[news.eclipse.platform] Re: Synchronizing open editors on the same file

["Marc E" <marc.esher@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Which wizard? Simply looks like the wizard needs some updating.
>
> Dani


Dani, this is the "Plugin with an Editor" Wizard that appears during Plug-in 
project creation.


I'm wondering: do any of you know of documentation or otherwise that offers 
guidance and gotchas on converting a DocumentProvider from extending 
FileDocumentProvider to TextFileDocumentProvider? I have two books on 
Eclipse programming, and neither of them touch on this much at all.

thanks.

marc





> > I"m sure there's quite a good reason.  For example, I don't see anything 
> > immediately obvious for partitioning, so maybe that's it. Not sure.
> >
> > Anyway.... looks like I at least found the path to go down. I sure was 
> > hoping for a 3-line "oh, dude, just add this listenener..." kind of 
> > answer, which so often seems to be the case.
> >
> > Time to get my game face on!
> >
> > marc
> >
> >
> > "Eric Rizzo" <eclipse-news@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
> > news:gncqno$u5d$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > On 2/16/2009 1:10 PM, Marc E wrote:
> > > > All,
> > > > I'm interested in contributing this feature to an open source project
> > > > based on Eclipse. I have done a fair amount of plugin programming but
> > > > never any Editor programming.
> > > > Basically, the editor in this project doesn't currently support
> > > > synchronization between two open editors on the same file. For example,
> > > > if I have any text file, and I open it in the Default Text Editor, then
> > > > choose "New Editor" and modify that file in one editor, the other 
> > > > editor
> > > > automatically reflects those changes. I'd like to add that behavior 
> > > > into
> > > > the editor in this project.
> > > > Can someone point me down the right path?
> > >
> > > I think this is more of a fundamental design problem than a particular 
> > > code problem. The editor in question must be using some kind of backing 
> > > model that can be shared between editor instances. If it does not have 
> > > some kind og in-memory model that is sharable, I'm not sure if you can 
> > > do what you want.
> > > If EMF is involved, this is quite doable. But if not I would first look 
> > > at the code of the basic text editor to see how they are doing it. Try 
> > > org.eclipse.ui.editors.text.TextEditor
> > >
> > > Hope this helps,
> > > Eric