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@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@redhat.com> 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?