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Full reinstall might not be necessary

ericp — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:20:18 -0800

I've run into this a couple of times with version 5, although
only on my development branch while experimenting, and found
I could restart Komodo by doing the following:

First try this:
remove prefs.xmlc

Restart Komodo. If that doesn't work, take this more
drastic step:

rename prefs.xml hidePrefs.xml
remove prefs.xmlc
restart Komodo
shutdown Komodo
Now manually copy the parts you need from hidePrefs.xml to prefs.xml
so you get back settings like your recently-visited-files lists, etc.

I haven't determined the cause for the hang yet.

Issue Resolved with komodo 5 starting

william.m.bell — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:07:36 -0800

I have found the answer to my problem under another thread...

http://community.activestate.com/node/2997

To summarize a couple of Posts by ToddW....

Check the Komodo log files, to see if they report anything strange:
http://community.activestate.com/faq/komodo-file-locations#log_files

I'd recommend a complete uninstall/re-install of Komodo, to ensure that is not a problem, and if that fails, try resetting your Komodo profile (by renaming your "KomodoEdit" directory under your profile directory - the location is in the above faq).

Konodo 5 doesn't start

william.m.bell — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:00:35 -0800

Hi all,

I just upgraded to Komodo 5.0.2 on XP Pro (went all out and got the Active Perl Pro Studio) and installed the Perl Dev Kit Pro 7.3 as well. I am also running into an issue of Komodo starting.

From looking at other posts I have also gone the route of rebooting and reinstalling. I don't actually see the komodo application in task manager and any log files in C:\Documents and Settings\\Application Data\ActiveState\KomodoIDE\5.0\host- are 0 length.

I had 4.4 working fine on the machine (as a matter of fact the machine is newly templated so the registry etc hasn't had time to get messed up as yet).

Any thoughts or suggestions would be welcom

Cannot reproduce

virshu — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 09:42:13 -0800

I deleted C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\ActiveState\KomodoIDE\5.0 and installed side-by-side with 4.4. And now everything works. Strange, but who am I to argue :) Maybe there were some entries from first installation that caused trouble even after reboot / reinstall.

I did see some entries in C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\ActiveState\KomodoIDE\5.0\host-<hostname>\pystderr.log that you may find helpful:

ERROR: KoObserverService: 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Program\Komodo5\lib\mozilla\components\koObserverService.py", line 66, in _getLiveObservers
    if not callable(wr) or wr() is not None:
  File "C:\Program\Komodo5\lib\mozilla\python\xpcom\client\__init__.py", line 528, in __call__
    return Component(self._comobj_.QueryReferent(iid)._comobj_, iid)
  File "", line 3, in QueryReferent
Exception
ERROR: KoObserverService: 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Program\Komodo5\lib\mozilla\components\koObserverService.py", line 66, in _getLiveObservers
    if not callable(wr) or wr() is not None:
  File "C:\Program\Komodo5\lib\mozilla\python\xpcom\client\__init__.py", line 528, in __call__
    return Component(self._comobj_.QueryReferent(iid)._comobj_, iid)
  File "", line 3, in QueryReferent
Exception

There are also a bunch of warnings from KoObserverService that observers not removed

P.S. Note to self: posting on the forum gets a much faster response that "contacting technical support" form.

re: not starting

ToddW — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 08:54:56 -0800

Hi Virshu,

Can you please check the Komodo 5 log file to see if there are any exceptions getting reported:
http://community.activestate.com/faq/komodo-file-locations#log_files

Also, you can install Komodo 5 alongside Komodo 4 (you just need to rename the existing "/Applications/Komodo" directory to something like "/Applications/Komodo 4").

For the email weirdness, we were replacing our mail server just a few days ago which may have contributed to this. Thanks for letting us know.

Thanks,
Todd

re: updated the extension

ToddW — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:02:30 -0800

I've updated the extension, I found a workaround for the comment problem.

