Level: Intermediate Prashant Deva (pdeva@placidsystems.com), Founder, Placid Systems
17 Oct 2006 This tutorial -- second in this "Create a commercial-quality Eclipse IDE" series -- shows how to create the UI of the IDE. It examines the editor user interface framework that Eclipse offers, as well as the SourceViewerConfiguration class and all the various classes related to it, used to implement and configure your IDE's UI.
In this tutorial
This "Create a commercial-quality Eclipse IDE" series demonstrates what it takes to create integrated development environments (IDEs) as Eclipse plug-ins for any existing programming languages or your own. It walks you through the two most important parts of the IDE -- the core and the user interface (UI) -- and takes a detailed look at the challenges associated with designing and implementing them. This series uses ANTLR Studio IDE as a case study and examines its internals to help you understand what it takes to create a professional commercial-level IDE. Code samples help you follow the concepts and understand how to use them in your own IDE.
Part 1 introduces the architecture of an IDE and shows how to create the IDE's core layer. Part 2 shows how to implement the UI component of your IDE. Part 3 discusses additional UI elements Eclipse provides to enhance your editor.
Prerequisites
This tutorial assumes a basic knowledge of creating plug-ins for Eclipse and using the Eclipse Plug-in Development Environment (PDE).
System requirements
To run the code samples in this tutorial, you need a copy of the Eclipse Software Development Kit (SDK) running Java™ Virtual Machine (JVM) V1.4 or later.
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