[news.eclipse.tools.ve] Re: Make VE generate XML instead of Java

[Sri Gunturi <sgunturi@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi James,
	Some good starting points are papers available in the "Extending the 
Visual Editor Articles" section of the Visual Editor's documentation 
page 
(http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/indextools.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/vep-home/WebContent/docs/doc.html)
Regards,
Sri.

James P wrote:
> Hi,
>   Can anyone guide me on how I can extend VE to generate XML instead of 
> Java? I want to extend VE by writing a complex widget. I want to make VE 
> write the data collected from this widget to an XML file(representing 
> the semantic model). I also want to save the visual data in my own file 
> format (notational model) so that when I again open the file I can place 
> the components in the correct location and populated with the correct 
> data from my XML file.
>
>  From the source code of VE I am trying to find out where exactly is it 
> writing and reading the Java source code for the widgets (so that I can 
> intercept it and read from and write to an XML file). I haven't had much 
> luck. If someone can at least shed light on this I will be very thankful.
>
> Thanks,
> James.