Install Instructions
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You might be interested in this animated demo showing how to install and configure the TextUML Toolkit.
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Requirements
- Java 5 or later (Mac OS X users: Eclipse 3.4 does not run on Java 6)
- Eclipse 3.4 or 3.5
Install Eclipse
- If you don't have Eclipse 3.5 (Galileo) or newer, install it from http://eclipse.org/downloads/
- Start Eclipse
Add the TextUML Toolkit update site
- Open the Software Updates dialog (Help > Software Updates...), and select the "Available Software" tab:
- Add the TextUML Toolkit update site: http://abstratt.com/update/
Install the TextUML Toolkit and EclipseGraphviz features
- Now that you have added the TextUML Toolkit update site, select the following features from the TextUML Toolkit update site (see picture below):
- TextUML Front-End feature
- EclipseGraphviz (optional, only needed if you want graphical visualization)
- Push the "Install..." button
Accept to restart Eclipse to make the changes effective.
Further steps for graphical diagram rendering
Diagram rendering is optional. If you decided not to install EclipseGraphviz in the previous step, skip this section.
Download and install Graphviz
If you don't have it yet, download and install Graphviz for your platform.
Note to Windows users: you might need to download and install the "Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable Package (x86)" as mentioned in the Graphviz for Windows download page. From user reports, it seems XP usually requires that package to be installed, while Vista does not.
Configure EclipseGraphviz
Once Graphviz is installed, you need to tell EclipseGraphviz where to find it. Open the Graphviz preference page (shown below) and enter the location for the dot executable.
How are diagrams rendered?
EclipseGraphviz provides an "Image Viewer" view that will show a rendered class diagram whenever a .uml file is selected or a TextUML Viewer editor is currently selected. To open the Image Viewer, go Window > Show view > Other... > EclipseGraphviz > Image viewer.
