[news.eclipse.tools.jdt] Re: Using CompilationUnitEditor without a .java

[David Coppit <david@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Daniel Megert wrote:

> > I'm implementing an editor for Java source code, where the source is 
> > unpacked from another file. As a result, there is no .java resource in 
> > the project. Can someone give me some guidance on how best to set up a 
> > CompilationUnitEditor to code from a buffer in memory?
>
> It should be sufficient to write your own editor input and then use 
> IDE.openEditor(page, editorInput, editorID). What stopped this from 
> working?

My editor is being opened in a page of a MultiPageEditor. openEditor is 
for a top-level editor. I did try what you suggested anyway, and I did 
get syntax highlighting, but not the annotations ruler.

So I gave up on an in-memory editor input. Now I create temporary files 
in the workspace, and that seems to work well. I'll end up filtering 
them out of the workspace view so that the user doesn't notice.

David