Re: [cme-dev] Contributing Views to CME

[Stan Sutton <suttons@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Phil,

I think it's very important for CME
to support extensibility of views.  I don't have the experience with
Eclipse to know how extensibility of views is generally handled.  And
in the CME there is also some support somewhere and somehow for the Visualizer
view; but I don't know if that's hard coded or managed by a more generic
extensibility mechanism.

In any case, I'd be very interested
to hear your ideas on what might be done.

Regards,

Stan


Stan Sutton, Ph. D.
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Philip Quitslund <pq@xxxxxxxxxx>
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04/26/2005 04:51 PM

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Subject	[cme-dev] Contributing Views to CME

Hi All,

I'm interested in adding a view to CME.  (This view is much like the
ConcernExplorer view but with some extended features.)  Before I do
too much 
hacking I thought I'd best put the question to you: is there no clean way
to do 
this, or am I missing something?

I ask because things look pretty hard-wired at first blush: the CMEPlugin
contains references to the ConcernExplorer, SearchView and ResultsView
(without 
any clear mechanism for adding others) while ConmanBuilder explicitly sets
the 
ConcernExplorer's input after building the concern model, etc.

There are a number of ways to address this (if it's seen as a short-coming)...
Before I speculate though, I wonder if this is a desired feature.  Should
clients be able to do this kind of thing?  (I think so! ;))

Has anyone thought about this?  If not and assuming there is interest,
I'd be 
happy to draft a proposal for how this support might be added to start
the 
conversation.

Thanks!


-phil
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