Re: [pde-dev] Generic Editor and form tabs

["Curtis Windatt" <Curtis_Windatt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Jonah has given some excellent suggestions
on potential problem areas.  Most of the editors in PDE already have
text editors in a tab and you should aim for similar look and feel.  We
did not create a text editor at the time because there was no formal specification
for a target definition's contents.  Its shape was therefore not API
and we continued to make edits to it.  However, there have not been
any changes to the file contents in quite some time and I expect it to
remain stable going forward.  I look forward to seeing this contribution
added to PDE.

Curtis Windatt



From:      
 Sopot Cela <scela@xxxxxxxxxx>
To:      
 pde-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Date:      
 03/06/2017 04:13 AM
Subject:    
   [pde-dev] Generic
Editor and form tabs
Sent by:    
   pde-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx

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Hello,

The Target Definition file generic editor is an example of many cases for
which I plan to provide a textual editor with syntax highlighting and autocomplete.
The .target generic editor is already available and provides the two above
mentioned features. To open it, now you have to 'Open with...' -> Generic
Editor. So it's basically an editor in its own right.

I would like to add this alternative editor as a form tab to the main target
definition editor (the UI one). So basically the TP editor would have 4
tabs: 'Definition', 'Content', 'Environment' and a new, say, 'Text editor'
which would basically be equivalent to opening this file with the generic
editor mentioned above. Just that this would be in the form tab rather
than opening it as a separate editor.

Is there any (recommended) way to make this transition from a separate
editor to a tab in a form editor? My initial investigation shows this would
have to be added as a separate FormPage through the FormEditor#addPage
but I'd like to check here first if there is a recommended way when you
already have a working separate editor in place.

Thanks for the time,
Sopot
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