[Geany-devel] Adding some Glade widgets

[Matthew Brush]

On 01/09/2012 08:21 AM, Nick Treleaven wrote:
> On 09/01/2012 00:56, Matthew Brush wrote:
>> - GeanyWrapLabel - Nice little existing GtkWidget that fixes broken
>> GtkLabel text wrapping in GTK+ 2. Should work fine in a glade catalog
>> and should even fix wrapping of labels in Glade.
>
> This would be really nice to have, I hate having to create wrapping
> labels manually whilst the other nearby labels can be done in Glade.
>
>> - GeanyObject, others?
>
> Why would we need GeanyObject from Glade? It's a singleton.
>

Sorry, I should've put a ? after GeanyObject, not to imply it's 
necessarily a candidate, but rather to ask about it.

>> - GeanyScintilla - Subclass of ScintillaObject, all functions in
>> sciwrappers moved to methods of this class. In future, could be combined
>
> There was a GtkScintilla project IIRC that did this, but I don't think
> it's maintained now.
>

Yeah, the developer of that (me), was ambitious and tried to wrap the 
whole massive Scintilla API, but for Geany I was thinking of just 
wrapping those parts we actually need/use (ex. what's in sciwrappers).

>> with GeanyEditor since both are somewhat redundant.
>
> I think keeping the separation of scintilla utils and editor functions
> is a good idea (e.g. derive GeanyScintilla from a GtkScintilla class).
>

My thinking was they're both serve the same purpose, so having two 
separate "objects"/files with some functions in one part and some 
functions in another part seems a bit redundant/overlappy. For example, 
when I'm writing a plugin and need a function related to the editor 
widget, I first have to check editor.h and then check sciwrappers.h 
(then Scintilla docs if it's not found in Geany proper).

> Anyway, that would be extremely disruptive to the plugin API.
>

Very true.

Cheers,
Matthew Brush