On Thursday, 9. November 2006 00:16, Michael Uman wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to implement a new language into KDevelop.
My company
> develops DSP chips which use a proprietary assembly
language. I would
> like to support the generation of the microcode using
the KDevelop IDE.
> We are currently using some other IDEs for their syntax
color
> hilighting. I would like to support this in KDevelop
and also support a
> project database of symbols for use in a project
browser.
Do you want to target version 3 or rather the upcoming
version 4 of KDevelop?
(Given the wizard generation hint, I suppose you'll have it
for KDevelop 3,
I just want to make sure.)
For KDevelop 3, the best (rather: only) documentation of how
to do it is at
http://kdevelop.org/HEAD/doc/api/html/how
ToAddProgrammingLanguages.html
which you might want to visit if you didn't find it already.
For KDevelop 4, a few things will be changing in the API,
but at least the
overall structure of a language support plugin will be
remotely similar 
As for syntax highlighting, you need to write a syntax
highlighting file for
KatePart, the text editor component that KDevelop is using.
You can find the currently available highlighting files at
http://kate-editor.org/downloads/syntax_high
lighting?kateversion=2.5
and the documentation on how to do that (for KDE 3's
KatePart, I don't know if
they changed it for KDE 4) is at
http://kate-editor.org/article/writing_a_kate
_highlighting_xml_file
As for a symbol database, this is done by storing the
symbols in a CodeModel
(short description is also on the
howToAddProgrammingLanguages page).
If you've got a CodeModel together, you get the project
browser for free.
Anyways, you probably won't get around looking at the source
of one of the
supported languages supporting a code model.
Hope that helps a bit.
If not, maybe someone else on the list has some good advice
too
Regards,
Jakob
by the way, with questions of developing rather than using
KDevelop, you're
better off mailing the kdevelop-devel list instead of the
plain kdevelop one.
There are way more knowledgable people around there.
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