I'm wondering on how I could familiarize myself with the code more when poking around in Geany. I think a good idea is to have a link on the "Developer" page that describes some common functions that are used in the source code of geany. If not then could anybody help me in finding small tasks that I could help out with?
cheers John
On 19 October 2012 06:18, John McCrary johnmccrary1234@yahoo.com wrote:
I'm wondering on how I could familiarize myself with the code more when poking around in Geany. I think a good idea is to have a link on the "Developer" page that describes some common functions that are used in the source code of geany. If not then could anybody help me in finding small tasks that I could help out with?
Hi John,
Well, you could write a page linked to the developer page that describes some common functions that are used in the source code of Geany :-D
Seriously, its a good idea, its called design documentation, the only problems are that doing it after the fact takes time away from the development tasks and, well, no one who knows how it works wants to do it.
The other way to get more familiar with the code is to do something with it, select something from the features tracker (or your own feature, something you are interested in, since if you are like me you won't persist if you are not interested) that can be done as a plugin. Plugins use many of the Geany functions, but they are generally better documented, see http://www.geany.org/manual/reference/
Make sure you post here what you decide to do for advice and to avoid the (very unlikely) chance of someone else doing the same thing.
Cheers Lex
cheers John
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On 12-10-18 12:18 PM, John McCrary wrote:
I'm wondering on how I could familiarize myself with the code more when poking around in Geany. I think a good idea is to have a link on the "Developer" page that describes some common functions
The HACKING file is a good read, and Geany's plugin API documentation, as well as the API references for the libraries in the GTK+ stack (GTK+, GLib, GObject, etc). Also Scintilla documentation is extremely useful for when you need to change something related to the editor widget.
that are used in the source code of geany. If not then could anybody help me in finding small tasks that I could help out with?
What do you know now? Are you a C programmer? If not, what language(s) do you know? Do you know the GTK+ stack at all? This kind of info is helpful in order to offer better suggestions.
Generally though, just find an annoying bug/misfeature/missing feature and spend some time figuring out where the offending code is and how it (doesn't) work, and then figure out how to make it work.
Another good way is to write a plugin, because it will familiarize you with Geany's plugin API (which is a pretty big portion of the important functions in Geany's source) and you can read other plugins' source and Geany's to see why and how stuff is the way it is. I'd go the plugin route first if you don't currently know C/GTK+ at all yet since it's a little more gentle than landing face first into a 5000 line Geany source file :)
You should probably also subscribe to Geany's development mailing list and there's usually a few Geany and/or plugin developers hanging in the IRC channel, depending on your timezone.
Cheers, Matthew Brush