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[gmt-dev] FW: [Ptolemy] Re: running Swing inside Eclipse

fyi - this appeared in the Ptolemy Research mailing list.
Ed

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Hylands [mailto:cxh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 9:57 PM
> To: ptresearch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Ptolemy] Re: running Swing inside Eclipse
> 
> 
> fyi - this appeared in the soot mailing list.
> -Christopher
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> 
> 
> From: Derek Rayside <drayside@xxxxxxx>
> To: Manu Sridharan <manu_s@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: running Swing inside Eclipse
> Cc: Ondrej LHOTAK <olhotak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Eric Bodden 
> <eric@xxxxxxxxx>,
>     "'Soot'" <soot-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 15:08:40 -0400 (EDT)
> 
> It is possible to run Swing inside Eclipse on Windows, 
> although this is 
> not officially supported.  It does work reasonably well, and if you 
> restrict yourself to graphics (ie, no widgets) it's not visually 
> distinguishable.  
> 
> I used this mechanism to get Shrimp (an information 
> visualization tool)
> to work inside of Eclipse, which is discussed in my CASCON 2001 paper
> "Integrating SHriMP with the IBM WebSphere Studio Workbench" and the
> journal version of it "Visualizing flow diagrams in WebSphere Studio
> using SHriMP Views".  You probably don't want to read those papers 
> because they're mostly about flow diagrams, but here's what 
> you want to 
> know:
> 
>     - it doesn't work on JDK 1.4 due to some change made by Sun 
>     - the API is undocumented and based on undocumented Sun API 
>     - there may be deadlock problems (but I haven't had any)
>     - Windows only
>     
> Basically, it's one method:
> 
> Panel org.eclipse.swt.internal.awt.win32.SWT_AWT.new_Panel(Composite)
> 
> The new_Panel method has one parameter, an SWT Composite object, and
> it returns an AWT Panel object. The awt Panel is contained within the
> swt Composite, and is constructed using a WEmbeddedFrame from Sun's
> internal package sun.awt.windows. Sun has changed this internal code
> in jdk 1.4, and so this undocumented Eclipse mechanism does not work
> with that version.
> 
> The other thing that you want to know is that Swing/AWT has a separate
> event queue from SWT.  This can lead to some complication if your
> Swing/AWT stuff is fancy.  Shrimp does some programmatic manipulation
> of the display when it starts, and one has to ensure that this happens
> after SWT has initialized the display.  The solution to this
> particular problem is to put an event on the tail of one queue that
> puts an event on the tail of the other queue, which generates an event
> that actually does something.  That way everything gets initialized
> first.  The details of how we did this are in our papers.
> 
> 
> 
> On 23 May 2003, Manu Sridharan wrote:
> 
> > A possible start for creating the clickable dot graph in Eclipse is
> > Grappa, also from the AT&T Graphviz project:
> > 
> > http://www.research.att.com/~john/Grappa/
> > 
> > It renders a graph laid out by dot in a Swing widget using 
> Java2D, with
> > context menus on nodes and everything; it's really nice.  
> One would have
> > to get rid of the Swing, but it looks like there may be support for
> > Java2D in Eclipse:
> > 
> > http://www.holongate.org/j2d/index.html
> > 
> > Might not be too much work to get this all going...too bad 
> I won't have
> > time to do it for a while.
> > 
> > -Manu
> > 
> > On Fri, 2003-05-23 at 10:23, Ondrej LHOTAK wrote:
> > > In Soot 2.0, we're adding LinkTags. These can be attached to any
> > > statement, and are links to some other statement, 
> possibly in another
> > > class. In Eclipse, you can click on them to go to the 
> target statement.
> > > Our first use of the tags will be for call graph 
> information, so that
> > > will give similar functionality to what you have in Janalyzer.
> > > 
> > > I had a look at Janalyzer, and one thing that I really 
> liked was the
> > > star-shaped graphical call graph browser (I don't know how best to
> > > describe it, but hopefully you know what I mean). I think 
> something like
> > > this would be nice in Eclipse, and we don't currently 
> have anything
> > > like this. So, if you're planning to integrate something 
> like that into
> > > Eclipse, I think it would be very useful.
> > > 
> > > One of the other things that we've talked about is 
> getting a control
> > > flow graph representation into Eclipse. Soot has some 
> code to dump out
> > > a CFG as input to the "dot" graph drawing tool, which 
> then draws the
> > > graph. We generally use dot to produce postscript, but it 
> seems Eclipse
> > > doesn't support that; however, dot has various other 
> output formats
> > > that might be more suitable. If someone were to implement 
> support for
> > > displaying (possible clickable) arbitrary dot graphs in 
> Eclipse, I think
> > > that would be very useful. It could be used for a variety 
> of things,
> > > including both call graphs and control flow graphs.
> > > 
> > > Ondrej
> > > 
> > > On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 03:30:32PM +0100, Eric Bodden wrote:
> > > > Hi!
> > > > 
> > > > Just wanted to tell you that we have released our 
> static analysis tool
> > > > Janalyzer, which we developed using SOOT as a 
> university project. The
> > > > program is still being developed further at Sourceforge 
> but however we
> > > > have released a first stable version.
> > > > Suggestions are always welcome as well as volunteers to 
> help with
> > > > further coding. We also thought about integrating that 
> into an IDE like
> > > > Eclipse. Now I got to know that SOOT already is being 
> integrated there.
> > > > What do you think - would it be worthwhile adding graph 
> display like we
> > > > provide it in our tool?
> > > > 
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > Eric
> > > > 
> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > Eric Bodden
> > > > CS-DIP full time student @ University of Kent at Canterbury
> > > > UKC internal phone: 5095
> > > > ICQ UIN: 12656220
> > > > Website: http://www.bodden.de
> > > > PGP key: http://www.bodden.de/pub_key.asc
> > > > 
> > 
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