Re: [platform-ui-dev] Creating an E4 view or editor in the eclipse workb

[Stefan Xenos <sxenos@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> The e4 programming model is very powerful and it would be great if we could start using it in the IDE.

I was actually interested for another purpose -- there was some discussion on the UX mailing list about the possibility of replacing dialog boxes with embedded nonmodal parts. I was considering the possibility of building something that could host E4-style parts, but wanted to experiment with them a bit first.

On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 6:29 AM Lars Vogel <lars.vogel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Stefan,

e4 views work relatively well in the IDE.
http://www.vogella.com/tutorials/EclipsePlugin/article.html this one
should help you. We describe in detail how to add menu and toolbar.

Adding an e4 view is a little bit hidden, see
http://www.vogella.com/tutorials/EclipsePlugin/article.html#supporting-part-descriptors-in-an-eclipse-4-5-ide
for the short version.

For e4 editors in the IDE, the "only" required change is a different
tag. The challenge here is that existing plug-ins extensions may not
find them.

Actually at runtime everything is an e4 element, have a look at
ViewRegistry and EditorRegistry where we do the conversion at runtime.

We definitely have some missing parts for the e4 story in the IDE,
currently Simon, Olivier Prouvost and I are planning to met in
November for a week to work on them.

Feel free to shoot me an email if the tutorial is unclear or if you
need more help. The e4 programming model is very powerful and it would
be great if we could start using it in the IDE.

Best regards, Lars


On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 3:17 PM, Stefan Xenos <sxenos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'd like to use the E4-style DI for creating an editor in the Eclipse IDE,
> but I can't figure out how. The first thing I tried was implementing an
> E4-style view and attaching it to an element in the editors extension point,
> but it didn't work. :-(
>
> I've seen some guides describing how to create E4 views, but all of them
> seem to be targetted to Eclipse RCP applications. I couldn't find any
> information related to the Eclipse IDE.
>
> Is it even possible?
>
>   - Stefan
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