be available in the next Geany release but you
+can start using them right away in your C++ plugins if you Build
+Geany From Git [3].
+
+1. http://developer.gnome.org/gtkmm-tutorial/2.24/sec-basics-gobj-and-wrap.html.en
+2. http://www.geany.org/manual/reference/howto.html
+3. http://www.geany.org/Download/Git
+
+
+5 Plugins
+=========
+
+Notes from the plugin section.
+
+
+5.1 New Plugins
+***************
+
+5.1.1 GeanyPyflakes
+###################
+
+Pyflakes is a command line tool that statically analyzes python
+program and detects two kinds of errors: unused imports and
+undefined symbols. geany-pyflakes runs pyflakes in the background
+and parses its output. Afterwards puts markers on lines with errors
+and adds the output to the panel at the bottom of editor (the one
+with console, todo, etc.). Geany-pyflakes is available at its project
+pages at http://code.google.com/p/geany-pyflakes/
+
+Another way to check your Python code is described inside the wiki at
+http://wiki.geany.org/howtos/check_python_code
+
+
+5.1.2 GeniusPaste
+#################
+
+GeniusPaste is a plugin which is adding the possibility to paste
+your code from Geany into different pastebins. It supports this
+services:
+
+ * codepad.org
+ * pastebin.com
+ * pastebin.geany.org
+ * dpaste.de
+ * sprunge.us
+
+During the paste process GeniusPaste detects automatically the
+syntax of your code and paste it with syntax highlighting enabled.
+Once this is done it is also able to redirect you to the pasted code
+opening a new browser tab.
+
+
+5.2 GeanyPG
+***********
+
+GeanyPG is a plugin that allows the user to encrypt, decrypt text
+and verify signatures with GnuPG from inside Geany. It's created by
+Hans Alves and is part of the geany-plugins project.
+
+After the plugin has been installed successfully, it can be loaded
+from inside Geany's plugin manager which will add a new menu item
+into the Tools menu offering functions of the plugin.
+
+To decrypt or encrypt, just select the interesting parts and choose
+the function you wish -- If none text has been selected, the whole
+document will be processed. In case you like to verify a signature
+obviously you will have to select the whole block.
+
+When encrypting a message you can choose to sign at the same time.
+If a passphrase is needed, the GPGME library will decide how the
+user is prompted. Usually this will use gpg-agent. If gpg-agent is
+disabled, pinentry with one of its frontends will be used.
+
+
+6 Geany local
+=============
+
+6.1 Geany at Chemnitzer Linuxtage 2012 (March 17th, 18th)
+*********************************************************
+
+As last year, Geany had a booth a Chemnitzer Linuxtage 2012 in
+German city Chemnitz. Our booth was again located next to the guys
+of Xfce as well as next (that was different to last year) to 2
+lecture rooms. Even though the event wasn't as much crowded as last
+year, a lot of people were passing by asking some question or just
+saying hello. So Enrico and Frank had a lot of questions to answer
+and a lot of feedback to respond to.
+
+
+
+7 Geany Packages for Fedora
+===========================
+
+There are new packages unofficially available for Fedora. One is
+containing the Geany Themes Matthew maintains at GitHub [1], the
+other one provides the tags files listed in the Geany Wiki [2]. The
+packages are not yet in Fedoras official repositories but available
+at Dominic's Fedora People space [3]. Note the geany-themes package
+is intended to work with current Git versions of Geany only. A
+x86_64 package from the current Git master as well as an SRPM for
+rebuilding is also available at [3].
+
+The geany-tags package is split into subpackages containing the tags
+for each programming language. Currently these are: geany-tags-c,
+geany-tags-php and geany-tags-python. They can be installed
+independently from each other, of course.
+
+Contact Dominic if you have suggestions for improvements.
+
+1. http://codebrainz.github.com/geany-themes/
+2. http://wiki.geany.org/tags/start
+3. http://dmaphy.fedorapeople.org/
+
+
+8 About this newsletter
+=======================
+
+This newsletter has been created in cooperation by people from Geany's
+international community. Contributors to this newsletter and the
+infrastructure behind it, ordered by alphabet:
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