Michael A. Miller wrote:
> I've noticed that this newsgroup has almost become
> comp.lang.idl-workbench lately. Now I haven't taken the dive
> into IDL 7.x yet, so I have nothing substantial to contribute,
> but I wonder it anyone is using the eclipse docs to solve the
> workbench problems.
>
> The IDL workbench seems to always be referred to as the "IDL
> workbench" - is that because it is so heavily modified that it is
> no longer recognizable as the eclipse workbench? One reason I'm
> considering looking at IDL 7 is that eclipse might looks like it
> might be a good multi-platform and multi-language tool, but if
> the workbench is that different, I'm not sure it is worth trying
> to teach my old emacs-brain new tricks for just one language.
>
> So I'm curious - has anyone had success with understanding the
> workbench using eclipse do***entation? If students (without
> years of emacs-damaged reflexes) already have eclipse experience
> when they start with IDL, will it help them?
Most of the main concepts and terminology of the Eclipse platform are
used by the IDL Workbench: everything is in a project, perspectives,
views, etc.
Note that it is possible to run the IDL plugins in a standard Eclipse
install i.e. the "FrankenDE". It is also possible to install plugins
made for Eclipse into the IDL Workbench.
Mike
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