Hi Tom -- very good, thanks for the prompt response -- I'll go ahead and roll my own. I'll see also if I can (finally) become a committer and contribute it back!
Tamar On Nov 13, 2013, at 1:11 AM, Tom Schindl <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Tamar, > > As of now bare bone e4 does not have anything related to: > a) editors > b) filesystem views like Common Navigator > > Since NIO2 the Java-File-API has been greatly improved one could think > about working directly with this API instead of going through > core.resources. IIRC there John told me sometime ago that some one > ported the core.resources API to work with the Java one but I could be > wrong in this regard. > > Generally speaking I agree that the Eclipse Resource System with it's > project structure does not make a whole lot of sense in most RCP apps > but it might make much more sense to directly work with the filesystem APIs. > > Tom > > On 13.11.13 00:25, Cohen, Tamar (ARC-TI)[Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies > Inc. (SGT Inc.)] wrote: >> Hi e4-dev, >> >> Please let me know if there is a better newsgroup to post to. >> >> I am working on an e4 based RCP application and as part of it I want to >> provide the ability to create new files of my file type, and edit them with >> my editor. In the past, we have had to use Eclipse Resources (create >> eclipse projects and the like). >> >> I am wondering if we have addressed this yet in e4? I read about the >> Semantic File System stuff (which seems very cool and SHOULD have really >> been invented before Curiosity went to Mars …) but I think that there should >> be baked in support for having a view that reflects the file system (even if >> it's not always in sync and has a refresh button). >> >> Am I missing something? Is there already such a view or do I have to roll >> my own? >> >> Thanks much >> >> Tamar Cohen >> NASA Ames Research Center >> _______________________________________________ >> e4-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/e4-dev >> > > _______________________________________________ > e4-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/e4-dev _______________________________________________ e4-dev mailing list [email protected] https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/e4-dev
