[Geany-devel] New Feature(plugin OR geany self)

[Lex Trotman]

Hi Jacques,

It is hard to advise if a feature is appropriate for Geany core or not
when we don't know what the feature is :)

Cheers
Lex

On 29 September 2011 17:21, Jacques du Rand <jacquesdr at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Guys
> I want to implement a new feature it will have close interaction  with
> the sidebar->open_files (module ?)
>
> b) the new feature will be triggered every time a 'document-activate'
> signal is sent
> c) It will then need to update the model(treeview) in  "sidebar->open_files"
>
> Now my question is this since I then need to add fields (2) to the
> enum below and do some  other' work' on the sidebar_openfiles widget.
> It will be difficult  and 'ugly' to do it in a plugin ?
>
> It was thinking of just adding the 'feature' to geany itself with a
> config-option to turn it off and on ?
>
> I will of course do a proof of concept and then submit the diff/patch ?
>
>
>
> file:sidebar.c
> /* documents tree model columns */
> enum
> {
>        DOCUMENTS_ICON,
>        DOCUMENTS_SHORTNAME,    /* dirname for parents, basename for children */
>        DOCUMENTS_DOCUMENT,
>        DOCUMENTS_COLOR,
>        DOCUMENTS_FILENAME
>       DOCUMENTS_NEWFIELD_1  /*  just to illustrate  */
>       DOCUMENTS_NEWFIELD_2 /*  just to illustrate  */
>
> }
>
>
>
>
> Best Regards
> Jacques du Rand
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