Re: [e4-dev] Horizontal extension possibility for e4 tooling

[Joseph D Carroll Jr <jdsalingerjr@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sounds like a great idea!  I think this is exactly what we need to eliminate/keep superfluous elements from the model.  For example there could be an entire tab dedicated towards "tags".  That way when you select different model elements the list of available tags changes.

Even if there wasn't an immediate usecase, I feel that enhancements like this will foster innovation moving forward and should be implemented.  Though Tom, Sopot, and others would who invested a great amount of time into the e4 tooling would have final say, I would certainly support refactoring the code to support such extensions.

Let me know if there is anything I can do.

JD

On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 6:05 AM, Marco Descher <marco@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hy List,

WHAT

I would like to add horizontal extension possibility to the e4 tooling. That is, there already is the possibility to add new elements to the application model, and provide ones own editors

for the e4 tooling.  I would like to extend the tooling for already available elements by adding an extension point to the tooling itself.

WHY

I want to enrich already available elements with additional information. This could for example be used to add documentation information to all elements of the application model,

or would allow me to e.g. create an additional tab, valid only if I use the SWT renderer, allowing me to do deeper inspection of the model.

HOW

I plan to create an extension point allowing to contribute tabs to given elements, as can be seen in the following image. The extension point will have to define for

what model elements the contributed tab is valid, and on call of the editor the full model will be passed.

Can you please give me any feedback, on what you think about this, who would back/mentor this implementation, and what he/she would do different?

Thanks,

marco

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