Clarification: a base64 string argument that encodes a bitmap.
On 25 May 2016, at 09:20, Fabian Zeindl fabian.zeindl@gmail.com wrote:
I advocate for a base64 encoded bitmap.
Textmate should be easily able to display that and it would provide maximum flexibility for plugins as it's creation can be abstractes.
It only would lead to less issues with path, tmp files etc.
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On 2016-05-25 03:12, Carpii UK wrote: Thanks Allan,
Looks interesting, I will have a play around with this when I can I was hoping I might be able to call out to ImageMagick to generate a suitable ICNS icon, but from what I can see it doesn't support ICNS forma, which is a shame.
I don't think ICNS is a requirement. The built-in icons, error and warning, use PDF, IIRC.
- Do 'marks' persist in any way, in projects or maybe tm settings?
Ie, if I was to pass a /tmp/some_temp_file.icns, would that cause an issue later if the /tmp file was later deleted and Tm relaunched?
- I wonder how feasible it would be for TM to allow a new switch in the
mark API, something like... "$TM_MATE" --set-mark-bg-color "#FF0000" --line 3
This would let us set the background color of the gutter, irrespective of the theme And also allow it to be used independantly of the current monochrome marks feature.
Just a thought anyway, not sure how easy it would be
Probably not that hard.
If mark icons are used for this I can see that this could cause conflicts with errors or warnings for something like a CSS preprocessor (Sass, LESS) or perhaps a CSS linter. I assume the mark icons for the color should be persistent, but, as far as I know, it's only possible to have one icon per line. If one runs a build command for Sass or LESS which use marks to report errors they would override the colors.
I think setting the background color as the Atom Pigments pulgin does would be pretty cool. Just make sure it's possible to turn off somehow. The Atom Pigments plugins has a couple of different ways to display the colors [1].
An additional alternative would be to have a tooltip showing the color on mouse hover. Or is it important that the color is always visible?
[1] https://github.com/abe33/atom-pigments#marker-type
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