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Embed Eclipse editor into Java Swing application? [message #332036]

Wed, 01 October 2008 12:48

Eclipse User

Is it possible to embed a text editor into a Java Swing application?
More specific, I want to embed the XML editor of WTP into a Java Swing
application. The integration with the Preferences and with the Problems
View is not required, I only need the XML editor with code completion
functionality as "standalone" component to use it in a Swing-based
application.

Re: Embed Eclipse editor into Java Swing application? [message #332050 is a reply to message #332036]

Wed, 01 October 2008 14:59

Eclipse User

Jörg Kiegeland wrote:
> Is it possible to embed a text editor into a Java Swing application?
> More specific, I want to embed the XML editor of WTP into a Java Swing
> application. The integration with the Preferences and with the Problems
> View is not required, I only need the XML editor with code completion
> functionality as "standalone" component to use it in a Swing-based
> application.

Others can add their 2 cents, but the short answer is no. Most eclipse
editors depend on a lot of services running, including the workbench.

You can embed Swing controls in SWT composites, and could probably
display SWT Composites on top of Swing frames with some work, but there
is a lot of infrastructure (in workbench window, workbench, and platform
text) that go into having an editor work.

PW

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Re: Embed Eclipse editor into Java Swing application? [message #332097 is a reply to message #332050]

Thu, 02 October 2008 15:21

Eclipse User

Paul Webster wrote:
> Others can add their 2 cents, but the short answer is no. Most eclipse
> editors depend on a lot of services running, including the workbench.

Yeah, I don't see a way to embed it. I think it may be possible to set
up a minimal RCP application with the editor included. Since
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=176492 the XML editor is
now a separate feature.

But it would take a lot of work to hide the rest of the platform you
don't care about. And you would still have to launch a new window from
your Swing app.

Anyone tried something like this before?

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