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Re: [imp-dev] Icon for language files in new IMP-generated plug-in
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Hi Andy,
Good to hear from you. Regarding
the icons field that you get with the new language, there are probably
a couple of issues. One is that I don't believe we've ever actually
supported it; the other is, even if we did support it, there's probably
something more involved to getting the icon used as you'd expect. This
is probably something we should address more clearly in our documentation
(so I'll try to do that).
Regarding our support for it, our wizard
should take a specified value and do something useful with it. Right
now the wizard ignores the field (along with several others). Probably
what it should do is create an "icons" folder in the project
and copy the designated icon into it. That may be all that can be
expected of the wizard at that point.
As for getting the icon into use by
Eclipse, I'm not sure of all the ways that might happen. One way
that happens is through a "label provider", which is a class
that is available for providing text labels or icons for a given entity
(e.g., file or AST node). We support the generation of a label provider
through the New Tree Model Builder / Label Provider wizard. (The
tree model builder is the new approach to developing outline trees for
the outline view. We lump these things together because by default
the tree model builder will reference the label provider to get labels
and icons for displayed models, as in the outline view. But I think
the wizard allows you to generate either the model builder or label provider
individually, if you want to do that.) Anyway, the part of the wizard
that creates the label provider will create an icons folder and copy some
default icons into it. If you look at the generated default implementation
of the label provider class, you should see how it returns various texts
or icons (or other images) for various kinds of things. You can customize
that to return the icon that you'd like to be used for your files or in
your outline.
I suggest running the New Tree Model
Builder / Label Provider wizard. For one, it should create the icons
folder, give you a few default icons (that you will probably want to change),
and give you a place to manually save the icons that you want to use. For
another, it also gives you the label provider class implementation, which
will provide labels and icons for at least some of the contexts where you'd
expect to see them (e..g, in the outline view or on editor tabs). Then
you can customize the icons that the provider provides.
Sorry for this confusion. This
is a definite problem, so if you'd like to enter a bug report, please feel
free to do that. If you would prefer, I can enter one instead.
Let me know if this helps.
Regards,
Stan
Stan Sutton, Ph. D.
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
19 Skyline Drive, Hawthorne, NY 10532 USA
telephone: 1-914-784-7316, FAX: 1-914-784-7455, T/L 863
e-mail: suttons@xxxxxxxxxx, Stan Sutton/Watson/IBM@IBMUS
"Crapo, Andrew (GE,
Research)" <crapo@xxxxxx>
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Glad to see that things are coming together
on eclipse.org/imp and that Eclipse 3.3 is now supported.
I installed IMP and LPG on Eclipse 3.3 and
created a new plug-in project and language per the instructions at http://www.eclipse.org/imp/documents/IMP_Users_Guide.pdf.
In the wizard I specified a project-relative path and icon for my
language files but nothing happened--I
still get the default eclipse icon for files with my language extension….
Are there instructions for making this work that I'm missing?
Andy
Andrew Crapo
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