CODEWITHSUNDEEP
intellij-ideaintellij-plugin
user3408654
user3408654

Reputation: 301

How to insert visual elements inside the Java text editor of IntelliJ?

I'd like to add extra visual elements inside the Java text editor of IntelliJ, more specifically on top of classes and methods declarations. Things like indicators and links.

The best example is what Microsoft has done in Visual Studio with what they call CodeLens:

Visual Studio CodeLens

The closest solution I can think of is using Line Markers (displayed in the gutter) but it's far from the user experience I want to have.

Are there any IntelliJ plugins that have done this before?

Any pointers to give me somewhere to start?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 133

Answers (1)

yole
yole

Reputation: 97258

This is not supported by the IntelliJ IDEA editor API. You can try using a JLayeredPane to do custom painting on top of an editor, but this would be fairly difficult to implement and fragile.

Upvotes: 2

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