[MonoDevelop] Addins for MonoDevelop 0.50

[Todd Berman]

On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 22:47 -0600, Jose Cornado wrote:
> Guys:
> 
> I have been thinking about writing a couple of addins for MonoDevelop
> for a while.
> 
> I have not done so mainly because I waited unitl the underlying
> components were stable enough to use.
> 
> As a brief description of how our addins work:
> 
> The addins should "attach" themselves to the build button of the toolbar.
> 
> After a successful build, depending on the nature of the source file
> (java or cs) the different components would be called.
> 
> I have a couple of questions and commets:
> 
> 1) The most logical place to call this looks:
> MonoDevelop.Services.DefaultProjectService.AfterCompile(...)
> 
> But I do not want to modify MonoDevelop. Is there an equivalent of
> "onBuildDone" event to register with as VS .Net has?
> 

No there is not, however we would be happy to add one for you, you
should file a bug on http://bugzilla.ximian.com in the MonoDevelop
component.

> 2) The only visible change to the user are a couple of views where our
> Addin could print out its messages. I am asuming that the SharpDevelop
> docs should have enough to stack these against the Task view.
> 
> Is this correct?
> 

I am not 100% sure what you mean.

> 3) Since MD can work with Java and .Net source files, would the
> default code model handle this transparently?
> 
> Or MD has the equivalent of a jdt to handle the Java code model and a
> ".Net-dt" to handle the c# code model? How do I make calls to the JVM
> from MD?
> 

You can't make direct calls to the jvm (in process) in MD right now, we
have what are called Language Bindings that basically map various
features to language specific things. I believe our current java binding
is actually designed to use gcj and ivkm, but I am not 100% up on that
piece of code.

> 4) I just installed Mono 1.0.5 and MD using Rug. I downloaded the
> source tar for MD 0.50 and the readme asks to run autogen.sh but
> autogen.sh is not there.
> 

autogen.sh is for people using SVN, configure is what you want, however,
there have been a good number of changes since 0.5, (and 0.5.1) and I
would recommend using MonoDevelop's SVN for any new development based on
it.

--Todd