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IDL Editors
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IDL Editors
IDL devoted editors:
- Eclipse CORBA Plugin (ECP) (Eclipse plugin)
- Syntax highlighting
- Outline view
- Auto-completion and compiler integration is planned for future releases
- Works with Eclipse 3.2
- MemClipse (Eclipse plugin)
- Syntax highlighting
- Integration with JacORB and JavaIDL compilers
- Works with Eclipse 3.1
- ORB Studio (Eclipse plugin)
- Syntax highlighting
- Integration with the following compilers: Borland Enterprise Server (aka. !VisiBroker), IONA Orbix, Java IDL, JacORB and Open ORB
- Works with Eclipse 3.1
- Requires Java SE 1.5
Any text editor that supports custom syntax highlighting can help to write and to understand IDL interfaces. A full and comprehensive list of editors and features can be found in the Wikipedia.
Some of them are:
- XEmacs
- Native support for .idl files
- Syntax highlighting
- Automatic code folding
- Can invoke compilers or other tools
- Linux and Windows versions
- Vim
- Native support for .idl files
- Syntax highlighting
- Can invoke compilers or other tools
- Linux and Windows versions.
- Notepad++
- Custom syntax highlighting
- Simple code folding
- Simple Auto-completion
- To configure the syntax highlight and auto-completion two files are needed. The syntax configuration attachment:userDefineLang.xml that should be copied to the !ApplicationData directory (the name changes depending on the windows language -in spanish is Datos de Programa) and the idl keywords file attachment:idl.api that should reside in the Notepad++ install directory within the subdirectory plugins\APIs.
- Requires Windows