SYNOPSIS
package Padre::Task::Outline::MyLanguage;
use base 'Padre::Task::Outline';
sub run {
my $self = shift;
my $doc_text = $self->{text};
# black magic here
$self->{outline} = ...;
return 1;
};
1;
# elsewhere:
# by default, the text of the current document
# will be fetched as will the document's notebook page.
my $task = Padre::Task::Outline::MyLanguage->new();
$task->schedule;
my $task2 = Padre::Task::Outline::MyLanguage->new(
text => Padre::Current->document->text_get,
editor => Padre::Current->editor,
);
$task2->schedule;
DESCRIPTION
This is a base class for all tasks that need to do expensive structure info gathering in a background task.You can either let "Padre::Task::Outline" fetch the Perl code for parsing from the current document or specify it as the ""text"" parameter to the constructor.
To create a outline gatherer for a given document type "Foo", you create a subclass "Padre::Task::Outline::Foo" and implement the "run" method which uses the "$self->{text}" attribute of the task object for its nefarious structure info gathering purposes and then stores the result in the "$self->{outline}" attribute of the object. The result should be a data structure of the form defined in the documentation of the "Padre::Document::get_outline" method. See Padre::Document.
This base class requires all logic necessary to update the GUI with the structure info in a method "update_gui" of the derived class. That method is called in the "finish()" hook.
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright 2008-2010 The Padre development team as listed in Padre.pm.This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl 5 itself.