[Geany] Enabling save after no changes

[Enrico Tröger]

On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:13:30 -0500 (EST), Greg Smith
<gsmith at gregsmith.com> wrote:

>On Sun, 25 Jan 2009, Yura Siamashka wrote:
>
>> I think this behaviour can be implemented in plugin. Hook open/save
>> and set changed flag for each document.
>
>I just tried that:

Be patient, I'm going to implement this in Geany.


>static void on_document_open(GObject *obj, GeanyDocument *doc,
>gpointer user_data)
>{
>     if (doc != NULL)
>         doc->changed=TRUE;
>}
>
>Two problems:
>
>-When you go to close the document afterwards, it always says "The
>file 'X' is not saved" which isn't quite true.  At least that confirms
>the above is being called, so I know my plug-in is working.

At this point you noticed that this way of changing it, is just a
hack :).


>-Even though I've got that evidence the changed flag is being toggled,
>the menu structure doesn't seem to change.  Save and Save All are
>still disabled.

The menu and toolbar items won't change when changing the 'changed'
flag but when document_set_text_changed() is called which itself sets
the 'changed' flag.


>I'm not sure if those two discoveries mean that a plug-in based
>solution can't work for what I want here, or if I just need to make a
>much better one.

At least not as clean as it will be in the core.


>P.S. If someone feels like improving the "Plugin Signals" section of
>the documentation with a trivial edit, it would have made things
>easier if the sample on_document_open code snippet there included this
>addition:
>
>   #include "document.h"
>
>That's not already included in demoplugin.c, I had to add that in
>order to access the GeanyDocument structure.  The compiler error you

Thanks for the pointer, will fix this later.


Regards,
Enrico

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