[Geany-Devel] Create project files from within a plugin

[Matthew Brush]

On 2018-02-18 10:52 AM, Lars Paulsen wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> is there a API for plugins which lets a plugin create project files and 
> fill in some values?
> 
> I do NOT want to add plugin specific data to an existing project.
> 
> I want to create a new project with some meaningful data (the 
> fields/values of geany's own project data).
> After that I would add plugin specific data to it.
> 

Hi,

There is nothing in the API for this as far as I know. You could just 
write your own keyfile, and open that. If you wanted to open it 
programmatically you would have to expose a function like maybe 
`project_load_file_with_session`[0] in the plugin API.

Regards,
Matthew Brush

[0]: https://github.com/geany/geany/blob/master/src/project.c#L268