Creating a new Aptana Editor
From Aptana Development
This page gives an overview of the steps involved to add a new editor to the Aptana IDE.
Overview
- Create a new plug-in project to hold the editor and its supporting classes. These steps are detailed in Creating a plugin.
- Tell Eclipse what file types we are interested in and what classes to instantiate when those types are opened in the IDE. This involves the definition an Editor extension as described in Creating an Editor extension.
- The IDE recognizes the editor type, but we do not have a convenient way to create new files. This requires the definition of file wizards as described in Creating a file wizard.
- The last step in this tutorial adds colorizing. This involves the definition of a lexer grammar and a minimal parser. We also need to setup color preferences to allow the user to define their own colors. These steps and more are detailed in Colorizing an Editor.
Related Topics
- Creating a plugin
- Creating an Editor extension
- Creating a file wizard
- Creating file wizard extensions
- Defining file wizard content
- Creating an Aptana Editor class
