[ide-dev] a "Preview" view anywhere in Eclipse IDE?

[Mickael Istria <mistria@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

I've got a few use-cases recently for a "Preview" view in the Eclipse IDE, which would allow to show a preview of the "rendered" file as one type. Some potential use-cases:

* TextMate grammar result

* HTML edition

* SVG edition

* Java dialogs and so on (a bit like what WindowBuilder is able to show from Java code introspection)

* GEF EditPart

* ...whatever can be rendered...

I imagine it a bit like the Outline view, except that the idea is to call it "Preview" and keep Outline dedicated to navigation.

Is anyone aware of an Eclipse project already providing a similar view we could reuse? Would it be welcome to host such a view in Platform UI?

Cheers,

Mickael