Users November 2007

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[Geany] 3 bugs in geany
by Ana Conda 22 Nov '07

22 Nov '07

Hi, Thanks for this great editor! I love it, but have 3 problems with it. I have encountered 3 annoying things in geany. 1. Geany fails to save a .cpp file if there is a "€" sign in it! The error message that it gives is: "An error occurred while converting the file from UTF-8 in "ISO-8859-1". The file remains unsaved. Error message: Invalid byte sequence in conversion input" This problem vanishes if I remove the € signs from the file. 2. Not sure if this is a bug, but it IS annoying as hell.. If I open a file which I have forgot to "mark" (give me read/write rights). And I try to save my changes the saving fails (ofcourse), but what is annoying is that if I THEN give myself the read/write permissions, geany still refuses to save the changes. ie. geany doesn't check if writing is possible when saving. It seems to remember the original permissions . There are many editors which allow you to save after giving rw permissions.. 3. This probably has something to do with using files through sambamount, but if I open a file, and modify it and save the changes then after a few minutes geany will ask: "The file 'KakkospokerGfxDll.cpp' on the disk is more recent than the current buffer. Do you want to reload it?" Here geany is telling that the version that geany has just saved is newer than the version that geany orginally opened!! And if I have changed the file after saving it and accidentally select to reload the file then my new changes are lost. __________ Ana

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[Geany] Symbol list whitespace
by Harold Aling 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

Dear Devs, I use the symbol list a lot, but I don't like the whitespace on the left side, especially when using longer symbol names... An alternative is to make the symbol list take up lots of my screen estate, which isn't very pleasing... Current list: \/_* Functions ______* media_management_| ______* media_management_| ______* media_management_| ______* media_management_| ______* media_management_| <etc> What I'd like to see: Functions * media_management_create| * media_management_delete| <etc> * = icon _ = white space I generally don't use it, but clicking on 'functions' could collapse the list (and maybe toggle 'bold' as an indicator that it can be expanded?) In exchange, I'll work on the Dutch translation. ;) -H-

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[Geany] Plugin Manager and important API change
by Enrico Tröger 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

Hi all, I just added a Plugin Manager dialog which allows you as user to select which plugins should be loaded at startup. You can also load and unload plugins on the fly as needed. In this way, you can get rid of any plugins which are installed but you don't want to use. Furthermore, there is a preferences button which allows you to call a plugin's configuration dialog if it provides one. Please note, you can configure plugins only when they are already loaded (i.e. the checkbox is active). For plugin developers: - I added a new field "author" to the plugin info struct, this means you have to adjust the INFO() macro in your code and add an author string as last argument. Unless your plugin won't build anymore. Sorry. The author field is displayed in the Plugin Manager together with plugin's description. - If your plugin needs some configuration, you can add a function with the following signature: void configure(GtkWidget *parent); Geany will call this function everytime an user click on the preferences button in the Plugin Manager. Your code should create a dialog to provide some configuration options. The passed widget is a reference to the Plugin Manager dialog and should be used as parent window for your dialog. If you don't need any configuration options at all, just skip it and don't use this function(it even doesn't have to be defined or declared). configure() will always be called after your plugin's init() function was called. So it is safe to use things in configure() which are created/allocated in init(). - Take care of your code in cleanup(), you can't assume Geany is exited afterwards because it is also called when the user unloads the plugin in the Plugin Manager dialog. So, release all allocated resources, remove and destroy added widgets and generally leave Geany in the same way as at the time when init() was called. Regards, Enrico -- Get my GPG key from http://www.uvena.de/pub.key

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[Geany] GITdiff plugin, need help
by Yura Siamashka 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

Hi Inspired by Enrico plugin wishlist and svn diff plugin, I decided to write git (http://git.or.cz/) diff plugin. Plugin should works the following way: On button click (Any idea is it possible to make shortcut to plugin?): 1) If no diff output tab create *GIT-DIFF* tab and place diff there 2) If *GIT-DIFF* already exists, update it's content to latest diff and give focus to it Well it almost works, exept few things: 1) if I click GITdiff button 2 times and try to close *GIT-DIFF* geany will crash. If I comment geany_data->sci->set_text line it won't crash, Any idea what I am doing wrong? 2) How can I make tab active after I click GITdiff button? One of idea was always close previous *GIT-DIFF* and open new document. But if I try to use documents->remove with index It close tab with my program I want do make diff to instead of *GIT-DIFF* Best regards, Yura Semashko

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[Geany] Project session load
by Bo Lorentsen 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

