On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 08:34 -0800, email@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hello, > > I'm very new to GTK and Linux programming in general-- I come from a Win32 > background. I am very fond of the free software movement and for that > reason, among others, have chosen gnome to use as my environment and have > chosen to learn GTK+/Gnome programming. > > I do a bit of programming for an embedded 8-bit programmer known as a PIC. > It has a very small instruction set and is compiled using a program known > as gpasm. I wanted to create a small text editor with syntax highlighting > for it's asm syntax and have the assemble callable from within the editor > and show the output in the output window-- basically a lightweight and > minimal IDE for a PIC. > > My question is, would this type of thing be doable via plugins for GEDIT > and if so, can someone point me in the right direction? I'd rather not > reinvent the wheel. GEDIT is perfect if I can find a way to add my syntax > highlighting and create a dialog for calling the assembler. > > If GEDIT is not the way to go, does anybody know of a good way to approach > this project. I realize I have a lot of learning to do. I have two books > on the subject of GTK and/or Gnome developement and have been tinkering > within the Anjuta IDE-- but am ultimately a "newbie". Any advise would be > much appreciated. I think that Gedit is the solution here. You need to do two things: 1) Gedit uses the GtkSourceView widget to do the actual display and editing. A bit of googling should show you how to define a new highlighting mode. IIRC it just involves creating a simple text file to define the language. 2) Gedit has a plugin capability. I have never used this before, but I don't imagine it is that tricky. You should download the source (and the source for the plugins) and look at the provided plugins. Keith. _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
