Description Alex Blewitt 2002-11-21 08:49:42 EST

For any text file, the colouring and formatting in Eclipse looks great.

It would be really useful if the colouring and formatting could be captured and exported to an HTML file. Obviously this is only going to work for text-based resources (rather than any GUI based ones) but the editor could easily spew out a table with a single cell-per-line, and also put the fontify-colourings in that are used to generate the comments etc. in the editor-of-your-choice.

For example, having a Java file:

import java.util.*;
/**
 * No comment
 */
public class Thing {

could be generated as:

<TABLE>
<TR><TD><SPAN class="keyword">import</SPAN> <SPAN class="class">java.util.*</SPAN>;</TD></TR>
<TR><TD><SPAN class="comment">/**</SPAN></TD></TR>
<TR><TD><SPAN class="comment">&nbsp;*</SPAN></TD></TR>
<TR><TD><SPAN class="comment">&nbsp;*</SPAN></TD></TR>
<TR><TD><SPAN class="keyword">public class</SPAN> <SPAN class="class">Thing,</SPAN></TR></TR>
</TABLE>

where the definitions could be done in an attached/generated/in-line stylesheet.
Of course, it doesn't even have to be that flexible; you could just read off the
colours from the JFace colourings and use that with a <FONT> tag instead.

It would also help in writing nicely coloured tutorials ;-)