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... :-)

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