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Geany Newsletter Issue #5
by Frank Lanitz 29 May '12

29 May '12

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(a)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.htm… 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. https://github.com/codebrainz/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: Dominic Hopf Enrico Tröger Frank Lanitz Lex Trotman Matthew Brush

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Incompatible UI change, removal of actions from ctrl-click
by Lex Trotman 25 May '12

25 May '12

[posted to both devel and user lists, sorry to those on both] Hi All, Geany currently hard codes two actions to the <ctrl>-<left mouse down> input, "goto tag" if the click is over an identifier or "goto matching brace" otherwise. This blocks the standard action of "add to selection" on <ctrl>-<left click> and <ctrl>-<left drag>. (See Gnome HIG http://developer.gnome.org/hig-book/2.32/hig-book.html#input-mouse 10.1.2) I did a quick check on my system and didn't find any application that did not comply with that guideline, so Geany is the odd one out. Geany has not supported multiple selections so it hasn't been an issue (other than being non-standard and occasionally confusing users), but as there is a proposal to add support for multiple selections to Geany this non-standard behavior is now a problem. As both actions now have a default keybinding (in Git version) I propose that the binding to <ctrl>-<left mouse down> simply be removed. Cheers Lex

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Geany Plugins Build using Waf fails from current Git master
by Dominic Hopf 19 May '12

19 May '12

Hey guys, building Geany Plugins from Git fails currently fails here. The output: http://pastebin.geany.org/kota1/ This doesn't actually mean this is an issue with Geany-Plugins, I'm running the current Fedora 17 Beta state here with updates-testing enabled. ;) I was hoping someone of you could point me in the right direction where to search for the cause anyway. :) Best Regards, Dominic -- Dominic Hopf http://dominichopf.de/ Key Fingerprint: A7DF C4FC 07AE 4DDC 5CA0 BD93 AAB0 6019 CA7D 868D

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geany-plugins: Bleeding-edge compatibility
by Quentin Glidic 19 May '12

19 May '12

Hello, Two minor compatibility patches to keep-up with bleeding-edge stuff. Cheers -- Quentin "Sardem FF7" Glidic

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gtk_separator_tool_item_new() patch
by Dimitar Zhekov 12 May '12

12 May '12

Hi again, and excuse me for stuffing the list. Actually there is 1/2 error. The plugin toolbar items are inserted improperly, but added to plugin_items list in the right order. So using "Customize Toolbar" and adding/removing items or otherwise changing them fixes the order. Patch attached. Not in git format, sorry. -- E-gards: Jimmy

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plugin data / html doc directories?
by Dimitar Zhekov 06 May '12

06 May '12

Hi, In which directories should a plugin keep it's read-only data files and html documentation - <datadir|docdir>/plugins/<name>? Currently only lua uses one of those, as <datadir>/geany-plugins/geanylua, but /usr/local/share/geany/geany-plugins is inconsistent with ~/.config/geany/plugins. BTW, the description of plugin_help() refers to utils_start_browser(), but the function name is utils_open_browser(). -- E-gards: Jimmy

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[PATCH] : FIx window position on start up.
by Erik de Castro Lopo 04 May '12

04 May '12

Hi all, I often ssh from the desktop machine (screen size of 2560x1440) into my laptop (1200x800) and X-Display geany from my laptop back to the desktop. If I then place the geany window in the bottom right hand corner of the screen, exit geany and then reopen geany on the laptop, the geany window ends up off screen. The included patch checks the window position read from the preferences file, checks to see if its off either the right hand side or bottom of the screen and moves it back into a sensible position. Cheers, Erik -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/

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Rewrite reflow
by Eugene Arshinov 01 May '12

01 May '12

Hi all. A couple of weeks ago in Geany mailing list a discussion was raised about reimplementing "Reflow paragraph" command more correctly and consistently with "Line breaking". Here is a link: [1] Finally I got to it and created pull request #35 [2]. As always, suggestions are welcome. [1]: <http://lists.uvena.de/geany/2012-March/007960.html> [2]: <https://github.com/geany/geany/pull/35> -- Best regards, Eugene.

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GeniusPaste, new plugin
by Enrico 30 Apr '12

30 Apr '12

Hi all, I'm writing a new plugin that allows to paste the code from Geany on a pastebin selected by the user. At the moment It supports five different pastebins, including the Geany's one at http://pastebin.geany.org/ The plugin also redirects the user to the pasted code opening a new browser tab. The sources can be found here: https://github.com/Enrix835/GeniusPaste All feedback is welcome :) If you consider this plugin interesting enough, I'd like to know what should I do to make it part of the Geany-Plugins project. Thank you. Regards, Enrico

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plugin_add_toolbar_item() was my mistake
by Dimitar Zhekov 29 Apr '12

29 Apr '12

Hi, Actually, plugin_add_toolbar_item() works properly. Now, if there isn't enough space, the first item(s?) are placed in the drop-down toolbar menu, instead of the last. But that's probably a gtk+ thing. -- E-gards: Jimmy

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