On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 17:26, Piotr Dorobisz <piotr.dorob...@erlang-solutions.com> wrote: > Today I've been thinking about different ways of configuring tracing. I think > that it doesn't make sense to create extra launch configuration because > Erlang is different than Java. I mean that if you want to trace node you can > always connect to it without stopping it first and recompiling with special > options or whatever. I thought that we could add two new views: > 1. View containing control panel using which user could define filters. For > example there could be such widgets as: > - edit field for editing tracing patterns > - list of patterns which are being used > - buttons for adding and deleting patterns from list > 2. View containing sequence diagram > To make it more useful I could create new perspective which would contain > those views. > And now, whenever user decides to trace running program he/she just inputs > new filters and that's all. Does it make sense?:)
Seems like a good idea. > Btw, I'm rather new to plugin development so I'd like to ask something: as I > wrote before I'd like to create some kind of control panel with widgets like > buttons, text fields, lists etc. But is it possible to create an eclipse view > with such elements? I suppose I should use JFace, am I right? Are there any > good examples for it? It depends. JFace only covers some widget types, otherwise you need to go with SWT. Examples are at http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.jface.snippets. Some introduction at http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/views/opensource/libraryview.jsp?search%5Fby=gentle+introduction+swt+jface. regards, Vlad ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Erlide-devel mailing list Erlide-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/erlide-devel
