Taming Vortex

Today I finally added Vortex to the eclipseplugincentral.com site. Bit shame on me, because eclipseplugincentral.com is Eclipse's official site to post pugins on, and might have been done much sooner. Anyway you can find there almost all plugins ever done for Eclipse. We really hope that this brings us little bit more attention, and spreads out Puakma technology all around the world [-;

You can find site about Vortex at the address http://www.eclipseplugincentral.com/Web_Links-index-req-viewlink-cid-675.html. So check it out, and please, vote for it.



Vortex 1.1 is also about polishing things, and make them working better. One of the features we wanted to improve the most is the pages editor. The one in 1.0 was pretty much xml editor with some tweaks to be able to handle Tornado tags. But this doesn't work in real world. For the real world you need a little bit more. So thus we adopted Eclipse Web Tools Platform project's HTML editor, and now I'm just beginning to customize to support specific Tornado templates in content assistance (when you press ctrl+space). There is a screenshot of the new editor. Don't be fooled that it fully works right at the moment. We are on the beginning of the way, and as I know Eclipse it knows to be very hard to customize, and it seems  to have almost no documentation, so cross fingers!


So what will this new editor know? It will know how to syntax highlight Tornado tags, HTML, but also JavaScript code and CSS inside your pages. Another new thing is hooking outline, so you will see structure of the file. You can see the outline on the left side on the top. Also new will be snippets which will contain some very useful pieces of code. Also there will be available editor of properties of every tag. Content assistance for Tornado tags, HTML, JavaScript, and CSS.



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Hello, I'm Martin Novák, and I talk here about Puakma Technology, Java, Eclipse, and Mac OS X.

I work on Puakma Vortex at webWise Network Consultants Pty Ltd based in Sydney in Australia, but I live now in Madrid in Spain.

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