[Dltk-dev] Teaching the Script Editors

[Frerich Raabe <raabe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I'm successfully using DLTK 0.95 in my RCP application (based on Eclipse 
3.4). In particular, I'm using the JavaScript, Python and Tcl modules 
and they look very nice. Thanks a lot to you people! :-)

However, I'm trying to augment the editors a bit. In my application, 
people can create scripts in either of the three languages. What I'd 
like to provide is auto-completion for certain preconfigured objects. 
For instance, the user might create a JavaScript script which runs in a 
web browser. In that case, I'd like to be able to auto-complete certain 
properties of the 'window' object. So before the editing starts, I'd 
like to "teach" the editor about this.

I noticed that it works quite well if I (manually, for testing purposes) 
insert a variable declaration (in JavaScript, in this case) at the 
start, like

var window {
 location: { href: "" },
 foo: ..,
 bar: ..,
};

After typing that, the editor (the 'conciler'?) knows about the 
properties so I can nicely type window.<Ctrl+Space> and see the three 
properties. Does anybody know how I can do this automatically, from 
Java? Is there maybe some function to evaluate some given script code in 
the current editor?

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Frerich Raabe - raabe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.froglogic.com - Multi-Platform GUI Testing