Vala and Genie programming

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#391 Post by MU » Mon 13 Jul 2009, 18:37

Caleb, you also need:
ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributio ... 2-pup4.pet

Mark

caleb72 · #392 Post by **caleb72** » Mon 13 Jul 2009, 23:22

That sorted things - to a degree.

I managed to compile NicoEdit with bk_compile - but the first time it complained about many things so I thought I probably needed the dev of glib as well. So I hunted that down and regressed all my runtime glib to 2.18 like the dev available at ibiblio.

I then got a successful build with only one warning:

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nicoedit.gs:877.32-877.35: warning: Argument 1: Cannot pass null to non-null parameter type
        buf = new SourceBuffer(null)

However, no syntax highlighting when running the application.

I still can't build either Valide or NicoEdit using waf. It's no longer complaining about my glib version (thank god). Now it's complaining about my gtk2 version.

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Checking for gtk+-2.0 >= 2.16.0             :
 error: the configuration failed (see '/root/my-documents/valide-0.5.0/_build_/config.log')

I don't see a version of gtk2 >= 2.16.0 in ibiblio. Is this something I'm going to have to find elsewhere?

Regards
Caleb

nikobordx · #393 Post by **nikobordx** » Tue 14 Jul 2009, 08:55

Hi Caleb,

For the warning, it is not important.

You do not have syntax highlighting with all files you loaded with NicoEdit ?

Nicolas.

caleb72 · #394 Post by **caleb72** » Tue 14 Jul 2009, 11:09

nikobordx wrote:Hi Caleb,

For the warning, it is not important.

You do not have syntax highlighting with all files you loaded with NicoEdit ?

Nicolas.

So far I haven't had any syntax regardless of file loaded or just by specifying the highlighting I want in the view menu.

I also notice that sometimes NicoEdit recognises what syntax highlighting it should use - but still doesn't.

Eg. if I load C source, it recognises the file as C and selects that highlighting - but there actually is no highlighting.
However, .vala files are recognised as C and .gs files are recognised as Text.

So far I've tried syntax highlighting for .vala, .gs, .c, .h, .sh, .htm and .html files. No highlighting on any.

I've guessing this is a gtksourceview issue - just don't know what I'm supposed to do about it.

Regards
Caleb

caleb72 · #395 Post by **caleb72** » Tue 14 Jul 2009, 12:09

OK - not sure if this helps - but I ran from the command line so that I could see what was being output when I changed syntax highlighting (incidentally this happens with Medit as well so it's not specific to NicoEdit).

When I select genie as a language in either app I get this:

(medit:24664): Moo-WARNING **: Failed to load '/usr/share/moo/language-specs/genie.lang': style override used with wildcard context reference in language 'genie' in ref 'def:line-continue'

NicoEdit makes exactly the same complaint but for language files loaded in a different location. Also the complaint is the same whether you select any of the languages in the list or if you load a file of a particular language.

Perhaps this brings the answer closer to the surface?

Regards
Caleb

nikobordx · #396 Post by **nikobordx** » Wed 15 Jul 2009, 21:49

Hi Caleb,

Does the .lang correctly installed ?
If not, try to reinstall gtksourceview !

Nicolas.

caleb72 · #397 Post by **caleb72** » Sat 18 Jul 2009, 00:02

OK - some more info:

When I run Medit from the command line I get the following critical failures on start-up.

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(medit:20487): Moo-WARNING **: moooutputfilterregex.c:647: PCRE library is compiled without UTF8 properties support

(medit:20487): GLib-CRITICAL **: PCRE library is compiled without UTF8 properties support

(medit:20487): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_regex_match_full: assertion `regex != NULL' failed

I see that PCRE is for regular expressions. I'm not sure if this can explain problems with syntax highlighting because I'm guessing at its core that a syntax highlighter would make extensive use of regular expressions.

However, when I run NicoEdit, I'm not getting these errors in start-up - although I am getting the following:

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** (nicoedit:22558): CRITICAL **: nico_edit_open_file: assertion `filename != NULL' failed

(nicoedit:22558): GtkSourceView-CRITICAL **: gtk_source_language_manager_get_language: assertion `id != NULL' failed

The .lang files seem to be there where it's trying to source both for nicoedit and for medit - but neither can seem to understand them properly or something.

I might try to do all of this on another 4.2 puppy I have set up and see if there's just something weird in my setup somewhere.

