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BarryK · Posted: Mon 14 Sep 2009, 04:09 Post subject:

technosaurus,
Hey, my PET is 40KB! Smile

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

# ./waf configure
# ./waf build

...worked fine.

ttuuxxx · Posted: Mon 14 Sep 2009, 08:27 Post subject:

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 Smile

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 Smile

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

BarryK · Posted: Mon 14 Sep 2009, 19:07 Post subject:

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!

ttuuxxx · Posted: Mon 14 Sep 2009, 19:30 Post subject:

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-editor/files/teagtk/17.6.6/teagtk-17.6.6.tar.bz2/download

The last package I made up, its good if you want to custom configs in root/choices
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?mode=attach&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 · Posted: Mon 14 Sep 2009, 22:23 Post subject:

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?

BarryK · Posted: Tue 15 Sep 2009, 03:28 Post subject:

BarryK · Posted: Tue 15 Sep 2009, 03:31 Post subject:

Ah, yes, there is another thing that prevents me from making NicoEdit 2.1 the main text editor in 4.3 -- no line-wrapping!

So, I have to leave Geany as the main text editor. NicoEdit 2.1 will be the secondary editor (Leafpad replacement) in 4.3final.

Line-wrapping is essential for a useful text editor.

nikobordx · Joined: 23 May 2009 Posts: 84 Location: Bordeaux, France

For NicoEdit, see newer message !

nikobordx · Joined: 23 May 2009 Posts: 84 Location: Bordeaux, France

Hi again,

I make a new version of NicoEdit.

This version correct a bug found on 2.3 when you use the fullscreen.

Download it here: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?mode=attach&id=21799

See you,
Nicolas.

ttuuxxx · Posted: Wed 16 Sep 2009, 09:53 Post subject:

does anyone have it compiled ? I don't have python in 2.20, but the rest of the vala deps are install.
ttuuxxx

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7018 Location: qld

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7018 Location: qld

Please note, the .pet I packaged above is straight from nicolas' compile so may not work on some systems. Wink

ttuuxxx · Posted: Thu 17 Sep 2009, 11:30 Post subject:

disciple · Posted: Fri 18 Sep 2009, 05:40 Post subject:

Hi guys, I haven't really looked at Vala yet, but I'm wondering - does anyone have any idea how hard it would be to convert a simple-ish gtk program from c to vala? And how much easier do you think it would be to learn vala than C? Is Vala:
0. No easier than C
1. A little easier than C
2. Quite a bit easier than C
3. A lot easier than C
4. So much easier than C that there's no comparison.

Any thoughts?

disciple · Posted: Fri 18 Sep 2009, 05:51 Post subject:

I see Vala 0.7.6 is released too.