Yes, this extension is open source and anyone can contribute. If you'd like to contribute, the best approach will be to checkout the code:

svn co http://svn.openkomodo.com/repos/addons/maya maya_extension

Read the Readme.txt file for a brief overview of how it is built, then examine/tweak the files as you wish.

Any changes can be contributed back by submitting a bug at:
http://bugs.activestate.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=komodo
and including the patches (svn diff) of what you have changed.

Cheers,
Todd

Todd, excuse my ignorance,

ynedelin@gmail.com — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:38:20 -0800

Todd,
excuse my ignorance, what do you mean by regular expression?

Also, my understanding is mel plug in for komodo Edit is an Open source thing. Does that mean any one can contribute? And if so how can I?

thansk

Yury

re: feedback

ToddW — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:25:16 -0800

Thanks for the feedback Yury.

I've run into a bug that is stopping me from fixing the commenting problem:
http://bugs.activestate.com/show_bug.cgi?id=81066
Though there should be a fix for this soon.

I'll need to examine the command coloring to see what alternatives there are, as there are only 10 possible different styles to play with... does Mel use regular expressions at all?

Cheers,
Todd

ok cool thanks I have

ynedelin@gmail.com — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:14:32 -0800

ok cool thanks

I have noticed a couple of things not working the mel way. When commenting out with CTRL+3, Komodo creates "#" instead of "//".
And "`", its the key right under the escape key, does not create a string but an explicit command.

if (!`size($selected)`)
error "You must select something";
else if (size($selected) > 1)
error "Too many things selected";

right now `size($selected)` is colored as if it's a string.

Thanks a lot Todd
yury

re: keywords and command lists

ToddW — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:37:42 -0800

There are two keyword/builtin lists used by the extension. One is used to provide the syntax highlighting (colorising), the other is used for the automatic completion list after typing two characters.

Completion list words
http://svn.openkomodo.com/openkomodo/view/addons/maya/pylib/lang_mel.py

After installing the extension, this file is added underneath you Komodo app data directory:

  5.0/host-HOSTNAME/XRE/extensions/maya@activestate.com/pylib/lang_mel.py

You can edit this file yourself, and after restarting Komodo the completions list will be updated.

Syntax highlighting words
http://svn.openkomodo.com/openkomodo/view/addons/maya/udl/mel-mainlex.ud...

This udl file is used to generate the lexer, the only way to update the syntax highlighting is by modifying this file and then re-building the extension.

If I've missed certain keywords or builtin functions, let me know :)

Cheers,
Todd

editing locally

ynedelin@gmail.com — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:53:31 -0800

hey Todd thanks a lot for making Mel work, not I can ave nice full editor for both Maya and Python for my work.

Is there a way for me to edit keywords and commands lists locally?

Yury

awesome!!!

ynedelin@gmail.com — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 01:10:59 -0800

thanks a lot Todd,
I will try it first thing tomorrow morning.

yury

re: set the language

ToddW — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 16:26:32 -0800

Hi John,

When opening existing files, Komodo will automatically determine the language type from the file extension ".html" and also from looking at the content.

When Komodo creates a new file, the default is text, unless you select a different language type in Komodo's new file dialog when you were creating the file.

You can also set the language type by left-clicking on the Language statusbar "Text" in the bottom right hand corner of the Komodo statusbar, and then choose a different language type.

If this is not working as described, then there may be a bug with Komodo (and we'll need more information on the file contents, file name, etc...).

Cheers,
Todd

re: extension available

ToddW — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 16:12:25 -0800

I've created a Maya-Mel extension and it's now uploaded to the Komodo community site:
http://community.activestate.com/node/3021

If your using Komodo 5, then you can use Komodo's "Tools->Add-ons" menu to bring up the add-ons dialog, search for mel, then install the extension right from the add-ons dialog.

Cheers,
Todd

This is the jedit mel syntax

schimac — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 09:50:00 -0800

This is the jedit mel syntax highlighting mode. You can find more mel syntax highlighting mode at http://www.highend3d.com/maya/downloads/tools/syntax_scripting/

mel.xml

Note: file removed (too long), see above link for keyword files