Hello all,
I' ve been shopping around for tools for my C or Python projects....after trying just editors...editors on steroids, of full-features IDE...
I believe I will settle on Geany..for sensible reasons:
lightweight, handle my C and my Python equally well, and with just the right amount of complexity for casual projects
et for silly reasons:
it's the only IDE I was able to achieve a complete dark look on Windows (dark ui, dark editor, except for that pesky folding bar)...and that look is perfectly consistent on both platforms I use: Windows and Linux...
However here and here, I find myself opening Netbeans...because the symbol resolution there is just amazing...
you see the symbols of the current document you are using, but also the symbols of the whole project in a separate windows...
the call graph windows there is just great as well...Geany at this Find Usage that is helpful....but the Netbeans solution is really inspiring...really great to understand foreign code...
So that's what I'm after: a project wide symbol resolution, (where a call would a symbol as well), an overhauled find usage...and auto completion on every useful text inputed (not only tags)
If it's in development or it passed through me and is there already, stop me right here....and maybe I can help...
Since I' m not an accomplished C programmer yet...I started thinking in Python :D (loving it)...
After a few minutes, I had this basic piece of software, you give it a folder, and it will look for .c .h files there...call a ctgas prog on it (Exuberant ctags)...and there you have a basic list of all symbols through your project...The rest of the plan would have been to write a little gui containing that information...and when a symbol is pressed, it would use that nifty feature: launching geany the line number parameter...geany +linenumber foo.c ...if the doc is opened it's just go at this line, perfect...if it's not, it opens it, perfect also...
That was the basic plan...I woudl build from there....
Then I've contemplated the idea of actually using the plugin architecture of Geany...
On the same line, as the previous plan...the plugin could listen on a socket for infos sent by the python add-ons....I could this way send more info than just a line number....i could send the whole symbol list or other stuff and integrating it to geany...
That seems a bit redundant though...geany is doing the symbol resolution internally, why do it again?
So wrote a few lines, and i have my plugin which is opening a tab in the side bar..hurray :D
I need content now...
I can use a 3rd party python program to feed me content...the advantages I see are that it would be useful outsode Geany as well...just a code explorator, ...somehow
or I can use Geany internals...and that's where i need some help....it 's always to stick your nose right off the bat in a source code...
if somebody could put me on the rails...I know how the retrieve cuurent document name...but I love some some pointer on how to retrieve the symbol list...and how it's used very basically...
Fell free to correct me, or show me the light in any way :D I am kind of new to all this..
jimmy