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How to launch an external program within Eclipse [message #277549]

Mon, 13 December 2004 11:28

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: gj.puredge.com

I would like to write a plugin that will contain an external editor program
as a tab in a multipage editor.

This is not the same as launching an external program from eclipse but
having that program run "within" eclipse wrapped in a plugin.

Has anyone ever tried this?

Thanks

Re: How to launch an external program within Eclipse [message #277552 is a reply to message #277549]

Mon, 13 December 2004 11:55

Eclipse User

The Ant integration can launch Ant within the same JRE as Eclipse

Darins

"Gary J" <gj@puredge.com> wrote in message
news:cpkfv6$jd$1@www.eclipse.org...
>I would like to write a plugin that will contain an external editor program
> as a tab in a multipage editor.
>
> This is not the same as launching an external program from eclipse but
> having that program run "within" eclipse wrapped in a plugin.
>
> Has anyone ever tried this?
>
> Thanks
>
>

Re: How to launch an external program within Eclipse [message #277620 is a reply to message #277549]

Tue, 14 December 2004 09:56

Eclipse User

Hi Gary,

You should look into SWT's OLE support (this is of course a win32-only
solution). To see this in action you can import a Word or PowerPoint file
into eclipse and then open it in-place.

If you want to pursue this then the following resources should be helpful,
and any questions regarding the use of OLE should be asked on the
eclipse.platform.swt newsgroup:

http://eclipse.org/articles/Article-ActiveX%20Support%20in%2 0SWT/ActiveX%20Support%20in%20SWT.html
http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.swt.sni ppets/src/org/eclipse/swt/snippets/Snippet123.java?rev=HEAD& amp;content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.swt.sni ppets/src/org/eclipse/swt/snippets/Snippet81.java?rev=HEAD&a mp;content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.swt.sni ppets/src/org/eclipse/swt/snippets/Snippet157.java?rev=HEAD& amp;content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup

Grant

"Gary J" <gj@puredge.com> wrote in message
news:cpkfv6$jd$1@www.eclipse.org...
> I would like to write a plugin that will contain an external editor
program
> as a tab in a multipage editor.
>
> This is not the same as launching an external program from eclipse but
> having that program run "within" eclipse wrapped in a plugin.
>
> Has anyone ever tried this?
>
> Thanks
>
>

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