Colorer Library introduces it's new version for the Eclipse platform. Eclipse is a highly configurable and extensible IDE, written on Java. It provides a great API for plugging external components, allowing to use all it's powerful features. Colorer implements multiprogramming language editor for the Eclipse platform.
To install Colorer for Eclipse you must download
EclipseColorer-take5.x.x.x.zip
package. This package contains
Eclipse plugin with sources, packed Colorer's HRC database and
two versions of native library component - for Windows and Linux platforms.
It contains sources both for native part and top-level Colorer Java API.
Note, that it doesn't contains sources of the Colorer Library. If you want
to rebuild native part of the plugin, download latest Colorer Library
package.
Unpack content of plugin's package into %ECLIPSEHOME%/plugins/
folder and restart Eclipse. Make sure you've extracted
net.sf.colorer/colorer/
folder. It contains HRC database,
which is used by the plugin.
If you are already have Colorer-take5 Library, installed in your system
(f.e. from full library package version), you can delete colorer
directory and specify path to your catalog.xml
file with one of the
standard locations.
Colorer for Eclipse IDE supports:
You can use Windows/Preferences
menu option to open
Eclipse configuration dialog. Entry Colorer Library
contains
several options, managing Editor's look and feel.
These includes:
To use paired constructions matching, you can open a context menu, when the caret is placed on a paired region. There you can choose commands to find and position caret on the other pair, or to select all the text content between paired structures. These commands could be runned from toolbar buttons also.
If you want to customize icons used to display items in structure
tree (outline), place them in
eclipse\plugins\net.sf.colorer_x.x.x\icons\outline\<schemename>
and name as your regions (use existing files for example).
If you want to customize icon for your file type, copy <editor>
entry
under
<extension point="org.eclipse.ui.editors">
entry and replace
id, name, icon, extensions
attributes with your values.
EclipseColorer was tested with Eclipse v2.0.2, v2.1.0 M4 and RC1. However, there are some differences in these versions. For example, to manage Colorer's current line color in 2.1, you must disable line highlighting in global text editor settings. Also, there are some differences in Eclipse API. In particular, Colorer compiled with latest Eclipse can work with some bugs in previous version.