Best-Practice: Developing a Model-Based Editor - Editor-Implementation

Developing a Model-Based Editor - TOC

1. Intro
2. Preparation
3. Editor-Inputs
4. Editor-Implementation

TBD

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Best-Practice: Developing a Model-Based Editor - Editor-Inputs

Developing a Model-Based Editor - TOC

1. Intro
2. Preparation
3. Editor-Inputs
4. Editor-Implementation

TBD

4 comments March 3rd, 2006

Best-Practice: Developing a Model-Based Editor - Preparation

In our example we want to provide an simple editor for the object org.javawiki.model.SubProcess and a MultiPageEditor with two pages for the object org.javawiki.model.Step. At first we define the extension points. The assignment which object-signature is linked with a special editor is realized in the EditorContributor. This class knows the correct editor-id (specified in your plugin.xml) to a special Object.

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Best-Practice: Developing a Model-Based Editor - Intro

A very important element of the Eclipse-Framework are editors. Editors are among views the fundamental element for user-interaction.
Eclipse provides a wonderful framework for creating editors with a reserved area (the “editor area”), where you don’t have to care for common behaviour. Just implement the contribution of the input and provide an implementation for saving the edited input…

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