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Dynamic annotation type color [message #1315144]

Fri, 25 April 2014 20:36

David Pfeffer

Messages: 2
Registered: April 2014

Junior Member

Hi,

I'm working on an eclipse plugin where the user should be able to categorise java source code lines of a project. The categories are added by the user and are project dependent.

I added my own Marker with an additional category attribute to distinguish the category. I used the annotationTypes and markerAnnotationSpecification extension point to highlight the source code part which belongs to a category and which doesn't.

However, now I got stuck. I need to allow the user to have a different highlight color for each category. Am I right that this setup it is not capable of doing that?

I would appreciate any suggestions on how I could solve that porblem.

Thanks,
David

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Dynamic annotation type color [message #1401947 is a reply to message #1315144]

Wed, 16 July 2014 09:38

David Pfeffer

Messages: 2
Registered: April 2014

Junior Member

Looks like this is currently not possible to achieve.

I figured out that I would need a custom IDrawingStrategy implementation to influence the drawing of Annotations. However, currently it's not possible to add custom DrawingStrategies via an extension point (Bug #51498). There is a comment (in SourceViewerDecorationSupport.java) waiting since ages to get fixed.

...
protected AnnotationPainter  [More ...] createAnnotationPainter() {
    AnnotationPainter painter= new AnnotationPainter(fSourceViewer, fAnnotationAccess);

    /*
     * XXX:
     * Could provide an extension point for drawing strategies,
     * see: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=51498
     */

    painter.addDrawingStrategy(AnnotationPreference.STYLE_NONE, fgNullStrategy);
    painter.addDrawingStrategy(AnnotationPreference.STYLE_IBEAM, fgIBeamStrategy);
    ...
}
...

I tried to force in my own IDrawingStrategy implementation via reflection as mentioned in the bug report comments. However this isn't a perfect solution.

Suggestions are still appreciated.

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