Re: Milestone 0.1 released

[Alex Blewitt]

On 27 May 2009, at 15:37, Jeffrey T Gilbert wrote:

> Nice! I've just finished up on an eclipse plugin project at work and
> would love to help on this if possible. I don't know that I have the
> chops in either eclipse programming or objective c to make a serious
> dent but I'd love to learn more about each.

Sorry it's taken a while to respond - things have been a little busy
(particularly with the upcoming Eclipse release). Thanks for the offer
of help, too; it's appreciated.

There's actually a number of things that aren't in ObjectivEClipse at
the moment; it's really just the basic compile-run-debug that comes
with CDT. What would be good is having a number of 'wishlist' items -
obviously biggies like refactoring, but also smaller ones as well like
the ability to edit PList objects would be useful. However, the issue
tracker doesn't have anything in it other than stuff I've filed, which
means there's a very limited set of things to do. You can of course
file more issues :-)

Having said that, a standalone component is the ability to edit PList
files. These are Apple files but which are used in every Mac
application, and documented in the 'plist' man page:

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/Manpages/man5/plist.5.html

It's essentially an XML document. We could have a split-tab editor
(like with the XML editor that comes from the WTP project, or the Ant
build.xml editor), one of which displays the unadulterated source and
the other tab could have a more PDE-Forms type look. Then there's also
binary plist support (though whether it's easier to use 'plutil' to
convert from binary to text rather than trying to read/write the text
is another matter).

That would be a good start into learning how Editors work in Eclipse
along with the code underneath.

> Downloading this when i get home!

Did it work? I've not heard of any feedback (positive/negative) about
this yet.

Alex