# Code folding for sourceview **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby-Gnome 2\ **Created:** [November 9, 2010, 4:43am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/code-folding-for-sourceview/198845 "2010-11-09T04:43:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![okkezSS](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/85f322/32.png) [@okkezSS](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/okkezSS)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 4:43am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/code-folding-for-sourceview/198845/1 "2010-11-09T04:43:42Z")
Dear all I am writing a code editor using ruby gtk with sourceview as the editor is there a way to implement code folding here? If you have already done that, it would be great if you could share if not, some idea on how to implement this is greatly appreciated Thank you Regards Hendra ---
**Author:** ![hendra\_kusuma](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/5f8ce5/32.png) [@hendra\_kusuma](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hendra_kusuma)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 7:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/code-folding-for-sourceview/198845/2 "2010-11-09T07:02:59Z")
Hi, I found Gtk::TextTag.invisible, but docs says: Gets the value whether this text is hidden. Not implemented in GTK 2.0. ---
**Author:** ![hendra\_kusuma](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/5f8ce5/32.png) [@hendra\_kusuma](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hendra_kusuma)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 1:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/code-folding-for-sourceview/198845/3 "2010-11-09T13:59:39Z")
What about this? [http://live.gnome.org/GtkSourceView](http://live.gnome.org/GtkSourceView) Can it help? Or any other ideas? Or currently its just not possible? ---
**Author:** ![hendra\_kusuma](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/5f8ce5/32.png) [@hendra\_kusuma](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hendra_kusuma)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2010, 6:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/code-folding-for-sourceview/198845/4 "2010-11-21T06:50:26Z")
Hi Hendra: I’m writing an IDE for Ruby/Gtk myself. I’m interested in your progress. I didn’t know that we could get sourceview to work with ruby, but I’ve heard that they will be releasing a gem in the next release. I’d like to see how you’re doing it. Perhaps we could show each other our projects so we can help each other. Perhaps we could beta test for each other too. Let me know. Eric ---
**Author:** ![hendra\_kusuma](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/5f8ce5/32.png) [@hendra\_kusuma](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hendra_kusuma)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 9:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/code-folding-for-sourceview/198845/5 "2010-11-22T21:52:30Z")
Thanks Hendra. I’m reading some of it now. It looks good. I’m going to try to run it when I get home. Eric ---
**Author:** ![hendra\_kusuma](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/5f8ce5/32.png) [@hendra\_kusuma](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hendra_kusuma)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2010, 3:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/code-folding-for-sourceview/198845/6 "2010-11-26T03:21:17Z")
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 4:52 AM, Eric C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)wrote: > Thanks Hendra. > > I’m reading some of it now. It looks good. I’m going to try to run it > when I get home. Dear Eric, if you have something to ask about my code, or some news about your project please inform me Thank you Regards Hendra ---
**Author:** ![hendra\_kusuma](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/5f8ce5/32.png) [@hendra\_kusuma](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hendra_kusuma)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2010, 9:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/code-folding-for-sourceview/198845/7 "2010-11-27T09:47:30Z")
Hi Hendra: I just got home from vacation, and successfully installed gtksourceview. I installed your program, and it ran perfectly on the first try. Its a really nice looking program. You did an excellent job. I really like your code. I’m able to understand what each file does without much trouble. I’m going to read more of it tomorrow. My first question is, why did you write the GUI code by hand instead of using glade? My project is similar to yours. Mine has a code editor, and it adds version control over the network, and a simple object save/retrieve methods so you can serialize any object and store it to disk. Also, I’m including a simple method to run a glade file. So, for example, if you make a class MyClass.rb then there could be a file MyClass.glade. You could then call the MyClass#build\_glade() method to load the glade file. I’d love your help if you’re interested. I’m in my 2nd month of Ruby, so I’m still re-writing a lot. Andrea D. has been helping me break in to ruby (Thanks Andrea if you see this!). I’ll get back to you after I read more of your code. Also, what are your plans for this program? Eric ---
