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OVERVIEW
With Polaris you have the possibility of incorporating speech into programing. Through use of this plugin in Eclipse IDE you can see that not only is it possible to provide an environment for a programing with voice, but that programing with voice it is part of the natural evolution of programming tools. Current version supports simple but powerful commands such as openig search forms, changing workspace, copy and paste code. Efforts on daily basis are made to increase the range of functionality that can be controlled with voice.

PREREQUISITE
Windows OS
Eclipse IDE
Use headphones with microphone, not mandatory, but it will improve speech recognition
Port Number that is setted in Polaris Preference page must not be used by any other application

INSTALLATION INSTRUCTION
Download and extract Polaris.zip

1. When you extract it you will see Polaris_XXX.jar (XXX is version number) and Commander.exe
   Polaris.jar is plugin for Eclipse IDE.
   Commander.exe is speech recognition engine for Polaris.

2. Find installation directory of Eclipse IDE. It is right click on Eclipse icon then choose Open file location. You will see folder with name dropins.

3. Put Polaris_XXX.jar (from extracted folder) inside dropins folder. It should look like this.

4. Start your Eclipse IDE, if you done this right you will see Polaris start and Polaris stop buttons.

5. Inside Eclipse IDE go to Window then Preferences choose Polaris Preferences and set Engine directory to point on previous extracted folder, inside must be Commader.exe.

6. Click on Polaris start button will start plugin.

SUPPORTED COMMANDS

Voice command	Eclipse Action
eclipse task	open task dialog
eclipse search	open search dialog
eclipse skip	skip all breakpoints
eclipse format	format code
eclipse new	open create new dialog
eclipse save	save
eclipse rename	rename
eclipse cut	cut
eclipse copy	copy
eclipse paste	paste
eclipse all	select all
eclipse delete	delete
eclipse close	close
eclipse get	open create getter and setter dialog
eclipse hash	open create hashcode and equals dialog
eclipse string	open generate tostring dialog

ERROR REPORT
Inside Eclipse IDE go to Window then Preferences choose Polaris Preferences. You will see email and file log paths.
Send email with error description and attach log files (it can be that is only one file exist).
You will get answer same day.