[news.eclipse.platform] Re: Need direction on simple"terminal" plugin

[Pete <pete@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Eric,

I had found those topics and, although some are fairly good, they didn't address what I needed, 
specifically.  Your comment:

> Embedding Swing in a plug-in is a specialty topic that requires some
> special handling.

is kind of what I am looking for.  The "Swing" articles seems to involve RCP rather than a "direct" 
plugin.  I'll continue to look and hope that someone will see this post and offer some additional 
advise.  I think there was someone who posted a similar query here back on the 22nd ("Plugin 
development: integration of external editor") which has gotten no replies.  Perhaps this is harder 
than it looks.

There is an article on IBM's site that reviews something similar:
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-swing/
I may take another look at it.

Thanks for your time,

Pete

Eric Rizzo wrote:
> Pete Helgren wrote:
> > I have an existing swing application that connects to host and starts 
> > a terminal session.  I would like to make this a plugin that displays 
> > similar to a browser/editor in the IDE as a tab.  I have looked at 
> > several examples and scoured the Internet looking for a simple example 
> > but have found none. I created an RCP from this swing app using about 
> > 8 lines of code but it displays as a separate window.  I want it to 
> > "snap in" to the IDE as a tabbed window.
> >
> > What is the easiest way to do this? Is there a simple example that 
> > shows how to take an existing swing application and create a plugin 
> > that "snaps in" to the IDE? (sorry if the terminology is wrong) I am 
> > new to plugin development and Swing development so I need a very 
> > clear, step by step that explains how this is accomplished.
>
> To begin with, the Eclipse Help includes a tutorial on writing plugins. 
> Choose Help > Welcome, and on the welcome page click the Tutorials button.
>
> In addition, here are some articles about writing Eclipse plug-ins in 
> general.
> http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-PDE-does-plugins/PDE-intro.html
> http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-Plug-in-architecture/plugin_architecture.html 
>
> http://www.eclipse.org/articles/viewArticle/ViewArticle2.html
> http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2005/02/09/eclipse.html
>
>
> Embedding Swing in a plug-in is a specialty topic that requires some 
> special handling.
>
> Hope this helps,
>     Eric