to join the Sourceforge project when it is ready. On the other hand, if
it is against the Eclipse 2 API then I would advise you to look at the
Eclipse 3 API and there are important changes there. I dropped the work
I did for my CF plug-in against the Eclipse 2 API in favor of new
development against the Eclipse 3 API. However, I haven't made much
progress on that front.
-Matt
On Jan 23, 2004, at 9:04 PM, Rob Rohan wrote:
> I just finished a very basic coldfusion eclipse plug-in. The syntax
> highlighting and code completion are so-so, but better then nothing.
>
> It works on Mac, Linux, and Windows (with jre1.4)
>
> to activate code completion type <cf and it will show all the cfmx tags
> (the attribute part works from time to time - bad rule somewhere), and
> after you type a function it'll tell you the syntax for the function -
> cooler still it'll actually tell you the return type :)
>
> To install the plug-in do the following (after you download eclipse of
> coursehttp://eclipse.org):
>
> 1. Go to Help/Software Updates/Update Manager
> 2. In the lower left box (marked Feature Update) right click (control
> click on Mac) select "new" then site bookmark
> 3. add Name: cfeclipse URL:http://cfeclipse.rohanclan.com click finish
> 4. that should have added a new item to the tree. In the tree, open the
> cfeclipse, then Other, then click on com.rohanclan.coldfusion-feature
> 5. in the preview window (upper right) it should now list the plug-in
> details - click the button that says install now.
>
> When it's all done the framework will want to restart. After it has,
> the
> new plug-in will be associated with cfm, cfml, and cfc files. Just open
> any of those files and the plug-in will kick in.
>
> There is nothing fancy about the plug-in just yet - its just the
> editor.
> It only does syntax highlighting and code completion (mostly anyway),
> but hopefully as time allows it will do more.
>
> I am waiting for sourceforge.net to give me a project space and I'll up
> load the code, if anyone wants to help they are more than welcome. I am
> doing it under LGPL.
>
> Cheers
>
> --
> Vale,
> Rob
>
> Luxuria immodica insaniam creat.
> Sanam formam viatae conservate!
>
> http://www.rohanclan.com
> http://treebeard.sourceforge.net
> http://ashpool.sourceforge.net
>
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