[Dltk-dev] Re: DLTK Editor Interaction

[Andrey Platov <andrey@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Folks,

I guess such a use-case would be interested to DLTK, however I'd also  
like to point Raman to Xtext project. Also Webtools' Structured Text  
Editor + GMF-based editor could be a great solution for XML-based  
languages.

Raman, could you please elaborate on your language nature, and which  
technologies you're using to build graphical editor for the project?

Thank you very much, and
Kind Regards,
Andrey



On Apr 20, 2009, at 2:46 PM, Raman Grover wrote:

> Hi
>
> I am Raman Grover, a graduate student at the University of California,
> Irvine. I have a small question in relation to Eclipse DLTK. Please  
> help
> me in answering this.
>
> Consider a case where one needs to have a graphical editor and a text
> editor for a language. The text editor is implemented using DLTK. The
> graphical editor must generate source code which is editable from  
> the text
> editor and vice versa.
>
> Since DLTK monitors the text editor, it calls the parse method
> (implemented by the editor developer) to check for syntax errors. The
> graphical editor needs to communicate with the text editor and feed it
> with the generated source code. The text editor gets notified  
> whenever the
> source code changes as the parse( ) method is called. However, the  
> source
> code can also change when graphical editor changes the source code and
> hence DLTK must be informed so that it can update its internal data
> structures holding information about the source file contents.
>
>
> Please suggest !
>
> Thank You !
>
> Raman Grover
> I love Eclipse !
>
>
> ModuleDecleration parse(char[] filename[], char [] source, IReporter
> reporter) so
> that DLTK framework gets to call the parse method, whenever the source
> code in the
> editor changes.
> I need to build a graphical editor which generates source code and  
> feeds
> into the
> DLTK framework instead of user typing the source code by hand.