Adding new options to a plugin is a pain. There is a lot of code that has
allways to be changed for that. This is the reason why I've created the
Beryl/Compiz XML options parser (bcop). Bcop allows you easily to describe
options in XML and will autogenerate the needed Beryl/Compiz C code for you.
The only think that needs to be changed in a existing plugins is to include
the xxx_options.h file. The autogenerated code appends the new options to the
existing options, this gives the possibility to handle some special cases in
the plugin directly.
I have not found the time to write a README that describes the functionality,
but there is a "example.options" file ("bcop [--compiz]
example.options" will
generate example_options.h and example_options.c). The most interesting parts
are the automatic handling of restricted strings (type="enum") as enum
and
the handling of restricted string lists (type="selection") as masks.
Reading
the autogenerated code should not be that hard.
The group,subgroup and hints XML keys are only used for beryl code generation.
I have also added a new version of my generic plugins Makefile that now
handles Beryl and Compiz, multiple source files and the bcop interface.
You can checkout the code from Beryl svn with:
svn co svn://svn.beryl-project.org/beryl/trunk/bcop/
The whole system is not well tested yet. I've created a bcop component in
the
beryl bug tracker at http://bugs.beryl-project.org please report bugs and
problems there.
Dennis "onestone" Kasprzyk