[TxMt Plugins] plugin beginner questions

[Ciarán Walsh]

Download this: http://ciaranwal.sh/files/TextMate%20Plugin.tgz

And extract it to /Developer/Library/Xcode/Project Templates/Bundle/  
(for Leopard – I can’t remember the location for Tiger but I’m sure  
you can find it).

On 1 Dec 2007, at 11:54, Roberto Saccon wrote:

> 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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>
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