[Geany-Devel] Plugin development questions

Thomas Martitz thomas.martitz at xxxxx
Mon Oct 7 19:53:25 UTC 2013


Am 07.10.2013 12:27, schrieb v01d:
> Hi,
> I'm writing a simple plugin for geany (which I will call LiveDiff)
> which allows for having
> indicators inside the editor for changed/added/modified lines, which
> is updated as you type. The base for comparing
> the buffer can be either the version of the file on disk or (which I
> will soon attempt to add) the latest version from the git repository,
> if the file is versioned so.
> This resembles what netbeans does (one something I really liked). So
> far it works OK but there are some quirks.
> I'm doing this out of spare time so dont expect a pretty serious
> commitement to it. I will however make it available on github.
>
> I wanted to ask regarding the ScitillaObject handling. Currently my
> plugin needs to define RGBA markers (which are used to indicate the
> diff results per-line).
> What it is not really clear to me is that there appears to be one
> ScintillaObject associated with each GeanyDocument. However, some
> messages sent to the ScintillaObject (like changing the margin or
> defining markers) appear to be global across all instances (unless I'm
> mistaken). Is this so? What would be the proper handling? Is it ok to
> repeat the definition of the markers for each editor?
>
> Moreover, I'm not sure how to handle correctly the size of the RGBA
> markers since it depends on the font size of the editor. I tried to
> set the marker scale using the text_height to image height ratio, but
> the marker still appears to be a bit taller than the line and this
> creates some visual artifacts.
>

Hello,

[1] might be of interest for you. It does something very similar.

Regarding your other question, are you talking about the "editor-notify" 
signal? Yes, that's not really per-document, I came across this 
recently. The solution is to connect to "sci-notify" of ScintillaObject 
directly, this will give a proper per-document signal (the 
document-specific ScintillaObject pointer). However you need to get the 
GeanyDocument pointer elsewhere. See how I did it here[2].

Some might consider this as a defect in Geany.

[1]: http://lists.geany.org/pipermail/devel/2010-June/002584.html
[2]: 
https://github.com/kugel-/geany-plugins/commit/7f19c3035abf6f8a7fa66c7b4c1efe0851cb2f83

Best regards.


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