Re: Integrating Meld into other applications

["Stephen Kennedy" <stevek gnome org>]

Hi Szilveszter,

as far as I know, you're the first one to try this. Also there are no docs :)
The good news though is that I've always kept this use case in mind.
You've probably already seen that meldapp.py is the container manager
and filediff.py the diff panes. The diff pane does not know about the container,
but sends signals which the container responds to (melddoc.py)

You can probably get quite far just by importing the filediff module and
adding the widget to a container. I'll be away for a while from tomorrow
but will check in on return. Meanwhile perhaps there are people on the
mailing list who have tried something similar?

Stephen.


On 1/30/07, Szilveszter Farkas <szilveszter farkas gmail com> wrote:
> Hi Stephen,
>
> I'm a developer from the bzr-gtk project (we are working on a GUI for
> the Bazaar VCS). Many users have requested side-by-side diff output
> support, and 3-way merge. The latter can be easily provided by just
> invoking the appropriate meld command, but for side-by-side diffs it
> would be the best to have it integrated into the GUI. My question is:
> is there any documentation out there discussing this topic? Or shall I
> just inspect the Meld codebase and figure out how to do it? (I've
> already began with the inspection, but I'd appreciate any help.) To
> summarize: I don't want to reinvent the wheel, and I think Meld does
> its job very well, that's why I thought about integrate it into
> bzr-gtk somehow.
>
> Thanks for your help in advance,
> Szilveszter / phanatic