Hi, what also would be interesting: Toolbar items that are only available for a specific document type. E.g. I don't want to see "Create PDF" provided by a LaTeX plug-in when my current file is a perl program.
Best regards, Z. On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 2:01 AM, Adam Kennedy <adamkennedybac...@gmail.com>wrote: > Here's how I'd do it the boring way. > > Step 1 is probably to allow registration of "actions". > > I've been doing some refactoring of the action system to allow this, it's > probably close enough to work now. > > Step 2 is possibly somehow to have support for more than one toolbar, which > we don't really do right now. > > Step 3 is a toolbar editor and somewhere to save your toolbar preferences > into. FormBuilder will probably now let you churn out the dialog structure > fairly quickly. > > That wouldn't add anything by default, but it would let you manually add > tools to the toolbar yourself. > > It really depends how big the plugin is. Something with 20 toolbar entries > of it's own probably demands an entire extra row. Something that only adds > one toolbar element, not so much. You just want it appended to the normal > ones. > > ... and it has to somehow survive plugin reloading (which would be a pretty > interesting trick). > > Adam K > > On 14 July 2010 14:20, Peter Lavender <pla...@internode.on.net> wrote: > >> Hi Everyone, >> >> The plugins are a really handy feature, however one thing that I think is >> missing for plugins is a way to access their actions via a toolbar. >> >> Accessing the same thing over and over via the menuing system gets a bit >> cumbersome after a while. >> >> I had "whinged" about this before, hoping someone with more knowledge than >> me might also pick up the itch and have a go at implementing something that >> would allow plugins to register their own toolbar and then make it visible >> in the IDE. >> >> So, today I had a bit of a go, mostly just cargo culting what has been >> done already with the directory tree the "bottom" pane etc. >> >> And this is the result... Yes, I have just stuck Padre's toolbar in there >> for now, and spacing isn't so great etc etc.. it's really just a proof of >> concept. >> >> >> >> Is this something to go further with do you think? >> >> Pete. >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Padre-dev mailing list >> Padre-dev@perlide.org >> http://mail.perlide.org/mailman/listinfo/padre-dev >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Padre-dev mailing list > Padre-dev@perlide.org > http://mail.perlide.org/mailman/listinfo/padre-dev > >
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