[forge-dev] Forge 2 Addon List in Eclipse

[Lincoln Baxter, III]

Ok great.


On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Koen Aers <koen.aers at gmail.com> wrote:

> The registered commands that bring up the current Forge popups already
> appear in the Quick Access by default.
> And surely there is a good amount of code that can be reused to improve
> the looks of the current popup.
>
> Cheers,
> Koen
>
> Op 30-mei-2013, om 17:01 heeft Lincoln Baxter, III het volgende geschreven:
>
> We can add one item to the Quick Access that brings up the Forge Menu.
> WDYT?
>
> Also, can we re-use any of that internal quick-access code to make our
> lives easier?
>
>
> On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Koen Aers <koen.aers at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I have actually looked into this and tapping into the Quick Access is not
>> possible. All the providers that contribute to this are hardcoded into the
>> search dialog. Moreover, all of this code is unfortunately in internal
>> packages with restricted access so it's not even possible to do any dirty
>> tricks.
>> Mimic the Cmd+3 popup style seems the most reasonable thing to do. It
>> doesn't solve the issue of Forge not being easily spotted though…
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Koen
>>
>> Op 30-mei-2013, om 16:06 heeft Lincoln Baxter, III het volgende
>> geschreven:
>>
>> > Cmd+3 was and is pretty - why not just mimic its UI and have that show
>> up when pressing the command shortcut for Forge ?
>>
>> That's what we want to do, but I think George is looking for ideas on how
>> to get started with that. Regarding lazy loading, we have some ideas for
>> that, but we have some other priority architectural items to do first :)
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Max Rydahl Andersen <
>> max.andersen at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> > Hi Max and forge-dev subscribers,
>>> >
>>> > I was discussing with Lincoln and we reached an agreement that the
>>> > current popup list that shows in the center of the IDE is not visually
>>> > that nice ( http://imgur.com/JvE8a9j).
>>>
>>> How about fixing it so it becomes nice ? :)
>>>
>>> > It would be nice if we have something like
>>> > http://i.imgur.com/LyibyTP.png, however I recall that Max explicitly
>>> > mentioned that the Quick Access feature should not be used in any way,
>>> > but that we might have something like that available. I've been digging
>>> > into the Eclipse API and also found no way to reuse that, unless we
>>> > (somehow) register the wizards dinamically using the
>>> > "org.eclipse.ui.newWizards" extension point, but since I am not an
>>> > Eclipse expert, I may be missing something here.
>>>
>>> Yes, it is iterating eclipse UI constructs, things like commands, views,
>>> perspectives and wizards.
>>>
>>> I don't think its a good thing nor know if it is even possible to
>>> register all forge operations as commands...
>>>
>>> one requirement of commands I beleive is that they should be defined in
>>> xml so they can be loaded without
>>> loading the plugin before command is actually executed. Forge currently
>>> has so notion - everything is loaded; no lazy loading.
>>>
>>> > My question is: Does it looks like a reasonable option to develop an UI
>>> > in the Forge 2 Eclipse plugin like Quick Access ?
>>>
>>> As long as you dont require it to be in the menu bar taking up more
>>> space i'm fine :)
>>>
>>> > Do you guys see any other much attractive UI option in Eclipse to
>>> > display these Wizards ?
>>>
>>> Cmd+3 was and is pretty - why not just mimic its UI and have that show
>>> up when pressing the command shortcut for Forge ?
>>>
>>> > Just reminding that these wizards are dynamic (they are built based on
>>> > the Addons installed in Forge 2), therefore they don't exist as an
>>> > Wizard class (hence not allowing adding them directly into the
>>> plugin.xml).
>>> > The latest code can be found in
>>> >
>>> https://github.com/forge/jbosstools-forge/tree/master/plugins/org.jboss.tools.forge.ui.ext
>>>
>>> --
>>> /max
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>>
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