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Embedding an editor in a view [message #1385148]

Wed, 04 June 2014 15:24

Dwight Naylor

Messages: 23
Registered: June 2012

Junior Member

Hi There,

I don't think I've been able to find a viable answer for this question, but let me know if I'm re-inventing the wheel (or if I'm just in the wrong section!)

I'm currently developing a plugin. I'm using Xtext to do some parsing, auto-complete, and error-checking to some code the user can enter, but I want the xtext editor to be embedded within its own view, without being linked to a file, but with all the built-in features of the editor:
What I have:
index.php/fa/18209/0/

Where I want it:
index.php/fa/18210/0/

The last trace of accomplishment I can find on this frontier is this post from 2005:
http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/t/92893/
Unfortunately, all of the classes he uses have since been removed.

There are (somewhat) similar posts here, without resolutions though:
https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/m/304012/?srch=embed#msg_304012
https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/m/289605/?srch=embed#msg_289605

I've gotten as far as accessing the editor I want; within my views' createPartControl method I have an instance of an xtextEditor created, but I don't know how to put it into the view.

Could anybody give me pointers on where to start doing this now? Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
-Dwight Naylor

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Re: Embedding an editor in a view [message #1385157 is a reply to message #1385148]

Wed, 04 June 2014 16:06

Felix Dorner

Messages: 295
Registered: March 2012

Senior Member

On 04/06/2014 17:24, Dwight Naylor wrote:
> Hi There,
>
> I don't think I've been able to find a viable answer for this question, but let me know if I'm re-inventing the wheel (or just in the wrong section!)
>
> I'm currently developing a plugin. I'm using Xtext to do some parsing, auto-complete, and error-checking to some code the user can enter, but I want the xtext editor to be embedded within its own view, without being linked to a file, but with all the built-in features of the editor:
> What I have:
>
>
> Where I want it:
>
>
> The last trace of accomplishment I can find on this frontier is this post from 2005:
> http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/t/92893/
> Unfortunately, all of the classes he uses have since been removed.
>
> There are (somewhat) similar posts here, without resolutions though:
> https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/m/304012/?srch=embed#msg_304012
> https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/m/289605/?srch=embed#msg_289605
>
> I've gotten as far as accessing the editor I want; within my views' createPartControl method I have an instance of an xtextEditor created, but I don't know how to put it into the view.
>
> Could anybody give me pointers on where to start doing this now? Any help is greatly appreciated.

Better ask Xtext questions on the TMF newsgroup next time.

You can look at how it's done in OCL, they have an EmbeddedXtextEditor,
no files involved.

here, for example:
https://eclipse.googlesource.com/ocl/org.eclipse.ocl/+/master/examples/org.eclipse.ocl.examples.xtext.console/src/org/eclipse/ocl/examples/xtext/console/xtfo/EmbeddedXtextEditor.java

Felix

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