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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Interacting with KatePart from code
From:       Milian Wolff <mail () milianw ! de>
Date:       2013-05-29 20:42:09
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On Wednesday 29 May 2013 21:38:03 Adrián Chaves Fernández wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I want to start an application with a text editor that provides a specific
> syntax highlighting, as the application is only going to support a specific
> type of files (MediaWiki). Then I plan to build some features
> (auto-complete, etc.) on top of it.
> 
> Not to reinvent the wheel, I wanted to reuse Kate's text edition widget.
> I've actually been working on improving the MediaWiki syntax highlighting
> support in Kate, so reusing that work for my app would be ideal.
> 
> So I found myself copying and pasting the code in
> http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Using_KParts
> 
> Now I have a working KatePart. But I have no idea whatsoever about
> interacting with it from code (such as getting an instance of
> KateDocument). Any recommendation that puts me in the right direction to
> set the KatePart syntax highlighting from code?

Look at KTextEditor and its apidox. If in doubt grep for it in KDevplatform to 
see how its being used.

> Also, I want to manually define the context-menu items and any other actions
> in the interface, so I'm not calling createGUI(m_part). Most KatePart
> actions I don't want to provide, so is KatePart the right choice for me
> nonetheless? Or is there another way (without kparts) of reusing Kate's
> text edition widget that fits my use case better?

You can use KTextEditor::Editor::createDocument (e.g. from 
KTextEditor::Factory) and then create a view for that document. Regarding 
filtering of context menu items, I'm not sure anymore whether there is 
anything being added automatically. If so and you cannot find a way to 
circumvent that, feel free to contact us on kwrite-devel and we'll find a way 
to solve this.

Cheers

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Milian Wolff
mail@milianw.de
http://milianw.de
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