[Geany-Users] python-jedi plugin and general configuration of Geany for python

[Matthew Brush]

On 2017-09-21 01:59 AM, sogal wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I have been using Geany for quite some years now and really happy with it.
> This times I am learning Python3 and, of course, use Geany for that purpose.
> 
> The way Geany autocomplete symbols does not completly fill my needs and I
> wanted to try geany-jedi-complete plugin [0] but install fails with the
> following output :
> 
> ###
> g++ -c src/preferences.cpp -O2 -fPIC `pkg-config --cflags geany` -std=c++0x -I./geany-complete-core/include -o lib/src/preferences.o
> In file included from /usr/include/geany/editor.h:28:0,
>                   from /usr/include/geany/document.h:32,
>                   from /usr/include/geany/build.h:27,
>                   from /usr/include/geany/geanyplugin.h:37,
>                   from ./geany-complete-core/include/geanycc/cc_plugin.hpp:23,
>                   from ./geany-complete-core/include/geanycc/geanycc.hpp:25,
>                   from src/preferences.cpp:22:
> src/preferences.cpp: In member function ‘virtual GtkWidget* geanycc::PythonCompletionFramework::create_config_widget(GtkDialog*)’:
> /usr/include/geany/gtkcompat.h:81:11: error: invalid conversion from ‘gpointer {aka void*}’ to ‘GtkWidget* {aka _GtkWidget*}’ [-fpermissive]
>         NULL)
>             ^
> /usr/include/geany/gtkcompat.h:83:3: note: in expansion of macro ‘compat_gtk_box_new’
>     compat_gtk_box_new(GTK_ORIENTATION_VERTICAL, (homogeneous), (spacing))
>     ^
> src/preferences.cpp:122:24: note: in expansion of macro ‘gtk_vbox_new’
>        GtkWidget* vbox = gtk_vbox_new(FALSE, 5);
>                          ^
> geany-complete-core/Makefile.core:39: recipe for target 'lib/src/preferences.o' failed
> make: *** [lib/src/preferences.o] Error 1
> ###
> 
> OS : GNU/Linux openSUSE Leap 42.3
> Geany : 1.29 (Gtk 3.20)
> Package geany-devel is installed as well as other plugin build-time
> dependencies.
> 
> Does anyone have an idea about how I can solve it ?
> 
> Beside that, if some other experimented Python developpers using Geany has
> any advice on how I can configure it specifically for Python I would take it
> :) (I have already set build options).
> 
> Thank you in advance.
> 

C++ doesn't allow implicit cast from void* to other pointer type, so you 
have to cast it explicitly:

     auto vbox = static_cast<GtkWidget*>(gtk_vbox_new(FALSE, 5));

Regards,
Matthew Brush