Hi Trevor. Your idea is similar to what I am doing for the web based UI (in fact, the idea came from setting up various email filters - rather watching my wife do it).

I think a SWT based one is a great idea, text based editors are of course always needed when the developers have to dive in and debug ;) (we all love a good text editor !), but certainly a more point and click rich editor is needed.

It would need to read/write to/from a text based DRL ideally (at least thats my thoughts). Let me know how you would like to contribute.

As for exampels - you mean SWT examples?

Michael.

On 10/26/06, Trevor Pocock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
My aim is to provide some users with a simple rule editor in their eclipse
client along the lines of outlook's email rules. Editing the DRL file directly
is not an option. A DSL would provide (a fairly limited set of) available rules
to the client, and the user has actions like
  New/Edit/Delete Rule
  and the ability to define the values of each {token}
At first glance it looks like the editor has to work purely on the text level,
ie it reads and rewrites the drl as a text file.  The editor would maybe need
additional content info for each DSL token.

Firstly is this a good idea or am i making more work for myself than i need?
Secondly is there an example somewhere out there that may help me?

T


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