Re: [teiid-dev] CDK Toolkit Plugin Specifics

The idea of Custom Editor looks good to me. That way the user would have the flexibility to use the editor of choice. I shall proceed in this direction. On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 8:47 PM, Sanjay Chaudhuri <email2sanjayc(a)gmail.com > wrote: > The eclipse properties editor comes with 2 columns and that cannot be > changed; so we need to have a new custom editor which will be look like the > properties editor, however have 4 columns instead of 2. By default, we can > wire eclipse to open up ra.xml in our own custom editor, however users can > still open it up in default xml editor with the "Open With" option. If we > only need to address the porperties section, we can have a table with each > properties in each row. > > > On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Ramesh Reddy <rareddy(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > >> On Sun, 2009-10-25 at 17:51 -0500, Sanjay Chaudhuri wrote: >> > Ok; then to keep things very simple, we can have a simple editor which >> > potentially can be a table/tabletree like properties view; however >> > with 4 columns instead of 2, viz, key, value, type and description. I >> > bring up tabletree as an option, incase you want the hierarchy to be >> > visible, which I think can be important because the file is a xml and >> > I saw it having a good nested structure. >> > >> All properties are at the same level in the ra.xml file, since we are >> only dealing with properties section of the ra.xml, the tree is >> optional. Once we make it hierarchical don't you have to use XMLEditor >> instead of the Property editor? >> >> >> >