Re: [tde-general] Brainstorm Eclipse extension points

[David C. <dc...@ma...>]

On Sunday 18 January 2004 06:25, Samuel ]slund wrote:

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> There is one more good thing about this kind of feature.
> It is a step towards our own handling of testresults, which we will
> probably need, to be able to implement things like colloring failed
> testcases.
>

Yes.  It would also address the issue of "hiding failures" when multiple 
projects are involved.

> I would worry a little about losing the Red/Green vissual effect.

We could always have a green INFO marker (all tests passed), and red PROBLEM 
marker "Test Failed"

> But that could be solved and keeping the state of my workbench would be
> nice. And we probably would be able to use <ctrl>-. <ctrl>-, to navigate
> testfailures just like compile problems.
>
> Is that an extensionpoint? Adding items to the "problems" cathegory in
> the "Tasks" list.

It's not so much an extension point, but there is an API for adding markers, 
and it's possible to provide new marker types (which may be an extension 
point).  There's an entire article on Markers on the Eclipse site.

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David Corbin <dc...@ma...>