[Gambas-devel] Add-ins

[John Leake]

Hi Tobi,
Thank you for your response.

By "add-in" I mean an IDE toolbar that can load/remove modules when the
IDE starts. This code would have a reference to the whole project (or a
group of projects) source tree and would allow iteration of
sub/func/class/module names and their contents. As an example the kind
of productivity functions I implemented for M$ VB6 were;

Syslog - When clicked this automatically inserted/removed syslog code
into either the currently displayed sub/function/class/module or all
sub/func/class/mods of the source file open in the editor.

Copyright - This inserted/removed customisable comments at the head of
the current source file.

ErrorTrap - As syslog but error trap code using FINALLY and CATCH.

CallChart - As above but call chart code with graphvis output.

I would not envisage the functions of the "add-in" code to be part of
the source tree but the interface that facilitated "add-ins" would have
to be.

Best regards,

John Leake



On 05/09/14 10:02, Tobias Boege wrote:
> On Thu, 04 Sep 2014, John Leake wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Background
>> ----------
>> I have been a self-employed software engineer for more than 30-years and
>> it is now time to give something back to the open-source community.
>>
> 
> Very nice!
> 
>>
>> I have written in several languages over the years but mainly C, VB (M$
>> vb2 through to vb6) and Ruby.
>>
>> Relevance
>> ---------
>> My vb work extended into custom controls and add-ins that enhanced the
>> IDE with single-click insertion/removal of syslog call templates,
>> copyright notices and software version control history.
>>
>> Does the IDE support Add-Ins ?
>> If not which are the relevant source modules ?
>>
> 
> Do you use "add-in" in the sense that you want to augment the official IDE
> source code, and _not_ provide an (un)loadable, optional module ("add-on")
> which may or may not be contained in the source tree?
> 
> I'm no expert of the IDE (I haven't fully explored the GUI yet after six
> years with Gambas) but I don't think there are designated interfaces for
> either interpretation. (With some advanced Gambas+OOP knowledge it should
> be possible to implement a framework for the latter, though.)
> 
> However, with near zero idea about the IDE, I wrote the Patch dialogs you
> can find in there today (menu Project -> Patch). It was (nearly) as easy
> as writing the code[*] and dropping it into a separate folder in the source
> code.
> 
> [*] This involved searching and reading _quite some_ code of the IDE itself
>     (which is the thing with add-ins), of course, but it's still pretty
>     straight-forward once you're into it a little.
> 
> First you need to clone the Gambas sources [0], then the IDE sources are at
> app/src/gambas3.
> 
> Regards,
> Tobi
> 
> [0] http://gambaswiki.org/wiki/howto/svn
>