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Pimp My Editor

Kevin Sawicki (Aptana Studio Developer)

Other · Long Talk

Wednesday, 10:10, 50 minutes | Theatre |

Kevin Sawicki

Small customizations to the Eclipse editors can greatly boost both the usability and aesthetic appeal. This talk will focus on how to make small but powerful customizations to the Eclipse editor architecture that will enable you to create highly configurable look and feel changes to your bland old editors.

Some points of focus:

Creating custom folding icons and allow the user to select their foreground and background color choice
Creating custom background schemes for nested languages to have a visual cue for when one language stops and another starts (Think CSS inside HTML)
Creating a "piano key" effect where background colors alternate (similar to table widgets on Mac OS X)
Theming your editors with sharable colorization files
Creating a better user interface for editing colorization settings

Graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology in 2007.