[Geany-Devel] Problem with pointer from API function -- solved

[Lex Trotman]

On Tue, 27 Aug 2019 at 16:00, Austin Green <austin.green at orcon.net.nz> wrote:
>
> Hi Lex,
>
> On Tue, 27 Aug 2019 14:39:52 +1000
> Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 27 Aug 2019 at 14:29, Austin Green <austin.green at orcon.net.nz> wrote:
> > ...
> > > As well as adding the GEANY_API_SYMBOL macro to the function definition, the function declaration in keybindings.h also needs to be moved from the
> > >         #ifdef GEANY_PRIVATE
> > > section, into the 'public' section.  Dereffing the returned pointer then works fine.
> > >
> > > I expect this is documented somewhere, though I haven't found it.
> >
> > Its not documented because its private, its not for plugin use.
> > Things are not just randomly added to the plugin API, because then its
> > fixed and can't be changed inside Geany.
>
> Presumably it _could_ be added to the API, but only by the Geany maintainers?  Who would need to have a good use case made for it.
>

A fair interpretation, yeah.  Luckily you found you didn't need it anyway :)

Cheers
Lex

> Cheers,
> Austin.
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