In order to add a new programming language to the ones supported by the OpenOffice.org integration plugin, you will have to develop a small other plugin. This chapter will require some Java skills.
First of all, create a new Eclipse Plugin project using File > New Project and use the following values to fill in the form:
org.openoffice.ide.eclipse.<language>
Plugin ID:
org.openoffice.ide.eclipse.<language>
Class name:
org.openoffice.ide.eclipse.<language>.<Language>Plugin
In the opened editor, go to the "
dependencies" page and add the
org.openoffice.ide.eclipse.core
plugin to the dependencies. In order to fit the other
plugins, rename the src
folder into source
. In order
to have a short directory name, rename you project
directory in <language>
using your preferred file browser.
Now you are ready to add a new language in your
freshly created plugin. Therefore go to the
"extensions
" page and add a new
org.openoffice.ide.eclipse.core.language
extension.
Now right click on it and select language to add a
language item to configure. Change the name into the
language name to print in the plugin dialogs (e.g.:
"Java", "C++" or "Python"). Then click on the
"class"
link to create a new class implementing the
ILanguage
interface -
this class could be named Language. Now you will have
to fill in the class methods. You can get some help on
each method in the plugin API reference.
There are several ways to package your language
plugin. The best one is to integrate it in the global
plugin build chain. For this, checkout the other
project from the CVS: they are named
"core
",
"java
" and
"build
". Now follow these
instructions to make your plugin to be build with the
others.
Create a build
directory
Copy the content of the
build
directory
from the java
plugin
Replace java
by your language in all the copied files
Change the version in the
build/build.properties
file
Add an ant call to your
build.xml
file
in the build project's
build.xml
file
like this:
<ant dir="language/build/" inheritall="false" target="clean" />
Now, you will be able to build all the plugins by running the build project ant file.