Re: libseed-list Editor with context sensitive help for Seed (Gtk+) development

["Alan Knowles" <alan akbkhome com>]

 --- On 28/Jan/2011, Osmo Antero Maatta wrote: 
> Hello,
> I will need to create an application with Javascript and GTK+ toolkit 
> and Seed seems the way to go.
> 
> Is there an editor with context sensitive help for Seed and gir-files?

Not that I know of..    

> 
> Should I simply start by creating a program that reads all relevant 
> gir-files (XML files) from /usr/share/gir-1.0/* and then presents a 
> function signatures and context help from that.

The GIRepository API is the best way to approach that.
 
> I want to have a list of GTK+ and GDK functions in pure Javascript 
> format. The c-manual for GTK+ (on the web) is of course great but 
> context sensitive help would make the development much faster.

This is probably what you are looking for.
http://www.roojs.org/seed/gir-1.1-gtk-2.0/

The code to generate it is here.
http://git.gnome.org/browse/introspection-doc-generator


Regards
Alan


> 
> $ ls -l /usr/share/gir-1.0/*
> 
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   17041 2010-09-23 16:04 
> /usr/share/gir-1.0/AppIndicator-0.1.gir
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root    1706 2010-08-12 02:44 
> /usr/share/gir-1.0/cairo-1.0.gir
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1234461 2010-09-16 20:49 
> /usr/share/gir-1.0/Clutter-1.0.gir
> ...
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4314220 2010-09-28 09:29 
> /usr/share/gir-1.0/Gtk-2.0.gir
> 
> I work on Fedora14 and Ubuntu Linuxes and Gedit is my editor.
> 
> Kindly
>    osmo antero (moma)
> 
> BTW: the new audio-recorder is ready for testing.
> please see: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=10382643 
> <http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=10382643#post10382643>