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Ekam Eclipse Plugin

Ekam Eclipse Plugin


Ekam now has an Eclipse plugin! As always, all code is at:

http://code.google.com/p/ekam/

A story

So, let me start with a story. A little earlier today, I was making a small edit to Ekam. I made a change, saved the file, then saw an error marker (a red squiggly underline) appear on the line of code I had just written. I hovered over it and a tooltip popped up describing a compiler error. I figured out what the problem was, edited another file to fix it, and saved that. The error marker in the first file immediately went away.

It wasnt until several moments later than I realized that Eclipses CDT (C++ developer tools) does not actually mark errors like this in real time. Normally you have to run a build first, and let Eclipse collect errors from the build output. Its normally only in Java that you get such fast feedback as you type.

What had actually happened here is that when I saved the file, Ekam immediately built it, then it sent the error info to my Ekam Eclipse plugin, which in turn marked the error in my editor. This was the first time I had actually edited Ekam code with the new plugin active. It literally took less than a minute for the plugin to start saving me time, and I didnt even notice until after the fact because the process seemed to natural.

As soon as I realized what had just happened, I started squealing with delight.

Features

Heres what the plugin does so far:

  • Connects to a running Ekam process in continuous-build mode.
  • Individual build actions are displayed in a tree view, corresponding to the source tree.
  • Output from each action is shown and errors in GCC format can be clicked to browse to the location of the error in the source code.
  • Errors are also actively marked using Eclipse "markers", meaning you get the squiggly red underline in your text editor.
  • Passing tests have a big green icon while failures (whether tests or compiles) have a big red icon (and also cause parent directories to be marked, so you can find problems in a large tree).

UI is Weird

I have very little experience with UI code. One thing Im finding interesting is that when I run my code, I immediately notice obvious UX problems that werent at all obvious when I was imagining things in my head. Little tweaks can make a huge difference. I really have to try things to find out what works.

Time to Apply

Neither Ekam as a whole nor the Eclipse plugin in particular are anywhere near complete. However, I think they are working well enough now that its time to work on something else using Ekam. I could go on adding features that I think are useful forever, but actually trying to use it will tell me exactly what the biggest pain points are. I will then go back and tweak Ekam as needed to facilitate whatever Im working on.

So, next week, I plan to work on Captain Proto, which Ive put off for too long.

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