Re: [anjuta-devel] Continuing with AVR plugin

[Sébastien Granjoux <seb sfo free fr>]

Hi Lucas,


Le 17/02/2012 00:45, Lucas van Dijk a écrit :
> Well, I thought it wasn't really 'the way to go' to have a lot of UI
> code in your plugin, and if I recall correctly someone even suggested
> the XML file thing a while ago, and when I think about it, it's
> definitely the most clean option. In this way we can also make sure the
> configure dialog still looks nice, and prevent plugins which add an ugly
> designed widget set to the configure dialog.

I would prefer to avoid having lot of UI in my plugin too. But I think 
just adding a few function to the build plugin to add different kind of 
properties could be enough. It means that the properties are hard coded 
inside your plugin. It's a bit less flexible but easier to implement. 
Then, if we need more flexibility I'm agree we can have an XML file.


> The problem I have with the current GDB 'tab' in preferences is that the
> information is stored in the project session and it's not an Anjuta wide
> setting.

I don't see it as a problem. Most settings in this area are saved as 
Anjuta wide settings, it's really easy to do it for the pretty printer 
preference too. I have saved them in the project because I have thought 
it was making more sense but it can be changed.


> Therefore I think it's better to have a dialog in the 'Debug'
> menu. I think the GDB executable and other settings should be stored in
> the project session too, and with that it's also possible to have
> project wizards provide an initial session file with for example
> 'avr-gdb' as default GDB executable.

I'm agree that this would be a nice way to define default value. But the 
pretty printer preferences are already saved in the session file, so 
obviously it is already possible to do it as you want.

I think we have only to add some functions to make this easier.


Regards,

Sébastien