Nqq-plugins needs implementation

[Justin Kinnaird]

See https://blueprints.launchpad.net/notepadqq/+spec/nqq-plugins for further details.

[Justin Kinnaird (teklad)]

In the short term I believe option #1 would be the best route to take. What do you think about having option #3 also available to later down the road for those people that enjoy making love to C++ plugins? It isn't really a priority just figured I'd pull your thoughts on it so we can modify the blueprint as necessary.

[Daniele "OpenNingia" Simonetti (oppifjellet)]

if we implement binary plugins we should also consider providing a "safe mode" to run the app without loading plugins. Just in case one of them is causing the program to crash at startup. Also we should be aware of x86, x86_64 conflicts

[Daniel Di Sarli (danieleds0)]

I think that binary plugins could cause more trouble than advantages. I'd keep it simple by going only with option #1.

[Justin Kinnaird (teklad)]

We will go with option #1 then. I'm in agreement that it would probably be more trouble than its worth and a larger headache to maintain.

[Justin Kinnaird (teklad)]

I've changed around the blueprint to reflect the decision. If everyone is in agreement with the current blueprint we can go ahead and approve it.

[Daniele "OpenNingia" Simonetti (oppifjellet)]

a tentative implementation is here:
https://github.com/OpenNingia/notepadqq/tree/plugins/

this is an hello world plugin:

({
 name: "HelloWorld",
 init: function()
 {
  nqq.debug("init called");
  nqq.addMenuItem("HelloWorld", this.hello_world);
 },

 hello_world: function() {
  editor = nqq.create()
        text = nqq.prompt("Text", "EnterText", "Hello world!");
  editor.append(text);
 }
});

save this as helloworld.qs

and place it under ~/.config/notepadqq/scripts/

[Aaditya Kalsi (aadityakalsi)]

Do you see benefit in using another language as a plugin language, and write a c++-<insert language> bridge and expose an API in that language?

[Daniele "OpenNingia" Simonetti (oppifjellet)]

Yes, of course. The tentative implementation here ( https://github.com/OpenNingia/notepadqq/tree/plugins/ ) uses a variant of Javascript ( QtScript ) as plugin language.

[Aaditya Kalsi (aadityakalsi)]

haha.. i shouldve seen that.. :) my concern is use of existing libraries in that language and amount of support available.. i'll just read more on QtScript. Thanks.