The XUI Eclipse∞ plug-in is a clone of the Kalideoscope plug-in for NetBeans. It is still in an early development phase and many of the main features have been implemented.


Eclipse Plug-in

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Using the Eclipse plug-in

The Eclipse plug-in while usable is at an early stage of development and therefore there are some limitations that require additional steps when editing a XUI project.

Using the Eclipse plug-in you can create new projects and new pages. A new project can be created from the File | New | Other dialog, and a new page can be created.

If you all ready have a project first open the project.xui file as it causes the project to initialize.

A page can be edited by right click and choosing Open with | XUI Page Editor

The property sheets associated with the page designer are not yet fully coordinated with the designer or the Kalideoscope perspective, and therefore you may have to open the Kalideoscope perspective manually. See Window | Open Perspective | Other.... You may also have to choose to show the views associated with the perspective, see Window | Show View | Other | Kalideoscope

Building the Eclipse plug-in

To build the Eclipse plug-in pull the entire SVN tree and then open the /svn/kalideoscope/branches/xui31 workspace.

Once the workspace has been opened you may have to resolve some library paths, if for instance your JDK is installed in a different directory than the one used to build the workspace. To resolve the library references, right click on the Kalideoscope project root in the package explorer and then go to the 'Java Build Path', and correct any references.

IMPORTANT: If you get other errors when building make sure you refresh the folders, particularly if you have previously built the plug-in on your system

see also Eclipse FAQ

Setting up database table binding using the Visualizer the Eclipse SQL Explorer plugin

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