Hi ... I have been looking into Geany, and its project handling as there were a few things i really was missed. One specific thing I missed was project session files, and that is what I have added. I know it is a good idea to ask if someone are working on a feature first, but I just ended up doing it, sorry :-) The project system now holds session files in the same way as the global session files, and when loading a new project all its files are loaded at ones and when closing a project all files are again removed. Hope this is acceptable, and please let me know if I need to do this in another way. Looking forward to using Geany for more that one project at a time. Regards /BL

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[Geany] GTK printing support
by Enrico Tröger 17 Nov '07

17 Nov '07

Hi, in SVN r2050 I added native GTK 2.10 printing support. It is available once you build Geany against GTK 2.10 or above and run it with GTK 2.10 or above. Attached is a print preview to show how it looks like for the people who can't or don't want to test it. Current limitations: - It doesn't work at all with non-monospace fonts. The current code relies on a constant character width. Maybe this will change in the future but it would be a lot of work. There are two ways to workaround this: a) detect the widest character in the used font and use it as the general character width. This would probably result in a less pretty page layout. b) get the character width for each single printed character and use it once a character is added to the page - It doesn't work well on Windows: * The page header is a filled black rectangle instead of just a frame. * The characters don't start at the same line height. * Between characters there are small grey vertical lines. I don't know exactly what is causing the problems on Windows, it is exactly the same code as on non-Windows systems. But maybe some of the problems are related to my testing. I didn't test the printing on Windows with a real printer, only with a PDF printer[1] to convert the printed page into a PDF file. If anyone wants to test it on Windows, any feedback is very welcome. On Linux and other non-Windows systems it should work fine. Additional note for Windows users: To compile the current SVN code with GTK 2.10 or above(to be exactly even with GTK 2.8 but there it doesn't matter) on Windows, you have to specify "GTK210=1" on the command line to the make command, e.g. C:\geany>make GTK210=1 This is necessary because we need to link the binary against libpangocairo and libcairo but these librariers only exist with GTK >=2.8. [1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/ Regards, Enrico -- Get my GPG key from http://www.uvena.de/pub.key

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[Geany] how to do an emacs 'Indent Line or Region'?
by Rodrigo Canellas 16 Nov '07

16 Nov '07

Hi, In 'emacs', I can select some lines of code an perform a 'Indent Line or Region', which indents the lines selected. How can I do that in 'geany'? Thanks a lot, Rodrigo

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[Geany] configure error on Fedora 8
by Vnpenguin 15 Nov '07

15 Nov '07

Hi, I'm trying to compile 0.12 under Fedora 8, but there is error : ... checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... unsupported checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3 checking how to run the C preprocessor... /lib/cpp configure: error: C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check See `config.log' for more details. error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.99037 (%build) In config.log I see: configure:3718: /lib/cpp conftest.c In file included from /usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.1.2/include/syslimits.h:7, from /usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.1.2/include/limits.h:11, from conftest.c:12: /usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.1.2/include/limits.h:122:61: error: limits.h: No such file or directory in /usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.1.2/include/limits.h, at line 122 I see: #include_next <limits.h> /* recurse down to the real one */ Maybe this is NOT Geany's error, but I'm not coder, so I know nothing about C/C++. Any help to fix that ? Thanks -- http://vnoss.org

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[Geany] VFS files
by Bo Lorentsen 14 Nov '07

14 Nov '07

Hi ... I have been using Geany a bit the last few days, and its becoming a quite useful tool. But I can't open files that is mounted in VFS :-( Are there any plans of vfs support, or am I the only one having this need ? /BL

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[Geany] Renamed construct autocompletion in Snippets
by Enrico Tröger 12 Nov '07

12 Nov '07

Hi, finally I renamed the construct auto completion feature in Snippets as discussed in [1] in SVN r2044. Beside other changes in strings and the documentation, please be aware that the configuration file for snippets is now called "snippets.conf" and "autocomplete.conf" is not longer used. For copatibility reasons, Geany will load a file autocomplete.conf from user's configuration directory if snippets.conf can't be found. But it is better to rename your autocomplete.conf to snippets.conf because we probably will remove the compatibility check in the future. Furthermore, the spelling of two configuration options has changed and so you have to set them again if you don't use the default value(i.e. the previous value of the options won't be recognized by Geany because the option name changed). The options are: Snippet completion (name in config: complete_snippets) Old names: Construct autocompletion (name in config: auto_complete_constructs) Rows of symbol completion list (name in config: symbolcompletion_max_height) Old names: Rows of autocompletionlist (name in config: autocompletion_max_height) I hope this isn't too confusing but at least for new users the feature should be clearer now. [1] http://lists.uvena.de/pipermail/geany/2007-October/002005.html Regards, Enrico -- Get my GPG key from http://www.uvena.de/pub.key

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