| Contribution of enhancements and bug fixes to the Web Page Editor [message #504194] |
Thu, 17 December 2009 11:03  |
 Vasanth Velusamy
Messages: 31
Registered: July 2009 |
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Hi,
We, at Active Endpoints, are using a custom version of the web page
editor (org.eclipse.jst.pagedesigner plugin). We would like to
contribute the enhancements and bug fixes we made, back to the project.
Following is a brief summary of the changes we have made.
If one or more of these proposals are acceptable, can you please let me
know so that I can provide more details (use cases, patch, ...).
New Features / Enhancements:
(E1) Added an extension point that allows contribution of additional css
declaration styles. Earlier, if there is no css styling provided in the
html document, the default values from
org/eclipse/jst/pagedesigner/css2/html4.css were used. This extension
point allows extension contributors to provide additional css styling
(before looking for default values in html4.css).
(E2) Added an extension point that provides adapters to the HTMLEditor.
They are used in HTMLEditor.getAdapter(Class) method. This allows great
flexibility in making the html editor adapt to custom requirements.
(E3) Added an extension point that allows contributors to perform custom
operations when the editor is about to show preview (in the Preview
tab). Contributors are allowed to modify the preview content and/or
perform other operations.
- One extenstion contribution is to change any relative file references
in the html content to be absolute paths. Since the preview document is
created in the temp folder, any relative references will not be
available. Converting the references to be absolute paths makes them
available during preview. This is useful when users include any custom
images/stylesheets/javascript resources (with relative paths) in their
html document.
(E4) Added an extension point that allows contribution of drop target
listeners on the designer
(org.eclipse.jst.pagedesigner.editors.SimpleGraphicalEditor) 's viewer.
This allows for drag-n-drop of any arbitrary objects onto the editor.
(E5) Exposed the parent IEditorPart in
org.eclipse.jst.pagedesigner.viewer.HTMLGraphicalViewer through a public
getter method.
(E6) Made the web page editor to be the default editor for html files
(change in plugin.xml).
Bug fixes:
(B1) If there is no value for a css property, in the html document, made
org.eclipse.jst.pagedesigner.css2.property.BorderStyleMeta to return
null instead of ICSSPropertyID.VAL_NONE. This allows the defaults in
html4.css to be used.
(B2) In the web page editor's palette, made the JSP drawer to not be
displayed for any html (*.html, *.htm) files (since they are appropriate
only for jsp files).
The changes are against org.eclipse.jst.pagedesigner version 1.1.0.v20080605
Thanks,
Vasanth
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