a good documentation for plugin development

[Milian Wolff]

Hey,

please keep this discussion on our mailing list.

On Friday 12 June 2015 08:55:33 Davood Ansari wrote:
> Hi MIlan
> 
> I assume I will still give it a try. Yesterday I was able to compile
> some of the older versions of the plugins found via the kdevelop page.
> 
> I work at Mathworks and they allow us to use our tools of choice!
> I would like to continue using kdevelop but I need to add some features
> and the first thing I need is some thing with similar functionality to grep
> (invoked by Ctrl+Alt+F in kdevelop).
> Can you direct me to a simplest plugin/repository which would be not to
> touch to compiler and install on my debian 7
> system given that I am on
> 
> Qt: 4.8.2
> KDE Development Platform: 4.8.4 (4.8.4)
> KDevelop: 4.3.1

That version of KDevelop is extremely old and has many bugs and misses a lot 
of features and improvements done over the last couple of years. You should 
really update. What functionality similar to grep do you want to add? Just an 
extension to our search&replace plugin - could you maybe extend that instead? 
Also make sure to test the latest version, maybe it has what you are looking 
for?

Also note that we all concentrate on the KF5 version of KDevelop now, and I 
think it would be a good idea for you to do the same if you want to develop 
new features.

Bye

> On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 7:34 AM, Milian Wolff <mail at milianw.de> wrote:
> > Hey Davood!
> > 
> > On Thursday 11 June 2015 14:43:30 Davood Ansari wrote:
> > > Dear all
> > > 
> > > I am a long time user of kdevelop.
> > > 
> > > I am up to the challenge to integrate new features in kdevelop that are
> > > already
> > > scripted in emacs. I was looking for a simple and working
> > > example/documentation to begin with.
> > 
> > I'm afraid we don't have really good tutorials on writing plugins - it's
> > been
> > mentioned many times but noone ever sat down and actually wrote something
> > sensible. Instead, we have to refer to existing plugins, some of which are
> > thankfully relatively simple to understand and can be used for guidance in
> > writing a new plugin.
> > 
> > Also, please feel free to ask any questions here on the list, or in
> > #kdevelop
> > on IRC. We will help you out as good as possible.
> > 
> > One thing that would help me help you is knowing more about what kind of
> > features you want to work on. Could you be more specific?
> > 
> > > I found this link
> > 
> > https://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Kate/KTextEditor_Plugins_Ad
> > va> 
> > > nced which seems close (but is for Kate) but I could not even compile
> > > the
> > > code on my debain 7 system.
> > 
> > It's probably only valid for KDE4 based Kate, and not the newer KF5 based
> > Kate.
> > 
> > Bye
> > --
> > Milian Wolff
> > mail at milianw.de
> > http://milianw.de

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Milian Wolff
mail at milianw.de
http://milianw.de
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