Re: [ jEdit-devel ] Project Viewer and extra option panes

[Marcelo V. <va...@us...>]

Hi Dale, I'll break the answer in two parts.

Dale Anson wrote:
> I've added an option pane to JavaSideKick that sets the appropriate
> properties so this option pane shows up in the ProjectViewer options.
> That all works well with no dependencies on ProjectViewer.  However, I'm
> not seeing a way to save the properties set in my option pane on a per
> project basis.  

Saving project-specific options is kinda non-optimal right now since I
strived to keep things as compatible as possible with jEdit's option
panes without code mofidication.

If you want to keep both, I'd recomment having your option pane work on
a java.util.Properties object directly; when loading/saving the values,
you detect whether you're being called from jEdit or ProjectViewer (both
jEdit and VPTProject have a getProperties() method).

To get the project being edited when the project option pane is shown,
you can call "projectviewer.config.ProjectOptions.getProject()". I'm
pretty sure it returns null if no project is being edited.

> Right now, it doesn't matter which project is open, the
> same properties from my option pane apply.  How can I get per project
> properties set?

Similarly, to apply project-specific properties you'll need a reference
to the currently active project in the view. You can get that by calling
projectviewer.ProjectViewer.getActiveProject(View). Note that this
method can return null.

This kinda goes back to the discussion we had here a long time ago:
should we have some system where there's a "property context" so that
option panes can save "context specific" properties, and plugins could
provide custom contexts (like a project would be a "property context")?

-- 
Marcelo Vanzin
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