**Author:** ![hendra\_kusuma](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/5f8ce5/32.png) [@hendra\_kusuma](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hendra_kusuma)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 12:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/code-folding-for-sourceview/198845/8 "2010-11-22T12:08:09Z")
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Eric C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)wrote: > Eric > > – Hi Eric It’s good to hear your interest Too bad I am a bit busy right now so I must put my project on hold But of course you can see my code It is bad written thought my first intention is to get it work, optimize later so code organization is a bit messy, but shouldn’t be very difficult to understand since I only use basic syntax (and there Ruby helps with clean syntax) I attached my code here to put it on the web right now I also hope to see yours too, perhaps you can post it somewhere we can see Thanks ps. In the code you will see folder script, look into it. It’s part of my big plan, the FastGTK framework (temporary name) If you ever touch Rails, you should get some of the idea (I use some of Rails idea) ---
**Author:** ![hendra\_kusuma](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/5f8ce5/32.png) [@hendra\_kusuma](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hendra_kusuma)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2010, 3:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/code-folding-for-sourceview/198845/9 "2010-11-27T15:09:13Z")
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Eric C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)wrote: > I’ll get back to you after I read more of your code. > > Also, what are your plans for this program? Glad you like it actually, I didn’t write the code by hand. OK, I did it by hand, but not the files on controller/base directory, I generate them. Remember when I told you to take a look at script directory? There’s a code generator there. so basically, I write those ruby code in view folder, then generate files in controller/base based on files in view folder using script/migrate-view.rb, that’s what I mean when I mention my framework The reason why I don’t use glade is… because previously I have already created similar code generator for wxwidget (wxruby) but since I got stuck with wxruby I decide to migrate the code to GTK. It was far easier for me back then to migrate the code rather than to learn glade (I migrate the code from wxwidget to gtk in less than a week) your code to load glade seems very interesting, if you don’t mind perhaps you can share it? I have no experience with glade before, I think I’ll give it a try For now this project is on hold because I am very busy at the moment. I haven’t plan anything other than finishing main features. Actually I want it to be good enough to replace Geany (editor I used to code ruby). That’s the main reason why I write this app. I don’t really understand about version control so I guess yours is better than mine. But I hope you include those object browser, directory tree and split view in your project, because if you do, I will use your app, as long as it is lightweight ;D ---
**Author:** ![hendra\_kusuma](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/5f8ce5/32.png) [@hendra\_kusuma](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hendra_kusuma)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2010, 9:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/code-folding-for-sourceview/198845/10 "2010-11-27T21:09:19Z")
HI Hendra: I’ll be glad to share my project with you. However, its under heavy development right now. I can email it to you, if you send me your address. I’m planning on doing a big re-write now. You mentioned that you’re short on time, so I’m not sure if you want to take the time to understand all of it, but I’d be happy to explain what’s going on if you like. I’m going to try to find the time to understand all of your program too. I think it may take me a few sessions of reading it. I didn’t realize that the code that I was reading was generated, so its obviously more complex than I realized. Yours, Eric ---
**Author:** ![hendra\_kusuma](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/5f8ce5/32.png) [@hendra\_kusuma](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hendra_kusuma)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2010, 4:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/code-folding-for-sourceview/198845/11 "2010-11-28T04:38:39Z")
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 4:09 AM, Eric C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)wrote: > what’s going on if you like. > > I’m going to try to find the time to understand all of your program too. > I think it may take me a few sessions of reading it. I didn’t realize > that the code that I was reading was generated, so its obviously more > complex than I realized. > > Yours, > Eric I’ll give you some hints for understanding my code you run app.rb it call a file in controller directory. file in controller folder is an inheritance of files in controller/base. files in controller/base is generated from files in view folder. code generation is done before hand, not at the runtime. the code generation file is script/module-view.rb. all files in module folder is loaded automatically, there is function to make life easier such as alert, show\_message, etc (in gtk\_additional.rb) Please send your code to my email : [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) I’ll try to spare my time to see your code Thanks Eric