[MonoDevelop] Add-in questions & Assembly questions

[Lluis Sanchez Gual]

Hi!

The problem with your add-in is that you are not embedding
the .addin.xml file as a resource. Once you do it, compile the dll and
place it where MD can find it. The location depends on how are you
starting MD. If you are starting MD using 'make run', the you'll have to
place the dll in the main/build/Addins directory. If you are running an
installed MD, you can place it in ~/.config/MonoDevelop/addins.

In your test pad you should also call .Show() on the hello world label,
since widgets are not visible by default.

I tried your add-in with the above changes and I've been able to select
it in the View menu and show it.

Lluis.

El ds 23 de 05 de 2009 a les 23:54 +0530, en/na Anirudh va escriure:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm still a little shaky with trying to build an Addin to add a pad.
> I've written the following basic addin:
> http://github.com/ninjagod/TFAddin/tree/master but I'm not able to see
> anything anywhere.
> 
> Can someone tell me which is the best way to make MonoDevelop
> recognize and load my .dll file which is in
> extras/MonoDevelop.TaskForce/build/Debug
> 
> I've referenced locally built files, rather than those in the GAC.
> 
> Thanks,
> Andy
> 
> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:51 PM, Michael Hutchinson
> <m.j.hutchinson at gmail.com> wrote:
>         On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Anirudh
>         <anirudh at anirudhsanjeev.org> wrote:
>         > Hi.
>         >
>         > I think I figured the problem out, but not by changing the
>         package configure
>         > path, but by forcing the freshly compiled assemblies.
>         >
>         > I went to the references edit page for my particular project
>         (which is in
>         > main/addins) and changed the references to the
>         MonoDevelop.Components.dll
>         > and MonoDevelop.Ide.dll assemblies, which I had to browse
>         and select. If I
>         > tried loading the assemblies from the projects, there are
>         only a few
>         > projects displayed, lib libstetic and NUnitRunner, etc, but
>         not the real
>         > projects.
>         >
>         > At the end of the day, what was supposed to work worked.
>         Moreover, it isn't
>         > taking too long to compile which is good.
>         >
>         > So should I bother with the makefiles now or keep manually
>         adding
>         > assemblies?
>         >
>         > Also, are there any specific advantages towards keeping my
>         stuff in extra/
>         > rather than in main/Addins/...? I notice a significant
>         slowdown on the
>         > machine which I'm using when I use the full workspace,
>         rather than an
>         > individual solution.
>         
>         
>         When we add your addin to MD SVN, it'll likely have to go in
>         extras,
>         but until then, if it makes things easier for you, it's fine
>         to keep
>         it in main/AddIns.
>         
>         The build system for extras is designed so each addin can
>         distributed
>         separately and built against an installed copy of MD (though
>         the
>         top-level configure script can hook them into the main build
>         for
>         convenience). This is useful for addins that are incomplete or
>         unstable, or have a different release cycle from main MD, or
>         bring in
>         large dependencies.
>         
>         > Any suggestion on where to start for adding a new pad? Also
>         I'll need to
>         > have a look at some usage of the ExtensibleTreeView class.
>         
>         
>         The ClassPad in IDE is an example of both. Other than that,
>         there are
>         pads everywhere -- for example, DesignerSupport's outline pad,
>         or the
>         debugger pads. IIRC AssemblyBrowser uses ExtensibleTreeView
>         too.
>         
>         --
>         
>         Michael Hutchinson
>         http://mjhutchinson.com
>         
> 
> 
> 
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