JP'zlog

I have spent some time today working on fixing an issue we had on an Eclipse plug-in for our research prototypes. After much digging into the Eclipse API and source code, I spotted one bug, and one possible enhancement.

1. The bug: editors tab text is not refreshed immediatly when you call the one and unique method for this purpose. This is not a big issue at first, but users will easily spot this and they actually don't care much wether it is my bug or an Eclipse bug
2. The enhancement proposal: monitoring 1 resource (say a file) is cumbersome, just look at the ugly hack I had to write just to be noticed that the file opened by my editor had been renamed!!!

I have switched my Eclipse presentation to 2.x style. I find it much less cluttered, and so much nicer...

Continuing on the GEF series, let's tackle the EditParts.

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Continuing on the series on builing a GEF-based editor for Eclipse, let's see how to get an empty editor up and running when opening a file with the suitable extension.

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After an introduction to this serie on building a GEF editor plug-in for Eclipse, it's time to actually see some lines of code In this entry, we are going to see how to implement the visual part of the editor, namely the figures. To do that, we are going to use the Draw2D API and see the results in a standalone SWT application.

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This entry is the first one of a serie which will aim at showing how to develop a GEF-based Eclipse editor plug-in. I introduce here the context of this serie plus some discussion on the technology choice.

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