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Re: [platform-ui-dev] Expression editor contribution

Hi Christian,

my impression is that such a UI is a bit to complex for the average
Eclipse IDE users. I suggest to host is first within EASE to gain some
experience with it.

Best regards, Lars

On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 6:10 PM, Christian Pontesegger
<christian.pontesegger@xxxxxx> wrote:
>> what is the difference or enhancement to the PDE editor?
>>
> the PDE editor component cannot be reused. Expressions are nice as they can
> be used for all kinds of filtering. The contribution I am proposing is a
> reusable Component that allows users to build such expressions in the target
> application. Further extensions allow to add custom expressions.
>
> I do not intend to replace the PDE editor. The UI element I am thinking of
> targets end users that need to create filter expressions. Eg we could create
> filters for the Error view in future.
>
>> Related to that work might be that Simon Scholz is working on a way to
>> define Java classes as expressions via Bug 509429.
>
> I guess that work is not really related to mine.
>
> If it does not fit to the platform I will host it within EASE directly. For
> a Resource decorator contribution something like this would be required
> though.
>
>
> Christian
>
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