[cdt-dev] Understanding CDT Parser, Editor, Outline View Interactions

[George Russell <george@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

I am currently getting CDT 6.0 to accept an extended C++ dialect; I have 
currently gotten the C++ parser to parse and check the extensions, and 
am looking to further integrate the dialect support into the CDT editing 
environment.

My question is regarding the interaction between the Parser, the AST, 
Model, and Outline View, and there implementations. I think that the 
Parser builds the AST, tracking type information, and generates a model; 
the Outline View is then somehow notified of a newly completed parse, 
and traverses the model? to build its content tree.

Mu question is three fold; where can I find the Outline View 
implementation (or documentation on it?), what triggers the view's 
content being (re)built, and from what data structures is it built?

Thanks!
George Russell