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I remembered a bug being

bcorfman — Thu, 15 May 2008 13:43:51 +0100

I remembered a bug being filed for side-by-side diffs quite awhile back ...
http://bugs.activestate.com/show_bug.cgi?id=20732

Just a Komodo user's comment here ... Honestly, it's probably better for a Komodo developer just to drop a shortcut to their own favorite diff tool in the Toolbox. (Getting a diff tool right is, of course, a whole project in itself.) My favorite diff tool is SourceGear's DiffMerge, which is a free download for Windows, Linux and OS X.

http://www.sourcegear.com/diffmerge/

One request done for 4.4

ericp — Wed, 14 May 2008 23:20:02 +0100

Hey Lord Bad, we haven't forgotten the list, just been working on a mess
of different items.

Bug http://bugs.activestate.com/show_bug.cgi?id=74487 is now fixed -- this
is the one where when you type something like

@array.each do<|>

Komodo will place 'end' on the line underneath. That fix will be out
in the next 4.4 alpha ("<|>" denotes the cursor position).

re: fold markers

ToddW — Wed, 14 May 2008 21:55:40 +0100

These are actual images (in xpm format), so you'll need to create your own images for this purpose, see:
http://scintilla.sourceforge.net/ScintillaDoc.html#SCI_MARKERDEFINE
http://scintilla.sourceforge.net/ScintillaDoc.html#SCI_MARKERDEFINEPIXMA...

The existing fold markers can be selected in the Komodo UI through Komodo's "Editor->Smart Editing->Folding" preferences.

Cheers,
Todd

That works for the

airdrik — Wed, 14 May 2008 20:18:43 +0100

That works for the background of the folds (which you need the following to produce a solid color, for the record:

ko.views.manager.currentView.scimoz.setFoldMarginColour(1, 0x400000)
ko.views.manager.currentView.scimoz.setFoldMarginHiColour(1, 0x400000)

)

I would also like to be able to change the colors of the fold markers (the lines on the fold margin indicating collapsible areas) as well. Any ideas?

re: fold margin colors

ToddW — Wed, 14 May 2008 18:43:31 +0100

There is no UI preference for setting the fold margin colors, but there is a way to do this through the Komodo JavaScript API. Create a new JavaScript macro in Komodo's toolbox named "set margin color" with the following code contents:

// Note that the color value is BGR, not RGB!

ko.views.manager.currentView.scimoz.setFoldMarginColour(1, 0x0000FF);

// Note that the color value is BGR, not RGB!
ko.views.manager.currentView.scimoz.setFoldMarginColour(1, 0x0000FF);

Triggering this macro will change the color of the margin. You can find out more Scintilla (scimoz) api methods here:
http://scintilla.sourceforge.net/ScintillaDoc.html#SCI_SETFOLDMARGINCOLO...

Cheers,
Todd

Something is in the works

jeffg — Wed, 14 May 2008 18:27:20 +0100

We are currently re-vamping our web properties, which will include a couple of interesting related features:

1. a 'code' site to replace the ASPN cookbooks, and which will also supports Komodo macros and code recipes

2. single sign-on across all web properties, so your code recipes etc will be linkable to your community site account.

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JeffG

Now filed as a bug in bugzilla

zimbatm — Wed, 14 May 2008 18:25:43 +0100

See http://bugs.activestate.com/show_bug.cgi?id=77001

Verified

shanec — Wed, 14 May 2008 18:16:15 +0100

I've added a bug for this:

http://bugs.activestate.com/show_bug.cgi?id=76999

You can add yourself as a CC on the bug, I'll try to get this addressed for the next release.

Do you mean something that's

bcorfman — Wed, 14 May 2008 17:46:36 +0100

Do you mean something that's different from clicking on Extensions in the Community webpage sidebar? All the available Komodo extensions are there, and it's a couple pages worth. I haven't found any problems updating my kNose extension regularly using their mechanism. Maybe you could describe what you mean in more detail.

If you're talking about setting up something like a SVN repo, wiki, an issue tracker, etc., I think a hosting service like code.google.com is better for that sort of thing, i.e. that's what I did recently for my kNose extension.

UPDATE: It works OK on Mac OS X too!

lucadex — Wed, 14 May 2008 16:55:53 +0100

A quick update to my previous post.
Everything works fine _even_ on Mac OS X.

The problem is related to downloading the file .xpi with Safari which, for whatever reason, is automatically expanded into a folder. In my previous attempts I compressed again the folder into a .zip file and renamed as sourcetree.xpi.zip. Apparently the installation through the Extension Manager went smoothly but after a restart Source Tree didn't work.

So Mac users, just download sourcetree.xpi via wget or curl (maybe Firefox works - didn't test it) and use this file for the installation.

Ciao and kudos to Iván for the excellent work!
Luca De Santis
Pisa, Italy

Try Tkx.

Anthony — Wed, 14 May 2008 15:36:36 +0100

Tkx is what ActiveState use for the PerlApp interface. I think Tkx is an excellent alternative to Tk. It's cleaner and prettier and the porting is relatively easy. The problem is that few other people are using it. If you have a problem implementing something, you have to either read the Tk manual and figure out the conversion, read the Tcl manual and figure out the conversion, or just test...test...test.

Excelent extension

brabitom — Wed, 14 May 2008 10:16:53 +0100

This is excelent extension combining Local Drive and Remote Drive extensions.
But i have 2 suggestion.
1. in local drive i can't see network drives, why ?
2. can you add function to create files on remote servers ?

Thanks for this extension, it's really excelent.

Awesome! When are you going

jeffg — Tue, 13 May 2008 23:00:11 +0100

Awesome! When are you going to implement using number keys instead of F keys? This is a killer app for me, I am currently using some hacky macros to do Cmd+Number tab navigation on OS X.

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JeffG

I'm currently building at

jeffg — Tue, 13 May 2008 22:41:46 +0100

I'm currently building at least one other project template ( for Zend Framework integration ) and we are adding some stuff into Komodo to allow for better support for things like AIR in the autocomplete system using a combination of a template bundled in an extension. If you have any questions or need some help getting started, let me know.

Somewhat obfuscated fact: if your Komodo extension has a directory in it called 'project-templates', you can add templates into there and have them become available to users that have the extension installed. Your file system layout would look like this:

In the 'new project from template' dialog, you would see the 'Zend Framework' category and the project template inside that. The folder / category is arbitrary, but it *has* to be there.

The power of this is that you can bundle your templates with an extension that may also contain other functionality, or dialogs that can be run with chrome privileges.

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JeffG

Sure

jeffg — Tue, 13 May 2008 05:17:44 +0100

C++ syntax highlighting is supported, and you can associate *.m files with C++ in Preferences / File Associations. Currently Objective C syntax is not supported, but it could be possible to add it via an extension:

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/docs/Komodo/4.3/udl.html

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JeffG