Archive for June, 2008
New Platform Text page in the Wiki
I was inspired by Jeff’s recent post about contributing and decided to put an example of using a SourceViewer with Annotations (which took me a while to figure out) in the Platform Text Wiki. As I’m not an expert in Platform Text (or much else at this point), I made have made some mistakes or [...]
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More Documentation available for Common Navigator
As of 3.4RC4 the Platform Plugin Developer Guide how has an overview section on the Common Navigator (I was wondering who wrote these things, turns out we developers do). You can find it in the Programmer’s Guide section under
Common Navigator Framework.
When I first started using the CN, I found the tutorials on Michael’s [...]
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Nice little things
I just noticed that in the JUnit view when you select a test that’s failing it (now) goes to the line in the test case that has the failure. This is such a nice feature and it’s one example of how people take the time to “do the right thing” such that you hardly [...]
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Thanks Ed!
I was just doing some work on my product’s code to import XSD definitions, which I have not touched in probably a couple of years and I ran across this comment (in my code):
// This is the effective simple type, either from the baseType
// or the contentType, the XSD stuff figures this out (thanks Ed!)
It [...]
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Updated CNF Page on Wiki to Provide Tutorial for RCP/Resources/CNF
You can find this at the Common Navigator Framework Wiki page. I welcome any comments or corrections.
Hopefully, if I get enough time this week, I am planning on writing some text for a section in the Platform Plugin Developer’s Guide to include general instruction on the CNF based on Michael’s (and my) work. [...]
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