[Geany] Plugin API

[blackdog]

Something I'm not sure of is 

filetypes[GEANY_FILETYPES_FORTRAN]->lang = 18;

where is the lang # defined? It doesn't match with GEANY_FILETYPES_ id
or the FILETYPE enumeration.

Thanks

bd

On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:25:51 -0400
blackdog <blackdog at ipowerhouse.com> wrote:

> 
> Hi Nick 
> 
> > Thanks, although we have to make sure it stays that way ;-)
> > 
> 
> yes all this talk of VMs is scary :), that's why I'm excited about the
> plugin system - and why i knew my old patches wouldn't be accepted. 
> 
> > Perhaps you're doing something special to lookup the code
> > completion, but to do it efficiently you would generate a tags file
> > for haXe, put it in ~/.geany/tags and Geany would use it when
> > editing haXe files. Of course, that would require haXe filetype
> > support,
> 
> haxe is a  bit funny as it uses type inference so it's difficult to
> infer lookups without running the full compiler, so the compiler has
> has an option to produce all type and variable info at a
> particular character in the source file, i.e. . or (, without
> producing code. Luckily the compiler is very fast. So that's why I
> need external processes. This is the standard way of doing this stuff
> in haXe (http://blog.haxe.org/entry/7)
> 
> I have haxe file support, which I'm patching from my old sources to
> the latest CVS. I'll send some patches later for all the basics,
> including symbol parser. Any funky bloated VM stuff :) will go into
> the plugin which will be released in a week or so if all continues to
> go well.
> 
> 
> Thanks for the info
> 
> bd
> 
>  Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:03:05 +0100
> Nick Treleaven <nick.treleaven at btinternet.com> wrote:
> 
> > On 07/25/2007 04:04:19 PM, blackdog wrote:
> > > The addition of the plugin system allows me to write
> > > something significant without stepping on toes which I wasn't able
> > > to do before. I'm doing a Neko VM plugin for geany (Neko is the
> > > haxe VM, see http://www.nekovm.org). This allows the creation of
> > > geany plugins in
> > > haXe using my hxGtk library. Anyway that's a work in progress,
> > > right now I'm wondering if anyone is working on the the plugin
> > > API in the following areas:
> > > 
> > > 1. get currently selected class, variable etc from the Symbol
> > > tree.
> > 
> > I think you can access document::tag_store, but perhaps that's not  
> > enough information, if you want to check that the selected item is
> > e.g. a class. It might need a patch for Geany to do it neatly. The
> > symbol list GtkTreeStore now has a (hidden) line number column, but
> > this could be replaced with a TMTag pointer, so you can tell what
> > the tag type is as well as the line number.
> > 
> > > 2. keyboard short cuts for plugins.
> > 
> > I've thought a bit about that, but not started on it yet.
> > 
> > > 3. process management, one of the issues i had in my old geany
> > > code was I had to fire off my own processes for the haXe code
> > > completion,
> > 
> > Perhaps you're doing something special to lookup the code
> > completion, but to do it efficiently you would generate a tags file
> > for haXe, put it in ~/.geany/tags and Geany would use it when
> > editing haXe files. Of course, that would require haXe filetype
> > support, which may be some work unless it is similar enough to
> > JavaScript to use that lexer and parser.
> > 
> > > it would be good if there was a standard way of executing
> > > a
> > > an external process and getting the result in a friendlier way for
> > > toolwriters rather than g_spawn_async_with_pipes
> > > 
> > Perhaps we can refactor a function to do this - you could look at
> > the code for the 'Send selection to' command.
> > 
> > > Just want to say it's a great project and I find the small
> > > footprint and
> > > speed extremely refreshing, I was using JEdit prior to Geany and
> > > really got ticked off with 60MB RAM consumption.
> > > 
> > Thanks, although we have to make sure it stays that way ;-)
> > 
> > BTW the plugin system API is getting written as people need it,  
> > generally by whoever needs it extended; patches welcome. As long
> > as it's a common function, it will probably get added. I don't see
> > it being very powerful, as Geany has to remain lightweight.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Nick
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> 
> 


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