[TxMt Plugins] plugin beginner questions

[Roberto Saccon]

Ciarán, Christmas came early this year. Thanks very much.

On Dec 1, 2007 6:04 PM, Ciarán Walsh <ciawal at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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Roberto Saccon
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