then I had written my own CF plug-in and was working with several other
open source plug-ins. All of them stopped working when I moved to
Eclipse 3. I looked into the problems and saw that important parts of
the API had changed.
-Matt
On Jan 24, 2004, at 1:50 PM, Rob Rohan wrote:
> I started with the built in "editor only" plug-in selection and wrote
> everything else from scratch. It was based on XML. And again, the
> syntax
> highlighting is so-so - the code completion stuff seems to work pretty
> well.
>
> Where are you getting your eclipse 3 information? everything I am
> finding is not specifying (so I assume its the 2 API). I don't think
> it'll be that hard to move really as it only took me a day to write it
> (and a day to enter all the tags, attributes, and fuctions - which I
> wont have to do again - for a while anyway hehehe)
>
> On Sat, 2004-01-24 at 10:37, Matt Liotta wrote:
> > Eclipse 3 is a fair bit different. If your starting point was the
> > example HTML plug-in then things are going to be tough moving to
> > Eclipse 3.
> >
> > -Matt
> >
> >
> > On Jan 23, 2004, at 11:16 PM, Rob Rohan wrote:
> >
> > > As far as I know it's the 2 API (I have eclipse 2.1.2) - basically
> I
> > > just needed *something* as I am using JEdit right now and, while
> it's a
> > > great editor, I needed a bit more.
> > >
> > > How different is the 3 API from the 2? There are only a total of 14
> > > classes so a port shouldn't be all that difficult.
> > >
> > > On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 19:37, Matt Liotta wrote:
> > > > If this plug-in is written against the Eclipse 3 API then I would
> > > love
> > > > 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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