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Sgotenks
Sgotenks

Reputation: 1733

Develop a plugin editor for eclipse

I have a question for you. My teacher proposed a couple of thesis to me. Basically to develop a plugin for eclipse. There are 2 options:

1)An editor for A-SPL language with syntax highlighting, auto completation of the cose, errors detection and so on........to help people that need to use S-APL

2)An editor to help people to design GUI in S-APL......something like a framework where you can drag widgets and there is a kind of automatic completation of the code....

The thesis should last 4 months......i should not implement everything but make a kind of prototype that maybe in the future someone will finish and make properly work.

I never did something like this so i would like to know if it is difficult, which skills are needed, which languages i should know to create eclipse plugins (for example i know java and python) and so on......to figure out if it is something i can do.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 527

Answers (2)

Will
Will

Reputation: 6286

You'll need Java for Eclipse plugins. You need to read a book / the eclipse plugin wiki about Eclipse architecture as it's critical to know the paradigms in use.

There's an example XML plugin editor that you can create from the 'New Plugin' wizard which would be a good starting point for the first option.

good luck. :)

Upvotes: 1

Fabian Steeg
Fabian Steeg

Reputation: 45684

I'd suggest to look into the Xtext (for a textual editor) and Graphiti (for a graphical editor) projects.

Upvotes: 3

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