The IDM Eclipse Plugin was extended in the new version 2 by several functions. With the new IDM Builder Plugin and the new IDM Debugger Plugin it received two powerful extensions. So development with the ISA Dialog Manager in Eclipse becomes a well-rounded thing. Seamlessly integrated tools for the entire development cycle: from creating and editing dialogs and modules, to troubleshooting and troubleshooting, to generating all the files necessary to build the application.
IDM Eclipse Plugin
The new Version 2 The IDM Eclipse plugin received many useful improvements and extensions with the following functions:
- Block statements within rules can be expanded and collapsed
- Pairs of brackets that belong together are marked
- Automatic completion of language constructs of the IDM rule language via syntax templates
- Code templates for annotations as well as the creation or overwriting of rules and methods
- Automatic insertion of imports for exported objects from modules in the project
- IDM-specific search with specialization by element type and restriction to specific occurrences
- An import hierarchy view with all imported and importing modules
- Application starter with support for all major IDM launch options for logging, tracing, code pages and variant resources
- Integration of the IDM documentation into the Eclipse help system and the context-sensitive help as tooltips as well as into the Help View
- Full integration with the new IDM Builder Plugin and the new IDM Debugger Plugin
IDM Builder Plugin !!! NEW !!!
Optimized, automatic build with detailed configuration options and semantic error analysis.
- Automatic generation of interfaces, binary files and all files for connecting C/C++ and COBOL applications
- Optimized build with comparison of the file content, targets are only rebuilt in case of actual changes
- Detailed configuration options at workspace, project, directory and file level
- IDM Build Console to display all commands, warnings and errors
- Semantic error analysis during build and display of errors in Problems View and Editor
- Support for the new import via use and compile commands
IDM Debugger Plugin !!! NEW !!!
IDM debugger integrated into Eclipse with extensive functionality.
- Breakpoints and watchpoints with conditions
- View and change variable values in the filterable Variables View
- Expressions View for observing expressions and ad-hoc evaluation of expressions
- Skipping instructions
- Code changes during debugging
- Attaching - linking to a running application
- Tooltips for displaying attribute and variable values
A detailled description of the plugins IDM Eclipse Plugin, IDM Builder Plugin and IDM Debugger Plugin with short introduction videos is available on our website,
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