try to create a simple language plugin
Fabian Schmitthenner
fabian1024 at googlemail.com
Tue Feb 2 16:45:52 UTC 2010
Hi,
I tried to create a simple language plugin to test and try to learn how this
works in KDevelop 4. What I did is roughly the following:
- extending my own class from ILanguageSupport and IPlugin, and making it
accessible through KDevelop due to a .desktop-file.
- add a class which extends from ParseJob and which is constructed in the
createParseJob-method.
So far, so good. After a bit of experimenting, the language is now loaded in
KDevelop, when I load the first file with my extension. Then, a parse job is
created and the run method is called.
But when I open the same file a second time, or when I simply change the file by
editing it, nothing happens (so neither a parse job is created nor the run
method is called).
Also, after having opened a file, which was alredy loaded in a previous
instance of KDevelop, no parse job is created, and the file cannot be edited
(it seems to be read-only).
So, my question is, what do I do wrong? Do I have to say anything to the
DuChain or an other instance, when I parse the file; and this parsing required
for other things like code completion? I always thought, the DuCHain is "only"
for serializing definitions and uses; so it wouldn't be a must-have ??
Second question: How can I enable code completion? I tried to extend a class
from KTextEditor::CodeCompletionModel2, and construct an instance of
KDevelop::CodeCompletion in the constructor of my language support, as I saw
it in the Css-language-plugin. But the
CodeCompletionModel2::completionInvoked-method is also never called.
Also, is there any good documentation about this stuff, because I didn't really
find anything useful.
I hope you can help me.
Kind regards
Fabian
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