Regards
Caleb

nikobordx · #398 Post by **nikobordx** » Sat 18 Jul 2009, 08:32

Hi Caleb,

For:

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** (nicoedit:22558): CRITICAL **: nico_edit_open_file: assertion `filename != NULL' failed

It is not important, i have also this error, it's because no file are loaded when you load NicoEdit, if you use NicoEdit via command line (eg: nicoedit yourfile.txt) the message disappear.

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(nicoedit:22558): GtkSourceView-CRITICAL **: gtk_source_language_manager_get_language: assertion `id != NULL' failed

It is not normal !
You must reinstall gtksourceview or use a newer version.

Nicolas.

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Lobster · #402 Post by **Lobster** » Tue 08 Sep 2009, 10:29

Nico am starting a new thread for your Geany (text editor) Vala-Genie (programming language) program here :
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 260#339260

nikobordx · #403 Post by **nikobordx** » Sun 13 Sep 2009, 17:03

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#404 Post by MU » Sun 13 Sep 2009, 18:12

removed, forum works again.

technosaurus · #405 Post by **technosaurus** » Mon 14 Sep 2009, 06:17

I edited the bk_scripts a bit and got a 75 kb nicoedit binary and 35kb pet. Working great so far, but haven't tried it with genie yet. Uploaded for your pleasure. (without the french it is only 32k)

you can get the same results by not deleting the .c file in bk_compile and using:

gcc -Os -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -momit-leaf-frame-pointer -fomit-frame-pointer -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -fmerge-all-constants -march=i386 -mtune=i386 -Wl,-O,-Os,--gc-sections,-s `pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.0 --libs gtk+-2.0` `pkg-config --cflags cairo --libs cairo` `pkg-config --cflags glib-2.0 --libs glib-2.0` `pkg-config --cflags pango --libs pango` `pkg-config --cflags gtksourceview-2.0 --libs gtksourceview-2.0` -I/usr/include/gee-1.0 -I/usr/include -I. -lgee -w -std=c99 nicoedit.c -o nicoedit

BarryK · #406 Post by **BarryK** » Mon 14 Sep 2009, 08:09

technosaurus,
Hey, my PET is 40KB!

I didn't use the scripts, did it the other way:

# ./waf configure
# ./waf build

...worked fine.

#407 Post by **ttuuxxx** » Mon 14 Sep 2009, 12:27

Wow just tried the latest nico edit and boy its came a long way.
One thing I would like to see in it is tabs, and when drag a new document to the gui it opens the file in a new tab, eg drag 5 files and have 5 tabs.
after that it could be a geany replacement and not just a leafpad replacement, very close, nice size also

right now I'm using teagtk the pet is around 140kb and has highlight, line numbers, and drag and drop for tabs. Really thats all I use, I don't need fancy compiling in a editor etc. Geany just getting too bloated.
Oh I see you can export as pdf, hmmm maybe consider images? If you could add images and move them around, It would make a perfect pdf ebook creator. Just some ideas

Anyways keep up the excellent work:) very impressive.
ttuuxxx

BarryK · #408 Post by **BarryK** » Mon 14 Sep 2009, 23:07

Ttuuxxx,
Regarding tabs, I was thinking that too, but then I started playing with the History menu, and that works surprisingly well.

The problem with tabs is I often have several documents open, so have to scroll the tabs, which makes the whole thing somewhat inefficient.

However with the History menu I can flip between documents. However, what spoils that is it doesn't remember the last position. If it did, that would make it very easy to work with a large number of documents.

So, Nicolas, if you read this, my number one request is for the History menu to remember the last position of the window and the cursor position of each previously-opened file!

#409 Post by **ttuuxxx** » Mon 14 Sep 2009, 23:30

Hi Barry I don't know if you ever tried Teagtk, but it does have a nice menu under file, Like recent documents, bookmarks, sessions, templates, etc and like I mentioned its really small compared to Geany about 1/4 the size. and once you setup the basic configures like I did in my last package its pretty good.

The sources 468kb
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tea-edi ... 2/download

The last package I made up, its good if you want to custom configs in root/choices
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... h&id=21761

Playing around with the history is a good alternative way of getting around the tab issue, but for a person like myself I think the most tabs I ever need open at once is about 4, Firefox is different sometimes I have like 50 tabs open at once, lol
I would be happy to replace Geany with nicoedit if it had tabs.

ttuuxxx

ITAmember · #410 Post by **ITAmember** » Tue 15 Sep 2009, 02:23

I would like to use id3lib (http://id3lib.sourceforge.net/) in a vala program I'm planing to make. It's a c++ library that can be called from plain old C so it should work without much trouble. The problem is, I have no idea how to make the vapi file. Everything I found via google (which wasn't much) was for glib libraries and used glib only autogeneration. Any hints?

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