Emmanuel Lécharny wrote: > There is no 'getting started' guide, sadly :/
My opes were not too high, nobody likes writing documentation, it seems. Same issue here and everywhere... > First of all, you need to grok a bit about Eclipse development, if you > don't know a thing about it, then this is clearly the first step... I've written a few Eclipse plugins before and have a general understanding of the framework. One step closer to the interesting part. :-) > That being said, the part that 'decorates' the entries in the tree is in > the ldapbrowser.common plugin, more specifically in the > getImageByObjectClass class (see the getImageByObjectClass method). This > is where we select the image to expose accordingly to some hard coded > settings (see BrowserCommonPreferencesInitializer, > initializeDefaultPreferences() method). > > We should make those hard coded preferences part of the preferences, > like the value editors, which are handled by the > ValueEditorsPreferencePage class in the same plugin. Thanks a lot for those pointers, I'll see how far I get from there. > So to speak, the only code base you need to understand (at least > partially) is the ldapbrowser.common. We are still talking about around > 23 000 SLOCS ;-) Fall is the best time to get into stuff like this, I guess... :-)
