[tomboy-list] Add-in Help

[S Krupa Shankar]

Hi,

I am a new Tomboy user and a relatively new user to Mono, but am a .NET developer.

I have been trying to create a new Tomboy add-in to get started. I tried to follow http://live.gnome.org/Tomboy/HowToCreateAddins with some minimal changes.

I created a InsertMyName instead of InsertDateTime. I tried to use MonoDevelop, but I do not know what file should I add as reference to refer the Tomboy namespace which contains the NoteAddin class.

So I went ahead and compiled the file along with the resource relevant file changes. I tried version version="0.7" as well version="0.14". I tried to copy it to .tomboy/Addins directory, then tried to copy it to /usr/lib/tomboy/addins directory. I tried to copy it here since I found other plugin DLLs are residing in this directory.

Now when I open Tomboy and go to Edit->Preferences->Add-ins->Tools, I could not find the Insert My Name amongst other addin names.

The command prompt log is as follows:

[DEBUG]: AddinManager.OnAddinLoaded: Tomboy.MyNameAddIn
[DEBUG]:            Name: Insert My Name
[DEBUG]:     Description: Inserts your name at the cursor position.
[DEBUG]:       Namespace: Tomboy
[DEBUG]:         Enabled: True
[DEBUG]:            File: /usr/lib/tomboy/addins/InsertMyName.dll

Does the above output mean there is no problem in loading the addin?

Please help me to compile the addin. I do not know what step I missed, please correct me.


The steps I follows and the file content are as follows:

I compiled the file as follows:
gmcs -debug -out:InsertMyName.dll -target:library -pkg:tomboy-addins -r:Mono.Posix InsertMyName.cs -resource:InsertMyName.addin.xml


InsertMyName.addin.xml content
<Addin id="MyNameAddIn"
    namespace="Tomboy"
    name="Insert My Name"
    author="Krupa"
    description="Inserts your name at the cursor position."
    category="Tools"
    defaultEnabled="true"
    version="0.1">

    <Runtime>
        <Import assembly="InsertMyName.dll" />
    </Runtime>

    <Dependencies>
        <Addin id="Tomboy" version="0.14" />
    </Dependencies>

    <Extension path="/Tomboy/NoteAddins">
        <NoteAddin type="Tomboy.InsertMyName.InsertMyNameAddin" />
    </Extension>
</Addin>

InsertMyName Content
using System;
using Gtk;
using Mono.Unix;
using Tomboy;

namespace Tomboy.InsertMyName
{
    
    
    public class InsertMyNameAddin:NoteAddin
    {
        Gtk.MenuItem item;
        public InsertMyNameAddin()
        {
            
        }
        
        public override void Initialize ()
                {
                        item = new Gtk.MenuItem (Catalog.GetString ("Insert your name"));
                        item.Activated += OnMenuItemActivated;
                        item.Show ();
                        AddPluginMenuItem (item);
                }

                public override void Shutdown ()
                {
                        item.Activated -= OnMenuItemActivated;
                }

                public override void OnNoteOpened ()
                {
                }

                void OnMenuItemActivated (object sender, EventArgs args)
                {
                        string format = Catalog.GetString ("dddd, MMMM d, h:mm tt");
                        string text = DateTime.Now.ToString (format);
                
                        NoteBuffer buffer = Note.Buffer;
                        Gtk.TextIter cursor = buffer.GetIterAtMark (buffer.InsertMark);
                        buffer.InsertWithTagsByName (ref cursor, text, "datetime");

                }

    }
}

Thank you very much for reading such a big mail.

Krupa



      
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