Skip to main content
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] [List Home]
Re: [e4-dev] View in an RCP for working directly with the file system
Hi Tamar,

It might be worth looking at/contacting the TM project. They are specialized in exposing local and remote file systems [1].

[1] http://www.eclipse.org/tm/

Cheers,

Wim



On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 8:07 PM, Cohen, Tamar (ARC-TI)[Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies Inc. (SGT Inc.)] <tamar.e.cohen@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Tom --

very good, thanks for the prompt response -- I'll go ahead and roll my own.  I'll see also if I can (finally) become a committer and contribute it back!

Tamar

On Nov 13, 2013, at 1:11 AM, Tom Schindl <tom.schindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
 wrote:

> Hi Tamar,
>
> As of now bare bone e4 does not have anything related to:
> a) editors
> b) filesystem views like Common Navigator
>
> Since NIO2 the Java-File-API has been greatly improved one could think
> about working directly with this API instead of going through
> core.resources. IIRC there John told me sometime ago that some one
> ported the core.resources API to work with the Java one but I could be
> wrong in this regard.
>
> Generally speaking I agree that the Eclipse Resource System with it's
> project structure does not make a whole lot of sense in most RCP apps
> but it might make much more sense to directly work with the filesystem APIs.
>
> Tom
>
> On 13.11.13 00:25, Cohen, Tamar (ARC-TI)[Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies
> Inc. (SGT Inc.)] wrote:
>> Hi e4-dev,
>>
>> Please let me know if there is a better newsgroup to post to.
>>
>> I am working on an e4 based RCP application and as part of it I want to provide the ability to create new files of my file type, and edit them with my editor.  In the past, we have had to use Eclipse Resources (create eclipse projects and the like).
>>
>> I am wondering if we have addressed this yet in e4?  I read about the Semantic File System stuff (which seems very cool and SHOULD have really been invented before Curiosity went to Mars …) but I think that there should be baked in support for having a view that reflects the file system (even if it's not always in sync and has a refresh button).
>>
>> Am I missing something?  Is there already such a view or do I have to roll my own?
>>
>> Thanks much
>>
>> Tamar Cohen
>> NASA Ames Research Center
>> _______________________________________________
>> e4-dev mailing list
>> e4-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
>> https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/e4-dev
>>
>
> _______________________________________________
> e4-dev mailing list
> e4-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/e4-dev

_______________________________________________
e4-dev mailing list
e4-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/e4-dev

Back to the top