[platform-search-dev] Creating potential matches with new search UI

[Steffen Ryll <steffen.ryll@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

I'm currently involved in a project where our plugin embeds a custom 
search engine into Eclipse. These days we discovered the colour setting 
for potential matches (configurable on the Search preference Page).

The question we could not find any response to yet is, how can we create 
such potential matches programmatically?

We are using NewSearchUI so far, which also has a method 
arePotentialMatchesIgnored(). However, we could not find a facility to 
create such potential match markers. SearchUI contains a constants 
hinting at that, but we are not sure how that shall be used. And, could 
we mix SearchUI and NewSearchUI functionality?!? I guess not...


A few words about the intention of our project:
For searching source code, we use an index (improve speed). We want to 
enrich Java code with include additional information, such as Javadoc 
texts belonging to a called method. Hence, we might find a hit that is 
not literally included in source code, but virtually belongs to it. We 
would like to indicate such hits as potential matches with a different 
colour.

I would be happy if someone on this list could provide some hints or 
pointers to helpful info.

Thanks in advance,
Steffen