[TxMt Plugins] plugin beginner questions

[Roberto Saccon]

thanks very much. I managed to adapt the Clock example plugin so it
starts an Erlang VM in the background and I am working on a simple C
program to serve as command line utility within scripts to bridge to
the background Erlang VM.

But one stupid litte thing I didn't manage to figure out when I tried
to create my own plugin project with xcode. Which template do I choose
to get a *.tmplugin and not an *.app ?

regards
Roberto

On Nov 27, 2007 6:37 PM, Ciarán Walsh <ciawal at gmail.com> wrote:
> While what you want to do is likely possible, there is currently no
> API for plug-ins (aside from the facility to load them) so anything
> you want to do must essentially be done through reverse-engineering/
> hacking TextMate.
> I believe at some point TextMate 2.0 will offer a plug-in API, and
> TextMate 2.0 itself will be mostly a complete rewrite, so plug-ins
> written for the current version are unlikely to work.
>
> That said:
>
> The clock plug-in includes some code for observing the currently
> edited document (I believe it's commented out at the top of Clock.mm,
> the NSWindow subclass and poseAsClass: call below).
> At its simplest this would allow you to observe when the current
> document changes to one with an extension you are interested in and
> then run your code.
>
> To hook into file saving I think you'd want to swizzle[1] -
> [OakDocumentController saveDocument:], but an easier method would be
> to change the target of the "Save" menu item to call a method in your
> plug-in class and then call saveDocument: from there, before doing
> your custom operations.
>
> [1]: http://www.cocoadev.com/index.pl?MethodSwizzling
>
>
> On 27 Nov 2007, at 13:58, Roberto Saccon wrote:
>
> > I am struggling with plugins, and I am at the very first begin, just
> > played with the clock demo.
> >
> > I posted about this on normal textmate list, and now I discovered that
> > there is a specific plugin mailing list. I want to do better Erlang /
> > textmate integration, see details here:
> > http://www.rsaccon.com/2007/11/faster-interaction-between-erlang-and.html
> >
> > What I want to do is subscribe to events when a textmate starts and
> > stops (or even  when a specific language grammar gets activated or
> > deactivated if that is possible) and when a document gets saved. And
> > in case of such events I want to run my custom code in C for starting
> > a Erlang VM in the background, Erlang compiling and other stuff. I am
> > not familiar with Objective C, nor with Cocoa, but I am familiar with
> > C, so I guess I  an figure out things ..
> >
> > Is this possible at all ? Somebody can point me in the right
> > direction, for me figuring out how to do it ?
> >
> > Does it make sense at all ? If with upcoming TextMate 2.0 things will
> > look completely different, just say "no".
> >
> > regards
> > --
> > Roberto Saccon
> > http://rsaccon.com
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Roberto Saccon
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