Eclipse to get GUI builder - try it now under 2.1 :(
November 18th, 2003
The Eclipse project has announced The Eclipse Visual Editor Projects, which will include extensible reference implementations for SWT and Swing. Unfortunately, the download page for the builds lists Eclipse 2.1.2 as a requirement. Part of the trouble is that GEF doesn’t work under 3.0 yet. So, I could go back to using 2.1. I don’t think I will, though. I like the new stuff in 3.0. I’ve gotten used to hitting ; in the middle of the line and having the ; appear at the end of the line (most of the time).
You can have multiple instances of eclipse on the same box. If you are worried about workspace incompatiblities you can pass an alternate workspace path the the eclipse.exe on startup. Just use batch file that provides an alternate path for you test eclipse installations.
see:Setting a specific location for the workspace with -data
To use the -data command line argument, simply add -data your_workspace_location (for example, -data c:\users\robert\myworkspace) to the Target field in the shortcut properties, or include it explicitly on your command line.
Matt
Actually GEF is working under Eclipse 3.0 just fine. You only needed to alter GEF’s plugin/feature manifest files.
It’s neither EMF nor GEF but the VE code itself make heavy use of internal JDT APIs which have changed in 3.0.