Re: [ve-dev] VE requirements of CDT

[Dr Gili Mendel <gmendel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Douglas,

   This is great news.  
The JDT's DOM/AST have really made the difference and help bring down the
complexity for code generation and parsing.

    VE is a platform, but
also a (Java) Editor that is built on top of that platform.  The Editor
itself works intimately with the JavaEditor (and a Java CodeGen component).
 As a matter of fact, the VE editor *is* a JavaEditor.   Similarly
to the VE Editor, a C/C++ editor could not be built that is intimately
related to the C/C++ editor (code assist, context menus etc.) extending
the CodeGen component to parse C/C++ AST.  Significant reuse would
be achived if your AST inherents from a ASTNode.


    I am not familiar with
he CDT plugin... what is the typical UI toolkit that would be used?  Beside
the code generation/parsing, you will have to solve the way you will you
instantiate widgets (currently VE uses a target VM for Java instances and
screen scrape their images), and how will you model them using the VE EMF
model.  

   Unfortunately there are
not many white papers/docs. beyond the code at this time, so you can use
this mailing list to try an find "string edges" to pull from.




    



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Dr. Gili Mendel
IBM
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Douglas Schaefer <dschaefe@xxxxxxxxxx>
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02/06/2004 12:58 AM

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Subject	[ve-dev] VE requirements of CDT

Hey guys, 

First a congrats on the great work you've put into the visual editor so
far. Having a framework that will help the community build visual editing
frameworks is much needed. 

To introduce myself, I am Doug Schaefer, one of the lead developers on
the CDT. We are currently planning out our DOM which will fill a role similar
to JDT's DOM (IAST*). I'd like to understand what the visual editor needs
in order to support it's features in C and/or C++. Pointers to documentation
or any other information you could provide would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers, 
Doug Schaefer, Senior Software Developer
IBM Rational Software, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada